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gaja meaning in Sanskrit

गज gaja

/ˈɡɑː.d͡ʒə/

gaja in Sanskrit: गज (gaja). In English, gaja means the sacred name for the elephant.

Sanskrit words for gaja

gaja, a chaturanga piece ancestral to the bishop in chess
गज gaja

English meaning of gaja

  1. noun The sacred name for the elephant.
  2. noun A chaturanga piece ancestral to the medieval fil and modern bishop; literally, “elephant”.
  3. noun A fairy piece based on the gaja as used in chaturanga.

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Questions about gaja in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of gaja in Sanskrit?
Gaja in Sanskrit is गज (gaja).
gaja इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Gaja: गज (gaja).
What does gaja mean in English?
Gaja means the sacred name for the elephant.

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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “gaja”: गज. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: gaja (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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