Prasritaja, Prasṛtaja, Prasrita-ja: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Prasṛtaja can be transliterated into English as Prasrtaja or Prasritaja, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPrasṛtaja (प्रसृतज).—a particular class of sons, an adulterine (kuṇḍagolakarūpa); आत्मा पुत्रश्च विज्ञेयस्तस्यानन्तरजश्च यः । निरुक्तजश्च विज्ञेयः सुतः प्रसृतजस्तथा (ātmā putraśca vijñeyastasyānantarajaśca yaḥ | niruktajaśca vijñeyaḥ sutaḥ prasṛtajastathā) || Mahābhārata (Bombay) 13.49.3.
Derivable forms: prasṛtajaḥ (प्रसृतजः).
Prasṛtaja is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms prasṛta and ja (ज).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPrasṛtaja (प्रसृतज).—m.
(-jaḥ) A son born in adultery.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPrasṛtaja (प्रसृतज):—[=pra-sṛta-ja] [from pra-sṛta > pra-sṛ] m. Name of a [particular] class of sons, [Mahābhārata]
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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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