Pancajana, Pañcajana, Pancan-jana, Pamcajana: 12 definitions

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[«previous next»] — Pancajana in Sanskrit glossary

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

Pañcajana (पञ्चजन):—(pañcan + jana)

1) m. pl. oxyt. die fünf Stämme, - Geschlechter (vgl. jana 1, a, α) [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 3, 31] (Götter, Menschen, Gandharva-Apsaras, Schlangen, Väter). pañcajanā na samajānata [4, 27.] pañca [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 1, 6, 1, 2.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 7, 2, 9.] [Kāṭhaka-Recension 5, 6. 32, 6.] pañcajanā lokeṣu pratiṣṭhitāḥ [Prātiśākha zum Atharvaveda 4, 106.] sa pañcadhā pañcajanopapannaṃ saṃcodayanviśvamidaṃ sisṛkṣuḥ [Mahābhārata 13, 7393.] pañcajanāḥ = manuṣyāḥ [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 1, 1.] pañcajanaḥ = manuṣyaḥ [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 337.] [Halāyudha 2, 176.] pañcajanendra Fürst, König [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 353.] —

2) m. Nomen proprium a) eines Unholds, dem Kṛṣṇa den Garaus machte und die Muschel Pāñcajanya abnahm, [Mahābhārata 7, 401.] [Harivaṃśa 4918. fgg.] [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 43, 34.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 562.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 3, 2.] eines Sohnes des Saṃhrāda von der Kṛti [6, 18, 13.] — b) eines Prajāpati [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 4, 51.] — c) eines Sohnes des Sagara von der Keśinī [Harivaṃśa 801. fgg.] — d) eines Sohnes des Sṛñjaya und Vaters des Somadatta [Harivaṃśa 1790. fg.] —

3) f. ī a) ein Verein von fünf Menschen [Śabdakalpadruma] [Wilson’s Wörterbuch] — b) Nomen proprium einer Tochter Viśvarūpa’s und Gemahlin Bharata's [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 7, 1] (die Uebersetzung liest pāñca).

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Pāñcajana (पाञ्चजन):—patron. von pañcajana; f. ī patron. der Asiknī, der Tochter des Prajāpati Pañcajana, [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 5, 1.]

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Pañcajana (पञ्चजन):—

1) [Prātiśākha zum Atharvaveda 4, 106.] —

2) a) [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 45, 40.]

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

Pañcajana (पञ्चजन):——

1) m. — a) Pl. die fünf Stämme , — Geschlechter: Götter , Menschen , Gandharva-Apsaras , Schlangen und Manen. — b) Mensch [Harṣacarita 147,6.222,20.] — c) am Anf. eines Comp. die fünf Elemente [Mahābhārata 13,159,40.] — d) Nomen proprium — α) eines von Kṛṣṇa erschlagenen Unholds. — β) eines Prajāpati. — γ) verschiedener Männer. —

2) f. janī — a) *ein Verein von fünf Menschen. — b) Nomen proprium einer Tochter Viśvarūpa's.

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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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