Alternative spellings of this word include Mandochcha.

In Hinduism

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wikibooks (hi): Sanskrit Technical Terms

Mandocca (मन्दोच्च).—Apogee or aphelion of a planet. Note: Mandocca is a Sanskrit technical term used in ancient Indian sciences such as Astronomy, Mathematics and Geometry.

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

mandōcca (मंदोच्च).—n m S The higher apsis of a planet's orbit, the aphelion. Opp. to śīghrōcca Perihelion.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Mandocca (मन्दोच्च).—the upper apsis of the course of a planet.

Derivable forms: mandoccaḥ (मन्दोच्चः).

Mandocca is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms manda and ucca (उच्च).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Mandocca (मन्दोच्च):—[from manda > mad] m. the upper apsis of the course of a planet, [Sūryasiddhānta]

[Sanskrit to German]

Mandocca in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Ucca, Manda, Manta.

Starts with: Mandoccakarna, Mandoccaphala.

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