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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

sīmāntapūjana (सीमांतपूजन).—n sīmāntapūjā f (S) The honors and courtesies paid at the village-boundary or in the temple to the person coming as bridegroom or as suitor to seek out a wife. 2 The ceremony of visiting the village-bounds by the bārā balutē on the day of new moon of jyēṣṭha.

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

1) Sīmāntapūjana (सीमान्तपूजन):—[=sīmā-nta-pūjana] [from sīmānta > sīmā > sīman] n. the act of honouring a village boundary etc., [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

2) [v.s. ...] doing honour to a bridegroom when he arrives at the village boundary, [Apte’s The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

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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: Pujana, Simanta.

Full-text: Shrimantapujana, Shimvapujana, Angabhuta, Sevati.

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