aṣṭāvakraḥ

Dictionary meanings for aṣṭāvakraḥ from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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aṣṭāvakraḥ

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

[aṣṭakṛtvaḥ aṣṭasu bhāgeṣu vā vakraḥ] N. of a celebrated Brāhmaṇa, son of the great sage Kahoḍa. [Kahoḍa married a daughter of his pre- [Page0207-c+ 59] ceptor Uddālaka, but he was so devot- ed to study that he generally neglected her. When once she was far advanced in pregnancy, the unborn son was provok- ed at his father's neglect of her and re- buked him for his absorption in study to the neglect even of his...

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