Suvarnasteya, Suvarṇastēya, Suvarṇasteya, Suvarna-steya: 6 definitions
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Suvarnasteya means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarysuvarṇastēya (सुवर्णस्तेय).—n (S) Stealing of gold. It is accounted amongst the five great crimes.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishsuvarṇastēya (सुवर्णस्तेय).—n Stealing of gold.
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 dictionarySuvarṇasteya (सुवर्णस्तेय).—stealing of gold (one of the five Mahāpātakas q. v.); अत ऊर्ध्वं प्रवक्ष्यामि सुवर्ण- स्तेयनिष्कृतिम् (ata ūrdhvaṃ pravakṣyāmi suvarṇa- steyaniṣkṛtim) Manusmṛti 11.98.
Derivable forms: suvarṇasteyam (सुवर्णस्तेयम्).
Suvarṇasteya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms suvarṇa and steya (स्तेय).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionarySuvarṇasteya (सुवर्णस्तेय).—n.
(-yaṃ) Stealing gold. E. suvarṇa, and steya theft.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySuvarṇasteya (सुवर्णस्तेय):—[=su-varṇa-steya] [from su-varṇa] n. the stealing of gold (one of the 5 Mahā-pātakas or great crimes), [Manu-smṛti xi, 98 etc.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionarySuvarṇasteya (सुवर्णस्तेय):—[suvarṇa-steya] (yaṃ) 1. n. Stealing gold.
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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