अग्रह

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

AGRAHA   The name of an Agni, a son of the Agni named Bhānu. Bhānu married Suprajā, daughter of the sun and Agraha was one of the six children born to them. In the Cāturmāsikayajña Agraha receives eight kinds of havis (Oblations). [M.B., Vana Parva, Chapter 221] .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

अ-ग्रह  mfn.  mfn. = मुख्य (Comm.), [MBh. iii, 14189]; [BR.] propose to read अग्र-ह, destroying the best part

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(also) where no ladleful is drawn, [ĀpŚr.]
अ-ग्रह  m.  m. non acceptance, a houseless man i.e. a वानप्रस्थ, a Brāhman of the third class, [L.]

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The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

अग्रह [agraha] a.  a. Without any escort, retinue etc. A vānaprastha etc.

Shabda-Sagara

अग्रह  m.  ( -हः) An anchorite, a man who has retired from the world.
E. अ neg. and ग्रह a house, being no loger householder.

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