Pushkaravati, Puṣkarāvatī: 9 definitions
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Pushkaravati has 7 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Puṣkarāvatī can be transliterated into English as Puskaravati or Pushkaravati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchPuṣkarāvatī (पुष्करावती):—(von puṣkara mit dem suff. vant) f. die Lotusreiche:
1) Nomen proprium einer Stadt, Πευκελαῶτις u. s. w. der Alten, Pousekielofati bei [Hiouen-Thsang,] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 3, 119, Scholiast 1, 219, Scholiast] [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 43, 23 (Gorresio] übersetzt es als adj.). [Kathāsaritsāgara 28, 113. 37, 22. 82. 146. 180.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 386,] [Nalopākhyāna 17], wo fälschlich puṣkaravatī steht. Vgl. puṣkalāvatī . —
2) eine Form der Dākṣāyaṇi [Matsyapurāṇa] in [Oxforder Handschriften 39,b,22.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungPuṣkarāvatī (पुष्करावती):—f. —
1) Nomen proprium einer Stadt. Πευκελαῶτις. —
2) eine Form der Dākṣāyaṇī.
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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Partial matches: Pushkara, Vati.
Full-text: Pushkalavati, Gudhasena, Pukkhalavai, Maulimala, Pushkalavata, Karna, Pingalagandhara, Campavati, Kshamavati, Kamasena, Vasavadatta, Manidatta, Kumaradatta, Vindhyapara, Kanakadatta, Ratnadatta, Nidhipatidatta, Anuragapara, Pushkara.
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