Uparishtadbrihati, Upariṣṭādbṛhatī, Uparishtat-brihati: 4 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Upariṣṭādbṛhatī can be transliterated into English as Uparistadbrhati or Uparishtadbrihati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryUpariṣṭādbṛhatī (उपरिष्टाद्बृहती).—Name of a Vedic metre having four Pādas, the first of which contains 12 syllables, each of the three others having only eight.
Upariṣṭādbṛhatī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms upariṣṭāt and bṛhatī (बृहती).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryUpariṣṭādbṛhatī (उपरिष्टाद्बृहती):—[=upariṣṭād-bṛhatī] [from upariṣṭād > upari] f. Name of a variety of the Bṛhatī (q.v.) metre (having twelve syllables in the last Pāda, and eight syllables in each of the three preceding lines; cf. purastād-bṛ).
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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: Uparishtad, Uparishtat, Brihati.
Full-text: Uparibrihati.
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