Varmahara, Varman-hara: 4 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Varmahara (वर्महर).—a.

1) wearing armour.

2) old enough to wear armour (i. e. to take part in battle); सम्यग्वि- नीतमथ वर्महरं कुमारम् (samyagvi- nītamatha varmaharaṃ kumāram) R.8.94.

Varmahara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms varman and hara (हर).

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

1) Varmahara (वर्महर):—[=varma-hara] [from varma > varman] mfn. wearing armour or mail, being young or of a military age, [Raghuvaṃśa] : [Kathāsaritsāgara] (cf. kavaca-h)

2) [v.s. ...] one who bears arms or despoils another of them, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Varmahara (वर्महर):—[varma-hara] (raḥ) 1. m. Who takes armour.

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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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