Mahakashyapa, Mahakasyapa, Mahākāśyapa, Maha-kashyapa: 8 definitions
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Mahakashyapa has 6 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Mahākāśyapa can be transliterated into English as Mahakasyapa or Mahakashyapa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchMahākāśyapa (महाकाश्यप):—[(ma + kā)] m. Nomen proprium eines Schülers Buddha's [Rgva tch’er rol pa ed. Calc. 1, 14.] [Burnouf 158, Nalopākhyāna 3. 182, Nalopākhyāna 434.] [Lot. de Lassen’s Anthologie b. l. 1.] [Hiouen-Thsang 1, 345. 2, 7. 32.] [Lebensbeschreibung Śākyamuni’s 273 (43). 304 (74).] [WASSILJEW 37. 38. 157.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungMahākāśyapa (महाकाश्यप):—m. Nomen proprium eines Schülers Śākyamuni's.
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, Kashyapa.
Full-text (+508): First Buddhist Council, Kashyapa, Rashmiprabhasa, Pippalayana, Sthulananda, Ten Great Disciples, Mahakassapa, Vairambhavayu, Vairambha, Dharmaraja, Akshobhya, Pundarikaksha, Sadhurupa, Mangalya, Dridhahanu, Arimardana, Candrabha, Devaguru, Satyadharmavipulakirti, Satvarajan.
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Chapter 6 - The Inconceivable Liberation
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Chapter VII - The ordination of Mahā-Kāśyapa < [Volume III]
Chapter VIII - The first Bhūmi < [Volume I]
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