As a Hindi name
पोतज · pota-ja · s.m.
See s.v. pota, pot — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 276
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
produced from a fetus which has no enveloping membrane (opp. to jarāyu-ja)
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
pota—ja mfn. produced from a fetus which has no enveloping membrane (opp. to jarāyu-ja), L.
potaja m. (-jaḥ) An animal that produces young at once without the intervention of any medium; elephants and some other animals being supposed in Hindu physiology to carry the young without the aid of an ovarium or uterus. E. pota young, and jana to bear, aff. ḍa.
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