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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryVaidūryya (वैदूर्य्य) or Vaidūrya.—n.
(-ryaṃ) A gem of a dark colour, the lapis lazuli. E. vidūra said to be the name of a mountain where the stone is found, or a city where it is polished, and ṣyañ aff.
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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The Garuda Purana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)
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Shukra Niti by Shukracharya (by Benoy Kumar Sarkar)