Yugadideva, Yugādideva, Yugadi-deva: 2 definitions

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Source: archive.org: Anekanta Jaya Pataka of Haribhadra Suri

Yugādideva (युगादिदेव) is another name for Lord Ṛṣabha, as occurring in the Anekāntajayapatākā-prakaraṇa, a Śvetāmbara Jain philosophical work written by Haribhadra Sūri.—[Cf. Vol. I, P. 199, l. 22]—‘Yugādideva’ is the name of Lord Ṛṣabha. He is so called as he is the first God (of the Jainas) in the present avasarpiṇī period.

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[«previous next»] — Yugadideva in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Yugādideva (युगादिदेव):—[=yugādi-deva] [from yugādi > yuga > yuj] m. Name of the Jina Ṛṣabha

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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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