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मिताहारmitāhāra

मिताहार (mitāhāra) is a Sanskrit word meaning abstaining from excessive food, moderate food or scanty diet, moderate in diet, sparing in diet, a Vanara chief. Its 5 recorded definitions are grouped into 2 contexts, among them Moderation in diet / Moderate food, Proper name (a Vānara chief).

Definitions
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Meanings by context

Moderation in diet / Moderate food

4 definitions
abstaining from excessive food

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

moderate food or scanty diet

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

sparing in diet

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

moderate in diet

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Proper name (a Vānara chief)

1 definition
a Vanara chief

— The Purana Index

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Definitions on this page come from 4 works: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.