As a deity name
Name 404 of the Rama Sahasranāma — Padma Purana / Skanda Purana, as taught by Lord Shiva to Goddess Parvati
Name 970 of the Vishnu Sahasranāma — Mahabharata (Anushasana Parva), as taught by Bhishma to Yudhishthira on his deathbed
As a Hindi name
प्रपितामह · noun · masculine
[स्त्री॰ प्रपितामही] · परदादा । दादा का बाप । बाप का दादा · परब्रह्म — Śabdasāgara
प्रपितामह · pra-pitāmaha · s.m.
A paternal great-grandfather — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 239
Cited formation "प्रपितामह" is प्र- + पितामह: पितामह means "paternal grandfather", and the prefix प्र- forms excess, very, forward. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a paternal great-grandfather
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Dictionary citations
pra-pitāmaha m. a paternal great-grandfather, VS.; TS.
(˚maha), AV. &c. &c.
N. of Kṛṣṇa and Brahmā, MBh.
pra-pitāmaha m. pl. great-grandfathers, ancestors, R.; Kathās.
prapitāmaha m. (-haḥ) 1 A paternal great grandfather. 2 A name of BRAHMĀ. f. (-hī) A paternal great grandmother. E. pra preceding, pitāmaha a grandfather.
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