Alternative spellings of this word include Gajachhaya.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

gajachāyā (गजछाया).—f (S) A festival,--the day of new moon of bhādrapada, the sun and moon being in hastanakṣatra.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Gajachāyā (गजछाया).—a portion of time proper for a Śrāddha, time at the eclipse of the sun; [सैंहिकेयो यदा भानुं ग्रसते पर्वसंधिषु । गजच्छाया तु सा प्रोक्ता श्राद्धं तत्र प्रकल्पयेत् (saiṃhikeyo yadā bhānuṃ grasate parvasaṃdhiṣu | gajacchāyā tu sā proktā śrāddhaṃ tatra prakalpayet) ||; गजच्छायायां पूर्वस्यां कुतपे दक्षिणामुखः । यदा भाद्रपदे मासि भवते बहुले मघा (gajacchāyāyāṃ pūrvasyāṃ kutape dakṣiṇāmukhaḥ | yadā bhādrapade māsi bhavate bahule maghā) || Mahābhārata (Bombay) 13.126.36 Y.1.218.

Gajachāyā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms gaja and chāyā (छाया).

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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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Partial matches: Chaya, Gaja.

Full-text: Gajacchaya.

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