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Definition[1]
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garga m. N. of an old sage (descendant of Bharad-vāja and Aṅgiras, author of the hymn RV. vi, 47)
• of an astronomer AV. Pariś. (called 'the old one', vṛddha-) MBh. ix, 2132 ff. VarBṛS.
• of a physician
• of a teacher of law
• of a son [Hariv. 1732 BrahmaP.
• or of a grandson VP. MatsyaP. BhP. ix, 21, 1 and 19] of king Vitatha
• a bull L.
• an earth-worm L.
• (in music) a kind of measure
• = -try-aha Vait. xli, 2
• m. pl. (cf. Pāṇ. 2-4, 64) the descendants of Garga Kāṭh. xiii, 12 ĀśvŚr. &c
• (ā), f. N. of a woman Rājat. v, 250
• (ī), f. (for gārgī), N. of the learned woman Vācaknavii ĀśvGṛ.
Source
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Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William
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