پراجاپتیہ

ूाजापत्य prājā-patya, adj. & s.m. Belonging to, or relating to, or derived from Prajā-pati;—a form of marriage in which the bride is presented respectfully to the bridegroom by her father; a particular festival on the eighth day of the second half of the month Paush; a particular sacrifice performed before appointing a daughter to raise issue in default of male heirs; a kind of penance (which consists in eating but once a day, in the morning, for three consecutive days, then once in the night for three nights, then subsisting for three days on food given as alms, and then fasting three days more); the confluence of the Ganges and Jamna, Prayāg or Allahabad; the asterism Rohinī.