Campa, Campā, Caṃpā, Cāṃpa: 34 definitions

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

Campa (चम्प):—

1) m. a) Bauhinia variegata Lin. (s. kovidāra) [Śabdamālā im Śabdakalpadruma] — b) Nomen proprium eines Sohnes des Pṛthulākṣa (Harita [Bhāgavatapurāṇa]) und Gründers der Stadt Campā [Harivaṃśa 1699.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 445.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 8, 1.] —

2) f. ā Nomen proprium einer Stadt in Aṅga (das heutige Bhāgalpur oder in der Nähe davon gelegen) [Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde I, 143, Nalopākhyāna 1.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 1, 16. 3, 3, 252.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 976.] [Mahābhārata 3, 8141. 8156. 17151. 13, 2376.] [Geschichte des Weda,] [Zur L. u. G. d. W. 60.] [Burnouf 149.] gegründet von Campa [Harivaṃśa 1699.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 445.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 8, 1] (campāpurī). = mālinī [Harivaṃśa 1699.] [Mahābhārata 12, 134. fg.] Residenz Karṇa’s ebend. campādhipa m. Beiname Karṇa’s [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 711.] campeśa desgl. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2. 8, 19.] campāṃ campakamālinīm [Mahābhārata 13, 2359.] lomapādasya nagarīṃ campāṃ campakamālinīm [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 17, 35.] Residenz Brahmadatta's [Lebensbeschreibung Śākyamuni’s 234 (4).] aṅgāḥ = vaṅgāścampopalakṣitāḥ [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 957.] Nach dem gaṇa varaṇādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 2, 82] ist campā nach campā ( = campaka?) benannt.

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Campa (चम्प):—

2) campādhipo muñjaḥ [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 294. 193. fg.]

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Campa (चम्प):—

2) campāyāṃ jāyate brahmā [Spr. (II) 2256.]

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

Campa (चम्प):——

1) m. — a) *Bauhinia variegata. — b) Nomen proprium des Gründers der Stadt Camapā. —

2) f. ā Nomen proprium einer Stadt der Aṅga [Hemacandra's Pariśiṣṭaparvan 4,1,6,22.]

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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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