Abhimanyu: 18 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Abhimanyu (अभिमन्यु):—(abhi + manyu) m. Nomen proprium

1) ein Sohn des Manu Cākṣuṣa [Harivaṃśa 72.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 98.] —

2) ein Sohn Arjuna's von der Subhadrā [Mahābhārata im Viṣṇupurāṇa 459, Nalopākhyāna 5.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 460.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 9, 7.] —

3) ein König, der Nachfolger von Nāgārjuna (also auch in Verbindung mit einem Arjuna), [Rājataraṅgiṇī 1, 174.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher II, S. XVII. fgg.] [Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde I, 476, Nalopākhyāna II, 889.] [Akademische Vorlesungen 201 - 204.] —

4) ein anderer König von Kāśmīra, ein Sohn Kṣemagupta’s, [Rājataraṅgiṇī 6, 188. 289.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Abhimanyu (अभिमन्यु):—m. Nomen proprium verschiedener Männer [228,18.] parikṣidabhimanyujaḥ [57,11.58,18.] pura n. Nomen proprium einer Stadt. svāmin m. Nomen proprium eines Heiligthums.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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