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The corpus record — Sanskrit

mahāpatha

mahāpatha m. a principal road, high street (in a city), high road, highway ( ifc. f(ā). ), AitBr. ; Gaut. ; Āpast. &c.

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Where it lives

  • Chandogya Upanisad 4 · 0.85/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. mahāpatha

mahāpatha m. a principal road, high street (in a city), high road, highway ( ifc. f(ā). ), AitBr. ; Gaut. ; Āpast. &c.

2. mahāpatha

the gr˚ pilgrimage (to the shrine of Śiva on mount Kedāra , or the same pilg˚ performed in spirit i.e. by deep absorption into Ś˚ ), Cat.

3. mahāpatha

the mountain-precipices from which devotees throw themselves to obtain a speedier entrance into Śiva 's heaven, ib.

In the wild

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.