Sahasrabahu, Sahasrabāhu, Sahasra-bahu: 7 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSahasrabāhu (सहस्रबाहु):—
1) adj. tausendarmig [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 5, 3. 8, 7, 12. 10, 62, 4.] Śiva [Śivanāmasahasra] —
2) m. a) Beiname Arjuṇa’s [Rāmāyaṇa 7, 33, 23.] — b) Nomen proprium eines Wesens im Gefolge Skanda's [Mahābhārata 9, 2561.] —
3) m. oder f. Nomen proprium: apibatka.ruvaḥ su.amindraḥ sa.asrabāhve [Ṛgveda 8, 45, 26.]
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: Bahu, Sahasra.
Full-text: Gabhastiman, Indradvipa.
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The history of Andhra country (1000 AD - 1500 AD) (by Yashoda Devi)
Part 6 - Mallideva II and Bhima IV (A.D. 1231-1254) < [Chapter II - The Haihayas]
Part 17 - Choda III (A.D. 1403) < [Chapter II - The Haihayas]
List of Mahabharata people and places (by Laxman Burdak)
Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture (by D. N. Shukla)
Temples at Gwalior and Brindabana < [Chapter 12 - History of Hindu Temples (Prāsādas and Vimānas)]
The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 29 - Rāmeśvara (rāma-īśvara-liṅga) < [Section 2 - Caturaśīti-liṅga-māhātmya]
Viṣṇu-sahasranāma (Garland of a Thousand Epithets of Viṣṇu) < [Section 1 - Avantīkṣetra-māhātmya]
The Shiva Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
Chapter 45 - The beginning of the war and the conversation with the messengers < [Section 2.5 - Rudra-saṃhitā (5): Yuddha-khaṇḍa]
Chapter 35 - Śiva-sahasranāma: the thousand names of Śiva < [Section 4 - Koṭirudra-Saṃhitā]
The Padma Purana (by N.A. Deshpande)
Chapter 241 - Paraśurāma’s Story < [Section 6 - Uttara-Khaṇḍa (Concluding Section)]
Chapter 34 - The Account of Trispṛśā < [Section 6 - Uttara-Khaṇḍa (Concluding Section)]
Chapter 34 - The gift of Brahmāṇḍa < [Section 1 - Sṛṣṭi-khaṇḍa (section on creation)]