Kashyapadvipa, Kāśyapadvīpa, Kashyapa-dvipa: 4 definitions
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Kashyapadvipa has 2 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Kāśyapadvīpa can be transliterated into English as Kasyapadvipa or Kashyapadvipa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchKaśyapadvīpa (कश्यपद्वीप):—[(ka + dvīpa)] m. Nomen proprium eines Dvīpa [Mahābhārata 6, 251.] kā ed. Bomb.
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Kāśyapadvīpa (काश्यपद्वीप):—s. u. kaśyapa .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungKaśyapadvīpa (कश्यपद्वीप):—m. Nomen proprium eines Dvīpa. kā v.l.
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Kāśyapadvīpa (काश्यपद्वीप):—m. Nomen proprium eines Dvīpa [Mahābhārata 6,6,]
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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