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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

sthānamāhātmya (स्थानमाहात्म्य).—n (S) Greatness of place; majesty, dignity, nobleness &c. as inherent in or appertaining to any particular place. 2 Influence or virtue of a place; divinity, power, constraining or influential quality, as supposed to inhere in a place and to operate upon persons or things in, on, or at it.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

sthānamahātmya (स्थानमहात्म्य).—n Greatness of place; virtue of a place.

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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

Sthānamāhātmya (स्थानमाहात्म्य).—

1) the greatness or glory of any place.

2) a kind of divine virtue or uncommon sanctity supposed to be inherent in a sacred spot.

Derivable forms: sthānamāhātmyam (स्थानमाहात्म्यम्).

Sthānamāhātmya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sthāna and māhātmya (माहात्म्य).

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

Sthānamāhātmya (स्थानमाहात्म्य).—n.

(-tmyaṃ) The greatness or glory of any place, a kind of divine virtue supposed to be inherent in a sacred spot.

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

Sthānamāhātmya (स्थानमाहात्म्य):—[=sthāna-māhātmya] [from sthāna > sthā] n. the greatness or glory of any place, the divine virtue supposed to be inherent in any sacred spot, [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

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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: Sthana, Mahatmya.

Ends with: Ashtanetrasthanamahatmya, Nilakanthasthanamahatmya, Pratishthanamahatmya, Suvarnasthanamahatmya.

Full-text: Nilakanthasthanamahatmya, Suvarnasthanamahatmya.

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