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मृतपा (mRtapA)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
मृतपा
m.
(-पाः) A man of the lowest caste, who for a subsistence coll-
ects dead men's clothes
conveys dead bodies to the river side to
be burnt
executes criminals, &c.
E.
मृत, and पा who cherishes.
Yates
English
मृत-पा (पा) 1.
m.
A
Jack ketch.
Wilson
English
मृतपा
m.
(-पाः) A man of the lowest caste, who for a subsistence
collects dead men's clothes
conveys dead bodies to the river side to be burnt
executes criminals, &c.
E.
मृत, and पा who cherishes.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
मृत—पा
m.
a person who watches a body, a man of the lowest caste who collects men's clothes or conveys bodies to the river side to be burnt or executes criminals
&c.
,
W.
N.
of an Asura,
MBh.
Mahabharata
English
Mṛtapā, an Asura. § 130 (Aṃśāvat.): I, 67, 2669 (Asurottamaḥ, incarnate as Paścimānūpaka (“the king of the western shore”?)). Cf. Amṛtapa.