Arkapushpa, Arkapuṣpa, Arka-pushpa: 7 definitions
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Arkapushpa has 5 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Arkapuṣpa can be transliterated into English as Arkapuspa or Arkapushpa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchArkapuṣpa (अर्कपुष्प):—(a + pu)
1) n. [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 46.] —
2) f. ṣpī Name einer Pflanze (kuṭumbinī), [BHĀVAPRAKĀŚA im Śabdakalpadruma] [Suśruta 1, 378, 14.]
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Arkapuṣpa (अर्कपुष्प):—
1) n. Name eines Sāman [Weber’s Indische Studien.3,203,b.] arkapuṣpādya n. und arkapuṣpottara n. desgl. ebend.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungArkapuṣpa (अर्कपुष्प):—n. —
1) Blüthe der Calotropis gigantea [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 10,3,4,3.5.] —
2) Name eines Sāman.
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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Partial matches: Pushpa, Arka.
Starts with: Arkapushpadya.
Full-text: Arkapushpika, Parijapati.
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