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prajāpatiḥ

prajāpati (jā), m. ‘lord of creatures’, N. of Savitṛ , Soma , Agni , Indra &c., RV. ; AV.

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1. prajāpati

prajāpati (jā), m. ‘lord of creatures’, N. of Savitṛ , Soma , Agni , Indra &c., RV. ; AV.

2. prajāpati

(jā) a divinity presiding over procreation, protector of life, ib. ; VS. ; Mn. ; Suśr. ; BhP.

3. prajāpati

(jā) lord of creatures, creator, RV. &c. &c. ( N. of a supreme god above or among the Vedic deities [ RV. (only x, 21, 10 ); AV. ; VS. ; Br. ] but in later times also applied to Viṣṇu , Śiva , Time personified, the sun, fire, &c., and to various progenitors, esp. to the 10 lords of creat

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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.