Mahakaruna, Mahākaruṇā: 7 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchMahākaruṇa (महाकरुण):—[(ma + karuṇā)] adj. überaus mitleidig; davon nom. abstr. tā f. [AŚOKĀVAD. 31.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungMahākaruṇa (महाकरुण):——
1) Adj. überaus mitleidig. Nom.abstr. tā f. —
2) f. ā allgemeines Mitleidsgefühl [Lalitavistarapurāṇa 217,13.]
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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Partial matches: Maha, Karuna.
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