Vrihaspati, Vṛhaspati: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Vṛhaspati can be transliterated into English as Vrhaspati or Vrihaspati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryVṛhaspati (वृहस्पति).—See बृहस्पति (bṛhaspati).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryVṛhaspati (वृहस्पति).—m.
(-tiḥ) 1. The regent of the planet Jupiter, indentified astronomically with the plant: in Mythology, he is the son of Angi- Ras, and preceptor of the gods. 2. The name of a saint and lawgiver. E. vṛhat great, illustrious, (as the deities,) and pati master or Guru, suṭ augment, and the final of the first member rejected; it also occasionally occurs vṛhattāṃpati; or vṛhatyāḥ vācaḥ patiḥ pṛṣo0 ni0 .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryVṛhaspati (वृहस्पति).—see bṛhaspati.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryVṛhaspati (वृहस्पति):—[vṛha-spati] (tiḥ) 2. m. The regent of the planet Jupiter; name of a sage.
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.
Hindi dictionary
Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryVṛhaspati (वृहस्पति):—(nm) see [bṛhaspati; ~vāra] see [bṛhaspativāra].
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Partial matches: Vriha.
Starts with: Vrihaspaticakra, Vrihaspaticakra, Vrihaspatichakra, Vrihaspatigupta, Vrihaspatisuratapriya, Vrihaspativara.
Full-text (+45): Varhaspata, Animishacarya, Varhaspatya, Vrihaspaticakra, Ijya, Giratha, Indrejya, Utathyanuja, Cakshas, Govinda, Gishpati, Girisha, Vacaspati, Bharadvaja, Sthapati, Utathyanujanman, Prakphalguna, Vagdevata, Nitighosha, Devaguru.
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Mahabharata (English) (by Kisari Mohan Ganguli)
The Markandeya Purana (by Frederick Eden Pargiter)
Harivamsha Purana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)
Chapter 25 - An Account of the Birth of the Moon < [Book 1 - Harivamsa Parva]
Chapter 73 - Attributes of Hari < [Book 2 - Vishnu Parva]
Chapter 28 - An Account of Raji and His Sons < [Book 1 - Harivamsa Parva]
The Brihaddharma Purana (abridged) (by Syama Charan Banerji)
Chapter 41 - History of Ganga (continued, 5): Vishnu’s incarnation as Vamana
Chapter 25 - On the Puranas (continued, 5)
The Vishnu Purana (by Horace Hayman Wilson)
Chapter IV - Dynasty of the Moon, An account of Tara, origin of three Fires < [Book IV]
Chapter IX - Battle of Raji and Daityas < [Book IV]
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