महापथ

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

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A dictionary, Marathi and English

mahāpatha m S The great road, i.e. death; "the way of all the earth."

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

महा—पथ  f.  m. a principal road, high street (in a city), high road, highway ( ifc. f( आ).), [AitBr.]; [Gaut.]; [Āpast.] &c.

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N. of शिव, [MBh.]
°थं√ या   the long journey, the passage into the next world (, to die), [Kathās.]

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the gr° pilgrimage (to the shrine of शिव on mount केदार, or the same pilg° performed in spirit i.e. by deep absorption into Ś°), [Cat.]
the knowledge of the essence of शिव acquired in this pilg°, [Cat.]
the mountain-precipices from which devotees throw themselves to obtain a speedier entrance into शिव's heaven, ib.
N. of the book which treats of the above subjects
of a hell, [Yājñ.]
महा—पथ  n.  n. = ब्रह्म-रन्ध्र ( q.v.), [Cat.]

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महा—पथ  mfn.  mf( आ)n. having a great path or way, [PārGṛ.]

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Shabda-Sagara

महापथ  m.  ( -थः)
1. The principal path or entrance to a town or house. &c., a main road, a highway.
2. The end of life, the way of all flesh.
3. Name of certain precipices from which people used to throw themselves to obtain entrance into heaven.
E. महा chief, पथ road.

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संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) WN

noun  एकः ग्रन्थः ।   Ex. महापथस्य उल्लेखः कोशे वर्तते