Kshepaka, Kṣepaka: 12 definitions
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Kshepaka has 10 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Kṣepaka can be transliterated into English as Ksepaka or Kshepaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Kshepak.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchKṣepaka (क्षेपक):—(wie eben)
1) adj. a) schleudernd, werfend [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 1, 94,] [Scholiast] — b) eingeschoben, interpolirt [Scholiast] zu [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 96.] —
2) m. a) = kṣepa [9.] [Algebra 113.] — b) Nomen proprium eines Fürsten (v. l. für kṣemaka) [Vāyupurāṇa] in [Viṣṇupurāṇa 462, Nalopākhyāna 23.]
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Kṣepaka (क्षेपक):—
1) a) jale gnikṣepakaḥ [Kathāsaritsāgara 61, 9.] — b) [Scholiast] zu [Naiṣadhacarita 22,48.] [Oxforder Handschriften 184,b,] [No. 419.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungKṣepaka (क्षेपक):——
1) Adj.) — a) schleudernd , werfend. — b) vernichtend [Śaṃkarācārya .zu.Bādarāyaṇa’s Brahmasūtra 4,3,14] (S. 1130 , Z. 1. 2). — c) eingeschoben , interpolirt. —
2) m. — a) *Steuermann. [Galano's Wörterbuch] — b) die hinzuzuaddirende Zahl [Bījagaṇita 46.]
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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