Sahasraposha, Sahasrapoṣa: 3 definitions
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Sahasraposha has 2 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Sahasrapoṣa can be transliterated into English as Sahasraposa or Sahasraposha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSahasrapoṣa (सहस्रपोष):—1. m. s. u. poṣa. kāma [LĀṬY. 9, 8, 1. 3.]
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Sahasrapoṣa (सहस्रपोष):—2. adj. tausendfach gedeihend: bhuvana [Śāṅkhāyana’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 3, 10] (sāhasra [GOBH. 3, 6, 6]).
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Sahasrāpoṣa (सहस्रापोष):—m. = sahasrapoṣa [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6, 79, 3. 7, 48, 2.]
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: Posa, Sahasra.
Starts with: Sahasraposhakama, Sahasraposhapushi.
Full-text: Sahasraposhapushi, Sahasraposhakama, Upaga.
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