Vajaprasaviya, Vājaprasavīya, Vaja-prasaviya: 2 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Vājaprasavīya (वाजप्रसवीय):—[=vāja-prasavīya] [from vāja] mfn. ([Taittirīya-saṃhitā]) beginning with the words vāja and prasava
2) [v.s. ...] n. ([scilicet] karman) a rite so beginning, [Taittirīya-saṃhitā; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa]
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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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Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)
Kāṇḍa IX, adhyāya 3, brāhmaṇa 4 < [Ninth Kāṇḍa]
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Kāṇḍa X, adhyāya 1, brāhmaṇa 5 < [Tenth Kāṇḍa]
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