The Sanskrit term Saumyakṛcchra can be transliterated into English as Saumyakrcchra or Saumyakricchra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Saumyakrichchhra.

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Saumyakṛcchra (सौम्यकृच्छ्र).—a kind of religious penance; पिण्याकाचामतक्राम्बुसक्तूनां प्रतिवासरम् । एकरात्रोपवासश्च कृच्छ्रः सौम्योऽयमुच्यते (piṇyākācāmatakrāmbusaktūnāṃ prativāsaram | ekarātropavāsaśca kṛcchraḥ saumyo'yamucyate) || Y.3.321.

Derivable forms: saumyakṛcchraḥ (सौम्यकृच्छ्रः), saumyakṛcchram (सौम्यकृच्छ्रम्).

Saumyakṛcchra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms saumya and kṛcchra (कृच्छ्र).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saumyakṛcchra (सौम्यकृच्छ्र).—mn.

(-cchraḥ-cchraṃ) A religious penance, subsisting for five days, severally, on sesamum after expression, the water of boiled-rice, butter-milk mixed with water, water, and parched grain, and fasting on the sixth day. E. saumya relating to the moon, kṛcchra penance.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saumyakṛcchra (सौम्यकृच्छ्र).—n. a kind of penance.

Saumyakṛcchra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms saumya and kṛcchra (कृच्छ्र).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saumyakṛcchra (सौम्यकृच्छ्र):—[=saumya-kṛcchra] [from saumya > sauma] m. n. a kind of penance (described as subsisting for 5 days, severally, on sesamum, water of boiled rice, butter-milk water parched grain, and fasting on the 6th day), [Horace H. Wilson]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Kricchra, Saumya.

Full-text: Saumya.

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