didhiṣūḥ

Dictionary meanings for didhiṣūḥ from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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didhiṣūḥ

Normalized lookup: didhisuh

Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

f. 1 A woman twice married.

2 An unmarried elder sister whose younger sister is married; jyeṣṭhāyāṃ yadyanṛḍhāyāṃ ka- nyāyāmuhyate'nujā. sā cāgrodīdhiṣūrjñeyā pūrvā ca didhiṣūḥ smṛtā... Comp. pa- tiḥ a man who has a sexual inter- course with the widow of his bro- ther (not as a sacred duty but for carnal gratification); bhrāturmṛtasya bhāryā- yāṃ yo'nurajyeta kāmataḥ. dharmeṇāpi niyuktā- yāṃ sa jñeyo...

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