Yajnikadeva, Yājñikadeva: 4 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Yājñikadeva (याज्ञिकदेव) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—also devayājñaka or śrīdeva or simply deva son of Mahādeva (Prajāpati), son of Gaṅgādhara, son of Kehladeva, son of Devaśūra, son of Svardeva. He was the elder brother of Lakṣmīdhara, and father of Maharṣi and Udaya (W. p. 53): Iṣṭakāpūraṇabhāṣya. Kātyāyanaśrautasūtrabhāṣya. Kātyāyanaśrautasūtrapaddhati, called also Yājñikavallabhā, Śrautasmāraṇakarmapaddhati.
—[commentary] on Kātyāyana’s Vājasaneyisaṃhitānukramaṇikā. Snānavidhipaddhati. Smṛtisāra. Uttarakriyāpaddhati. Peters. 3, 386. Darśapūrṇamāsapaddhati. Bhk. 11. Bhr. 528. Nirūḍhapaśubandhapaddhati. W. p. 51. Bhk. 11. Vāstupūjanapaddhati. Bp. 261. Sautrāmaṇīpaddhati. Ben. 15.

2) Yājñikadeva (याज्ञिकदेव):—son of Mahādeva: Smṛtisārasaṃgraha. Dāhādikarmakartṛnirṇaya. Śrāddhakrama.

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

Yājñikadeva (याज्ञिकदेव):—[=yājñika-deva] [from yājñika > yāj] m. Name of the author of a [commentator or commentary] on [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra] etc. (he is also named deva-yājñika or śrī-deva or deva), [Catalogue(s)]

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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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