Pancaka, Pañcaka, Pamcaka: 23 definitions

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Pancaka means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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

Pañcaka (पञ्चक):—(von pañcan)

1) adj. aus Fünfen bestehend, = pañca parimāṇamasya [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 58,] [Scholiast] [Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 16, 10.] gaṇa [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 92.] [SĀṂKHYAK. 24.] varga [Mahābhārata 15, 932.] [Suśruta 1, 143, 21. 158, 2.] [KĀM. NĪTIS. 8, 37. 38.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 8, 16, 50.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 88.] dāsāstripañcakāḥ von fünfzehnerlei Art [Mitākṣarā 267, 7.] = pañcāṃśo vasnaṃ bhṛtirvāsya [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 56,] [Scholiast] māsika der im Monat fünf erhält [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 4, 116, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 4,] [Scholiast] devadattaḥ fünf Procent nehmend [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 47, Vārttika von Kātyāyana.,] [Scholiast] für fünf gekauft [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 22,] [Scholiast] pañcakaṃ śatam fünf vom Hundert [Manu’s Gesetzbuch.8, 139. 142. 152.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 2, 37. 42.] vayasāśītipañcakaḥ 85 jährig [Mahābhārata 7, 5089.] — m. n. gaṇa ardharcādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 4, 31.] —

2) m. a) pañcakāḥ = śakunayaḥ [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 58,] [Scholiast] — b) Nomen proprium eines Wesens im Gefolge des Skanda [Mahābhārata 9, 2537.] —

3) f. pañcikā a) Bez. der aus je fünf Adhyāya bestehenden Bücher im [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa] Auch im [TĀṆḌYA-BRĀHMAṆA] scheinen die Abtheilungen so zu heissen, da [COLEBR. Misc. I, 83] wohl (wie auch

36) pañcikā st. pañjikā zu lesen ist. navadvīpī (?) [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 889.] — b) N. eines mit fünf Muscheln gespielten Spieles [Scholiast] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 1, 10.] —

4) n. a) Fünfzahl, πεντάς [Harivaṃśa 15356.] [Amarakoṣa 2, 8, 2, 53.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 9, 14. 53, 85. 67, 89.] [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [?S. 100. Pañcatantra 134, 16. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 11, 15. Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 37, 33. Scholiast zu Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 467, 19. 550, 3. Vedānta lecture No. 45. Scholiast bei WILSON, SĀṂKHYAK. S. 126. Vopadeva’s Grammatik 5, 12. 25, 17.] pañcakena gaṇa prakṛtyādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 3, 18, Vārttika von Kātyāyana.] pañcapañcakatattvajña die 25 Tattva [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 53, 42]; man hätte eher pañcatattvapañcaka erwartet. — b) Schlachtfeld [ŚABDĀRTHAK.] bei [Wilson’s Wörterbuch]; viell. aus samantapañcaka geschlossen.

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Pañcaka (पञ्चक):—

1) aus Fünfen bestehend [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 249. 254.] vielleicht fünf Tage alt: mṛtasya dāhavidhiḥ [Oxforder Handschriften 294,b,17.]

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

Pañcaka (पञ्चक):——

1) Adj. — a) aus Fünfen bestehend. — b) fünf Tage alt. — c) *für fünf gekauft — d) in Verbindung mit śata n. fünf Procent. — e) *fünf Procent nehmend. —

2) m. — a) eine best. Kaste [VP.².4,217.] — b) Nomen proprium — α) eines Wesens im Gefolge Skanda's. — β) eines Sohnes des Nahuṣa [Viṣṇupurāṇa 4,46.] —

3) f. pañcikā — a) ein aus fünf Adhyāya bestehendes Buch. — b) ein best. Spiel. —

4) n. — a) Fünfzahl , πεντάς. — b) *Schlachtfeld.

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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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