Kriyashakti, Kṛyāśakti, Kriya-shakti, Kriyāśakti, Kriyasakte: 12 definitions

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Kriyashakti has 11 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit terms Kṛyāśakti and Kriyāśakti can be transliterated into English as Kryasakti or Kriyashakti or Kriyasakti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Kriyāśakti (क्रियाशक्ति):—[(kri + śa)] f. die Fähigkeit Etwas zu verrichten (Gegens. vijñānaśakti) so v. a. karmendriya [Oxforder Handschriften 225,a,1 v. u. b,2.] eine in Handlungen sich äussernde übernatürliche Macht (Gegens. dhīśakti): kriyāśaktirekāpi trividhopacaryate manojavitvaṃ kāmarūpitvaṃ vikramaṇadharmitvaṃ ceti [SARVADARŚANAS. 76, 11. fgg.]

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

Kriyāśakti (क्रियाशक्ति):—f.

1) die Fähigkeit Etwas zu verrichten. Pl. so v.a. karmendriya. —

2) eine in Handlungen sich äussernde übernatürliche Macht.

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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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