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Sanskrit
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Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Sanskrit प्रत्यागच्छति (pratyāgacchati)
From प्रति- (prati-) + आगच्छति (āgacchati)
Pronunciation
Verb
प्रत्यागच्छति • (pratyāgacchati) third-singular indicative (type P, root प्रत्यागम्)
- to come back again, return
c. 400 BCE,
Mahābhārata 2.66.37:
- यथेच्छन्ति तथैवास्तु प्रत्यागच्छन्तु पाण्डवाः ।
पुनर् द्यूतं प्रकुर्वन्तु मामकाः पाण्डवैः सह ॥- yathecchanti tathaivāstu pratyāgacchantu pāṇḍavāḥ.
punar dyūtaṃ prakurvantu māmakāḥ pāṇḍavaiḥ saha. - The Pandavas may return as they wish and my sons may again gamble with the Pandavas.
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References
- Monier Williams (1899) “प्रत्यागच्छति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 676.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “pratyāgam”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.