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    See also agrahāyaṇaḥ.


    Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 8.
    agrahāyaṇa m. (-ṇaḥ) The name of a month; the eighth of the lunar year of the Hindus, when the moon is full near the head of Orion, or about November-December.

    E. agra and hāyana, year; according to the ancient system, the first month of the Hindu year: also āgrahāyaṇa.

    Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 7, col. 1.
    agra-hāyaṇa (ṇaḥ) 1. m. The name of a
    month, November--December.

    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 15, col. 2.
    agrahāyaṇa Tatpur. m. (-ṇaḥ) A name given to the solar month

    Mārgaśiras or Mārgaśirṣa (q. v.) when the latter was made

    to commence the year; the eighth month of the lunar year

    of the Hindus, when the moon is full near the head of

    Orion, or about November-December. Also written āgra-

    hāyaṇa. (The fem. agrahāyaṇī is a false reading for āgra-

    hāyaṇī q. v.) E. agra and hāyaṇa.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    p. 6, col. 2.
    agra—hāyaṇa m. ‘commencement of the year’, N. of a Hindū month (mārgaśīrṣa, beginning about the 12th of November).

    Śabdasāgara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 7, col. 1.
    agrahāyaṇa

    m. (-ṇaḥ) The name of a month; the eighth of the lunar of
    the Hindus, when the moon is full near the head of Orion, or
    about November-December.

    E. agra and hāyana, year; according to
    the ancient system, the first month of the Hindu year; also
    āgrahāyaṇa.

    Burnouf Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français

    p. 8, col. 2.
    agrahāyaṇa agrahāyaṇa m. (hāyaṇa) le 8e mois de l'année lunaire, novembredécembre.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    vol. 1, p. 41.
    agrahāyaṇa (agra + hāyana)

    1) m. der Anfang des Jahres, Name des Monats Mārgaśīrṣa, ŚABDAR. im ŚKDR.

    — 2) f. °ṇī gaṇa gaurādi v.l.

    — Vgl. āgrahāyaṇa .

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    vol. 1, p. 9, col. 3.
    *agrahāyaṇa m. der Anfang des Jahres , der Monat Mārgaśīrṣa. Vgl. ā°.

    Vācaspatyam

    p. 66, col. 2.
    agrahāyaṇa pu0 agraḥ śreṣṭhaḥ hāyanovrīhiratra ṇatvam .
    mārgaśīrṣe māsi . tasya ca māsānāṃ mārgaśīrṣo'smīti
    gītāyāṃ bhagavadvibhūtirūpatvokteḥ śreṣṭhadhānyavattvācca tathātvam .