Praskaṇva, Praskanva: 6 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchPraskaṇva (प्रस्कण्व):—(1. pra + kaṇva) m. Nomen proprium eines vedischen Ṛṣi mit dem patron. Kāṇva (eines Grosssohnes des Kaṇva nach [Bhāgavatapurāṇa]), Verfassers von [Ṛgveda 1, 44 - 50. 9, 95.] [Vālakhilya 1.] — [Yāska’s Nirukta 3, 17.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 1, 153.] [Ṛgveda 1, 44, 6. 45, 3. 8, 3, 9.] [Vālakhilya 3, 2. 6, 8.] [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 16, 11, 26.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 20, 7.] pl. seine Nachkommen [Brahmapurāṇa] in [Oxforder Handschriften 19,a,26.] — Vgl. prāskaṇva .
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Prāskaṇva (प्रास्कण्व):—adj. von praskaṇva. sūkta [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 16, 11, 25.] n. Name eines Sāman [Weber’s Indische Studien.3,225,b.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungPraskaṇva (प्रस्कण्व):—m. Nomen proprium eines Ṛṣi Pl. seine Nachkommen.
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Prāskaṇva (प्रास्कण्व):——
1) Adj. von Praskaṇva verfasst. —
2) Name eines Sāman.
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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