Bhogadeha, Bhoga-deha: 5 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bhogadeha (भोगदेह).—'the body of suffering', the subtle body which a dead person is supposed to carry with him, and with which he experiences happiness or misery according to his good or bad actions.

Derivable forms: bhogadehaḥ (भोगदेहः).

Bhogadeha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bhoga and deha (देह).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bhogadeha (भोगदेह).—m.

(-haḥ) The body which a dead person carries with him.

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

Bhogadeha (भोगदेह):—[=bhoga-deha] [from bhoga] m. ‘the body of feeling’ (the intermediate body which a dead person acquires through the Śrāddha after cremation, and with which, according to his works, he either enjoys happiness or suffers misery cf. adhiṣṭhāna-d, sambhogakāya), [Religious Thought and Life in India 28, 292; Monier-Williams’ Buddhism 247.]

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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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