Paurastya: 11 definitions
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Paurastya has 9 English definitions available.
Alternative spellings of this word include Paurasty.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchPaurastya (पौरस्त्य):—(von puras) adj. f. ā nach vorn gelegen, der vorderste, östlich [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 2, 98.] [Amarakoṣa 3, 2, 30.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1459.] [Raghuvaṃśa 4, 34.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 25, 46.] paurastyāḥ die Oestlichen = gauḍāḥ [kāvyādarśa 1, 83.]
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Paurastya (पौरस्त्य):—s. unten u. paulastya .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungPaurastya (पौरस्त्य):—Adj. (f. ā) —
1) nach vorn gelegen , der vorderste. —
2) östlich. pavana Ostwind [Kathāsaritsāgara 122,67.(] paulastya gedr.). Pl. des Volk im Osten = gauḍa.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with: Paurastyapavana, Paurastyavaiyakarana.
Full-text: Purilla, Puratthima, Paulastya, Paurastyapavana, Puratthimilla, Paurasty, Paurvatya, Tyak, Purima.
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Vasudevavijaya of Vasudeva (Study) (by Sajitha. A)
Taddhita (in Sanskrit grammar) < [Chapter 3 - Vāsudevavijaya—A Grammatical Study]
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Chapter CXXII < [Book XVIII - Viṣamaśīla]
Reverberations of Dharmakirti’s Philosophy (by Birgit Kellner)