Kushavarta, Kuśāvarta: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Kuśāvarta can be transliterated into English as Kusavarta or Kushavarta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchKuśāvarta (कुशावर्त):—(kuśa + āvarta) m. Nomen proprium eines Tīrtha: gaṅgādvāre kuśāvarte vilvake nīlaparvate . tathā kanakhale snātvā dhūtapāpmā divaṃ vrajet .. [Mahābhārata 13, 1700.] kuśāvarta āsīnam [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 20, 4] ([BURNOUF]: au passage du Gange). Personif. ein Sohn Ṛṣabha’s ebend. [5, 4, 10.]
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Kuśāvarta (कुशावर्त):—[Oxforder Handschriften 64,a,39.] = gaṅgādvāra [Scholiast] zu [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 20, 4.] Nomen proprium eines Muni [Oxforder Handschriften 18,b,8.] pl. sein Geschlecht [19,a,22.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungKuśāvarta (कुशावर्त):—m. Nomen proprium —
1) eines Tīrtha [Viṣṇusūtra 85,11.] —
2) eines Sohnes des Ṛṣabha und eines Muni. Pl. sein Geschlecht.
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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