Pithasarpa, Pīṭhasarpa, Pitha-sarpa: 6 definitions
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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPīṭhasarpa (पीठसर्�).�a. lame, crippled; Manusmṛti 8.394; कर्तव्ये पुरुषव्याघ्र किमास्से पीठसर्पवत् (kartavye puruṣavyāghra kimāsse īṻsarpavat) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 3.35.22.
Pīṭhasarpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms īṻ and sarpa (सर्प).
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryPīṭhasarpa (पीठसर्�).—[īṻ-sarpa], i.e. īṻ-sṛp + a, adj. sbst. Lame, a cripple (cf. īṻga), Mahābhārata 3, 1397.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryPīṭhasarpa (पीठसर्�).—[adjective] moving with the help of a board, i.e. lame; [masculine] cripple.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPīṭhasarpa (पीठसर्�):—[=īṻ-sarpa] [from īṻ] ([Mahābhārata; Nīlakaṇṭha]‘a boa�),
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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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