Bhavani, Bhavāni, Bhavānī: 20 definitions

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

Bhavānī (भवानी):—(von bhava) f.

1) Name einer Göttin (vgl. bhava 1, f.), die später mit der Pārvatī, der Gemahlin Śiva’s, identificirt wird, [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 49.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 4, 23.] [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 1, 32.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 204.] [Halāyudha 1, 15.] bha, śarvāṇī, rudrāṇī, īśānānī, āgnāyī [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 4, 19, 5.] [Pāraskara’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 3, 8.] śivaḥ bhavānyā saha [Harivaṃśa 14834.] [Kumārasaṃbhava.7,84.] [Meghadūta 37. 45.] [Kathāsaritsāgara.1,14. 22,88. 50,124.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa.3,23,1.4,4,2.5,17,16.] [Oxforder Handschriften 39,b,2] (in Sthāneśvara verehrt). [81,a,3. 149,b,36. 249,b,34. 285,a,2.] kavaca und śrībhavānīsahasranāmayantra [Böhtlingk’s Verzeichniss 46.] sahasranāmastotra [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 1330. fgg.] bhavānyaṣṭaka [1339.] —

2) Nomen proprium der Mütter des Scholiasten Ganeśa [Oxforder Handschriften 141,a,22.] der Frau des Bhavanātha [No. 601.] —

3) Nomen proprium eines Flusses [Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde I, 160.]

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

Bhavānī (भवानी):—f. Nomen proprium —

1) einer Göttin , die später mit der Pārvatī , der Gattin Śiva’s identificirt wird. —

2) verschiedener Frauen. —

3) eines Flusses.

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Bhāvanī (भावनी):—f. [Saṃgitasārasaṃgraha 252,18] fehlerhaft bhānavī.

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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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