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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Tallaja.—(SII 1), excellent. Note: tallaja is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Tallaja (तल्लज).—

1) Excellence, superiority, happiness.

2) (At the end of comp.) Excellent (in this sense the word is always masculine, whatever be the gender of the first member of the compound); गोतल्लजः (gotallajaḥ) 'an excellent cow'; so कुमारीतल्लजः (kumārītallajaḥ) 'an excellent maiden'.

Derivable forms: tallajaḥ (तल्लजः).

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

Tallaja (तल्लज).—m.

(-jaḥ) Excellence, happiness; also attributively, Excellent, happy: used in apposition as an epithet, the gender is not changed, as kumārītallajaḥ an excelent maiden. E. tat that, (that which is every thing,) and laj to attain, affix ac . tat prasiddhaṃ yathā tathā lajati laja kāntau ac . praśaste .

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

1) Tallaja (तल्लज):—m. ifc. an excellent specimen of. e.g. kumārī-, ‘an excellent maiden’ [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc. [Scholiast or Commentator]]

2) cf. go-

3) matallikā.

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

Tallaja (तल्लज):—[talla-ja] (jaḥ) 1. m. Excellence; happiness. a. Excellent; happy.

[Sanskrit to German]

Tallaja in German

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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

Tallaja (ತಲ್ಲಜ):—[noun] an excellent, superior man.

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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: Talla, Ja.

Ends with: Gotallaja.

Full-text: Gotallaja, Matallika.

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