The Sanskrit term Yajñarātakṣetra can be transliterated into English as Yajnarataksetra or Yajnaratakshetra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

India history and geography

Source: archive.org: Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions

Yajñarātakṣetra (यज्ञरातक्षेत्र) or Yajñarāta is a place-name classified as a kṣetra and mentioned in the Gupta inscription No. 52. The Gupta empire (r. 3rd-century CE), founded by Śrī Gupta, covered much of ancient India and embraced the Dharmic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Yajñarātakṣetra means the field of Yajñarāta. Yajña means sacrifice or worship and rāta means ‘given’ presented, bestowed’. The whole will literally mean ‘given by Yajña’. The field may be a place of worship or sacrifice. Because of the performance of Yajña on a certain occasion the field came to be so named as if it was a permanent place of sacrifice or the field might have been named after a person ‘Yajñarāta’.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Partial matches: Kshetra, Yajnarata.

Full-text: Yajnarata.

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