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

Vāgapahāraka (वागपहारक).—m.

(-kaḥ) 1. A stealer of books. 2. A reader of prohibited works or passages. E. vāk speech, apahāraka seizer, stealer.

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

Vāgapahāraka (वागपहारक).—[masculine] stealer of (another’s) words or of the Word, i.e. the Veda.

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

Vāgapahāraka (वागपहारक):—[=vāg-apahāraka] [from vāg > vāc] mfn. ‘word-stealer’, one who appropriates to himself what has been spoken or written by others, a reader of prohibited works or passages, [Manu-smṛti; Yājñavalkya]

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

Vāgapahāraka (वागपहारक):—[vāga+pahāraka] (kaḥ) 1. m. A stealer of books; reader of prohibited works.

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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: Apaharaka, Vac.

Full-text: Apaharaka, Maukya, Apaharin.

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