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Since the order of the parts of the name are glory then love, whats the possibility of the name meaning 'glory of love' or in Sanskrit is it usually backwards.
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Sorry, forgot to mention the word order is the usual one in this context. The usual rule for compound nouns in Sanskrit is that the main word comes last: i.e. adjective before noun, object before action, etc. Stated another way jaspreet must either be a kind of preet (or its negation etc.), or related more closely (or equally closely if it were a conjunctive compound) to preet than to jas. In the rare cases where the rule is violated in Sanskrit, the resulting word becomes an `indeclinable' (declinations which mark the grammatical relation of the word in the sentence are suffixes but tend never to attach to non-primary element in a compound), and often act as adverbs of place or time etc., not as nouns.
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