Kutashalmali, Kūṭaśālmali, Kuta-shalmali: 11 definitions

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Kutashalmali has 9 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit term Kūṭaśālmali can be transliterated into English as Kutasalmali or Kutashalmali, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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[«previous next»] — Kutashalmali in Sanskrit glossary

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

Kūṭaśālmali (कूटशाल्मलि):—(1. kūṭa [10.] + śā) m. f., f. und lika eine mythische Baumwollenstaude mit scharfen Dornen, mit der die Verbrecher in Yama's Welt gemartert werden: nadī vaitaraṇī caiva kūṭaśālmalinā saha [Mahābhārata 18, 84.] ayaḥśaṅkucitāṃ rakṣaḥ śataghnīmatha śatrave . hṛtāṃ vaivasvatasyeva kūṭaśālmalimakṣipat .. [Raghuvaṃśa 12, 95.] asipatravanaṃ ghoraṃ vālukāṃ kūṭaśālmalīm . etānyanyāśca vahvīḥ sa yamasya viṣayaṃ gataḥ .. yātanāḥ prāpya tatrogrāḥ [Mahābhārata 13, 5491.] tato raktajalaṃ ghoraṃ lohitaṃ nāma sāgaram . gatvā drakṣyatha tāṃ caiva vṛhatīṃ kūṭaśālmalīm .. [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 40, 39.] kūṭaśālmalikaṃ cāpi duḥsparśaṃ tīkṣṇakaṇṭakam . dadarśa cāpi kaunteyo yātanāḥ pāpakarmiṇām .. [Mahābhārata 18, 51.] Nach [Amarakoṣa 2, 4, 2, 27] und [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 256] ist kūṭaśālmali eine Varietät der Baumwollenstaude.

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Kūṭaśālmali (कूटशाल्मलि):—Name einer Hölle [Oxforder Handschriften 16,b,25.]

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

Kūṭaśālmali (कूटशाल्मलि):—m. f.

1) *Andersonia Rohitaka [Rājan 8,14.] —

2) eine mythische Baumwollenstaude mit scharfe Dornen , mit der Verbrecher in Yama’s Welt gemartert werden , und eine Hölle mit diesen Martern. auch f. und lika m.

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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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