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n. ambrosia or drink that bestows immortality (Hindu mythology); immortality

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Amrit (; IAST: amṛta) is a Sanskrit word that literally means "immortality", and is often referred to in texts as nectar. The word's earliest occurrence is in the Rigveda where it is one of several synonyms of soma, the drink which confers immortality upon the gods. It is related etymologically to the Greek ambrosia, and it carries the same meaning. It has various significances in different Dharmic Traditions. "Amrit" is also a common Hindu first name for men; the feminine is "Amritā".

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Immortality; also, the nectar conferring immortality.
Ambrosial; immortal.

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[Hindu] In old-Indian (Hindu) mythology, the drink of the gods which gives (and sustains) immortality. Possibly the origin of the later Greek Ambrosia.

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Amrita amrita (Sanskrit) [from a not + mrita dead from the verbal root mri to die] Immortality; the water of life or immortality, the ambrosial drink or spiritual food of the gods. According to the Puranas, Ramayana, and Mahabharata, amrita is the elixir of life produced during the contest between the devas and asuras when churning the "milky sea" (the waters of life). It has been stolen many times, but as often recovered, and it "is still preserved carefully in devaloka" (Pur E 32).

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