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

Grīvā (ग्रीवा):—f. [Die Uṇādi-Affixe 1, 153.] Hinterhals, Nacken [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 2, 39.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 586.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 520.] [Medinīkoṣa v. 6.] Nach den beiden letzten Autorr. auch Nackensehne; [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 12, 2, 4, 10] werden zum Nacken vierzehn Wirbel gezählt, wornach die grīvāḥ bis in die Mitte der Rückengegend reichen. In engerem Sinne von der Gegend der Halswirbel wird es im [Suśruta] (sg.) gebraucht. In älterer Zeit immer pl. [Ṛgveda 10, 163, 2.] [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 5, 22.] yaṃ te de.ī nirṛtirāba.andha.pāśaṃ grī.āsu [12, 65. 20, 8.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6, 134, 1. 9, 7, 3. 10, 2, 4.] [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 1, 25.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 2, 1, 2, 16. 8, 6, 2, 11.] kṛṣṇājinaṃ me grīvāsvābaddham [11, 8, 4, 3.] der Hals am Thierfell [3, 3, 4, 8. 4, 5, 2, 6.] prācīnagrīva [3, 2, 1, 1.] pratīcīna [1, 1, 4, 5.] prāggrīva [ĀŚV. GṚHY. 1, 14.] sg. [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 4, 15, 20.] [GṚHY. 1, 5.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 283.] [Suśruta 1, 255, 19. 21. 340, 11. 19. 341, 10. 342, 15. 350, 13.] urogrīva n. [208, 8.] vakagrīvā Hals [Pañcatantra 52, 8. 9.] (sāraṃgasya) grīvābhaṅga [Śākuntala 7.] grīvābhagna [Vetālapañcaviṃśati 17, 6.] grīvadaghna (sic) [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 5, 6, 8, 3.] Am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā [Mahābhārata 1, 6662] (von einer Kuh). Wann grīva am Ende eines adj. comp. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 2, 114.] Vom Halse eines Gefässes gebraucht [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 47, 37.] — Vgl. грива Mähne, гривьна collare aureum, asitagrīva, ṛkṣa, kambu, kalmāṣa, kṛṣṇa, tuvi, niṣka, nīla, bhagna, maṇi, vi, śiro .

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

Grīva (ग्रीव):——

1) m. — a) = grīvā 2)a) [Ārṣeyabrāhmaṇa] — b) etwa Corridor [Bālarāmāyaṇa 310,16.] —

2) grīvā — a) Hinterhals , Nacken ; die Gegend der Halswirbel. Ak Ende eines adj. Comp. f. ā. — b) Hals eines Gefässes.

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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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