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Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English Translation

Saumyavāra (सौम्यवार) refers to “wednesday”, as defined in the Śivapurāṇa 1.14. Accordingly, “it is said that the respective merits of the different days [viz., Saumyavāra, ‘wednesday’] are secured through the gratification of the gods. [...] The repetition of the mantras of the favourite deity accords the respective benefits of the day of the week. [...] The scholarly devotee shall worship Viṣṇu with curd-rice on Wednesday (Saumyavāra). Sons, friends, womenfolk etc. will always be well-nourished for ever”.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

saumyavāra (सौम्यवार).—& saumyavāsara m (S Day of Mercury.)Wednesday.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

saumyavāra (सौम्यवार) [-vāsara, -वासर].—m Wednesday.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Saumyavāra (सौम्यवार).—Wednesday.

Derivable forms: saumyavāraḥ (सौम्यवारः).

Saumyavāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms saumya and vāra (वार). See also (synonyms): saumyavāsara.

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

Saumyavāra (सौम्यवार).—m.

(-raḥ) Wednesday; also saumyavāsara.

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

Saumyavāra (सौम्यवार):—[=saumya-vāra] [from saumya > sauma] m. ‘Mercury’s day’, Wednesday, [ib.]

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Saumyavāra (ಸೌಮ್ಯವಾರ):—[noun] Wednesday, the fourth day of the week.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Vara, Saumya.

Full-text: Saumyavasara.

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