Sanyas: 3 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSanyas (सन्यस्):—(von 1. sana) adj. alt: taṃ sapa.yannavyaṃ kṛṇomi.sanyase purā.ām [Ṛgveda 3, 31, 19.] tamu tvā nū.amīmahe.navyaṃ daṃsiṣṭha.sanyase [?8, 24, 26. nach Sāyaṇa] = saṃbhajana (von 1. san) oder saṃnyāsa (von 2. as).
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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Starts with: Sanyasa, Sanyasam, Sanyasana, Sanyasanamgey, Sanyasanavidhana, Sanyasanavidhi, Sanyasavrajana, Sanyasi, Sanyasika, Sanyasin, Sanyasini, Sanyastapada, Sanyastasamjna, Shanyashtaka.
Full-text: Samnyasa.
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Macabre Queue < [January – March, 1978]
Scientific Approach to Hinduism < [July 1964]
Indian Culture < [October 1970]
Social philosophy of Swami Vivekananda (by Baruah Debajit)
Folk Tales of Gujarat (and Jhaverchand Meghani) (by Vandana P. Soni)