Somayana, Somāyana, Soma-ayana: 2 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySomāyana (सोमायन).—a kind of penance; cf. चान्द्रायण (cāndrāyaṇa).
Derivable forms: somāyanam (सोमायनम्).
Somāyana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms soma and ayana (अयन).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySomāyana (सोमायन):—[from soma] n. a kind of penance, [Yājñavalkya [Scholiast or Commentator]] (cf. cāndrāyaṇa).
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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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
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