Samvahaka, Saṃvāhaka: 9 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSaṃvāhaka (संवाहक):—(vom caus. von 1. vah mit sam) nom. ag. mit der Hand entlang fahrend, die Glieder streichend, der dieses als Gewerbe betreibt [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 8, 31.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 492.] [Halāyudha 2, 435.] [Rāmāyaṇa] [Gorresio 2, 32, 22.] [Mṛcchakaṭikā 29, 18 u.s.w.] gātra [KĀM. NĪTIS. 12, 45.] pādasaṃvāhikā [Kathāsaritsāgara 63, 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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