Sankshaya, Saṅkṣaya, Saṃkṣaya, Samkshaya: 13 definitions

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The Sanskrit terms Saṅkṣaya and Saṃkṣaya can be transliterated into English as Sanksaya or Sankshaya or Samksaya or Samkshaya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Saṃkṣaya (संक्षय):—(von 3. kṣi mit sam) m.

1) das zu Ende Gehen, Vergehen, völliges Verschwinden, Versiegen, Vernichtung, Untergang: prajānām [Mahābhārata 1, 3725. 6, 4948.] [Spr. (II) 5872.] [Pañcatantra 104, 18.] bhūtānāṃ mahatām [Oxforder Handschriften 49,b,17.] tapasaḥ [Mahābhārata 1, 3237.] [Yāska’s Nirukta 14, 7. 8.] apaśyaṃstasya duḥkhasya sāgarasyeva saṃkṣayam [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 2, 80, 3.] loha [Suśruta 2, 82, 7.] grīṣme salilasaṃkṣayaḥ [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 33, 13.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 32, 14.] rasasasya [9, 26.] vīryānna [46, 28.] [Pañcatantra 47, 10.] varṣma [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 55.] śarīra [161.] prāṇi [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 382.] jana [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 46, 30.] deśakula [52.] [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 2, 68, 55. 6, 33, 51.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 22, 42.] [Harivaṃśa 5600.] dānava [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 8, 11, 43.] kṣetrajña [Mahābhārata 14, 931.] prāṇa [Spr. (II) 5989. 7411.] jīvita [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 110, 26.] sattva [Sāhityadarpana 197.] māsartu [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 16, 34.] sarga [Oxforder Handschriften 81],a, 31. śakti [269], a, [30.] gharma [Spr. (II) 53.] agharma [Mahābhārata 13, 5482.] madbhāgya [3, 2735.] [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 26, 31. 36, 16.] bhāgyoṣma [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 385.] puṇya [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 50, 11.] duṣkṛta [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 12, 15.] agha [Oxforder Handschriften 172,b,19.] kleśa [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 12, 45. 30, 27.] vidhu Abnahme —, Hinschwinden des Mondes [Oxforder Handschriften 30,b,7. 40,a, Nalopākhyāna 1.] divasa Ende des Tages [Mahābhārata 5, 7162.] saṃkṣayaṃ gam [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 16, 33.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 398.] [Spr. (II) 1882.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 1, 13, 25. 3, 31, 33.] ā yā [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 5, 26.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 403. 4, 540.] upa yā [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 17, 20.] [Spr. (II) 5808.] pra yā [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 8, 26.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 277.] kar [Spr. (II) 759.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 5, 23. 92.] dhātusaṃkṣayakṛt [7, 5.] lokasaṃkṣayāvahā [33, 26.] —

2) Untergang der Welt: kālāgniriva saṃkṣaye [Mahābhārata 13, 7271.] [Oxforder Handschriften 49], b, 14. —

3) Nomen proprium eines Marutvant [Harivaṃśa 11545.] — Vgl. mūtra, loka (auch [Spr. (II) 5873)], śuci .

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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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