Taptasurakunda, Taptasurākuṇḍa, Tapta-surakunda: 4 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Taptasurākuṇḍa (तप्तसुराकुण्ड).—Name of different hells.

Derivable forms: taptasurākuṇḍam (तप्तसुराकुण्डम्).

Taptasurākuṇḍa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms tapta and surākuṇḍa (सुराकुण्ड). See also (synonyms): taptaloha, taptavāluka, taptaśūrmikuṇḍa, taptasūrmi.

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

Taptasurākuṇḍa (तप्तसुराकुण्ड):—[=tapta-surā-kuṇḍa] [from tapta > tap] m. ‘jar or hole filled with burning spirituous liquor’, Name of, a hell, [Brahma-purāṇa]

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Taptasurakunda 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.

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