Parahamsa, Parahaṃsa, Para-hamsa: 4 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchParahaṃsa (परहंस):—m. = paramahaṃsa [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 645.]
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Parahaṃsa (परहंस):—[Oxforder Handschriften 269,b,9.] — Vgl. pārahaṃsya .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungParahaṃsa (परहंस):—m. ein Asket der höchsten Ordnung.
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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