Samba, Śamba, Shamba, Śāmba, Sāmba, Śambā: 19 definitions

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Samba has 18 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit terms Śamba and Śāmba and Śambā can be transliterated into English as Samba or Shamba, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Śamba (शम्ब):—[Uṇādisūtra 4, 94] (śamva). [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 2, 138] (oxyt.).

1) adj. = śaṃyu, śubhaṃyu [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 1, 24.] = śubhānvita [Medinīkoṣa b. 8.] = bhāgyavant [RĀMĀŚRAYA], = daridra [UṆĀDIVṚ. im SAṂKṢIPTAS.] nach [Śabdakalpadruma] —

2) m. a) etwa Stange, Stock, Keule als Waffe Indra's: ā.ācchatru.apa bādhasva dū.amu.ro yaḥ śambaḥ puruhūta.tena [Ṛgveda 10, 42, 7.] = vajra der Donnerkeil [das.4,2.] [Yāska’s Nirukta.5,24.] [Amarakoṣa.1,1,1,43.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 180.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha.2,306.] [Medinīkoṣa] [Halāyudha.1,56.] [JATĀDH.] in [Oxforder Handschriften 191,b,1.] metallener Knopf an der Mörserkeule, = musalāgrasthalohamaṇḍalaka (so [Śabdakalpadruma]) [Medinīkoṣa] = musalalohamukha [UJJVAL.] = lohakāñcī [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] — b) ein best. Längenmaass: śambagādhamudakam [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 2, 4, Scholiast] — c) = anulomakarṣaṇa (vgl. śambākṛta) [Bharata] zu [Amarakoṣa] nach [Śabdakalpadruma] — d) Nomen proprium eines Asura (vgl. śambara) [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa] Comm. — Vgl. śambin und śāmba .

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Samba (सम्ब):—m. = muṣalānala [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 282.] — Vgl. śamba .

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Sāmba (साम्ब):—gaṇa uñchādi (bhāvagarhāyām) zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 1, 160.]

1) m. Nomen proprium gaṇa bāhvādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 96.] a) eines Lehrers [Weber’s Indische Studien 4, 372] (mit śa) bahvṛca [Mahābhārata 15, 312.] — b) eines Sohnes des Kṛṣṇa von der Jāmbavatī, der in den [PURĀṆA] zum Sonnencult und den Maga in Beziehung gesetzt wird. [Mahābhārata 1, 6997. 7914. 2, 129. 3, 644. 1994. 7, 4194. 13, 615. 1028. 16, 19. 25.] [Harivaṃśa 6773. fgg. 7665. 7667. 8057. 8096. 8144. 8401. 8664. 8772. 8777. 8861. 9185. 9592. fgg. 11008.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 58, 40.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 5, 32, 2. 35, 4. fgg. 37, 7. fgg.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 10, 29. 11, 18. 14, 31. 3, 1, 30. 10, 61, 11. 90, 33.] [Oxforder Handschriften 31], b, [10. 21. 24. 33], a, [26. fgg. 60], b, [11. 61], b, [3 v. u. 62], a, [5. 6. 11. fgg. 16. 67], a, [5. 70], b, [19. 77], b, 18. 134, a, [No. 248.] mūrti (viśveśvara) 243, b, [No. 605.] purāṇa 84, b, [10. 183], a, [1.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 18. 469.] —

2) n. so v. a. sāmbapurāṇa [Oxforder Handschriften 8], a, 9. 40, b, [33. 65], b, [13. 80], a, 5. — Häufig (aber nicht in den Bomb. Ausgg.) śāmba geschrieben. Vgl. traiśāmba (so auch ed. Bomb.).

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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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