Sapta, Shapta, Śapta, Saptan: 26 definitions
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Sapta has 25 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śapta can be transliterated into English as Sapta or Shapta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Sapt.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚapta (शप्त):—
1) adj. und n. s. u. śap . —
2) m. Saccharum cylindricum [Śabdacandrikā im Śabdakalpadruma]
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Sapta (सप्त):—= saptan in triṣapta, trisapta .
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Sāpta (साप्त):—1. (von saptan) [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 61] (varge). adj. siebenfältig, n. Siebenzahl: ratnāni.triḥ sāptāni [Ṛgveda 1, 20, 7.] sa.ta sāptāni [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 5, 4, 7, 5.] [Scholiast] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 61.] [Śāṅkhāyana’s Brāhmaṇa 14, 5.] Hierher wohl auch (oxyt.): a.māntribhiḥ sā.tebhiravatam dreimal siebenmal [Vālakhilya 11, 5.]
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Sāpta (साप्त):—
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSaptan (सप्तन्):—(sa in der klassischen Sprache [Śāntanācārya’s Phiṭsūtrāṇi 2, 5.] [UJJVAL.] zu [Uṇādisūtra 1, 156]), sapta nom. acc., saptabhyas, saptabhis, saptānām, saptasu; sieben. Diese Zahl drückt zugleich eine unbestimmte Vielheit aus, wie in kleinerem Maassstabe die Dreizahl. Daher auch die Vervielfältigung der sieben mit der drei. triḥ sa.ta [Ṛgveda 1, 191, 12. 14. 4, 1, 16. 7, 87, 3. 8, 46, 26. 58, 7. 85, 2. 9, 70, 1.] sapta sapta [5, 52, 17. 8, 28, 5. 10, 55, 3.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 2, 5, 1, 13. 5, 4, 3, 17.] sa.ta.iṃ ca sa.ta ca [Ṛgveda 10, 93, 15.] sapta ca śatāni viṃśatiśca [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 2, 17.] — [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 8, 9, 18.] [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 17, 79.] [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa 3, 11, 1, 1.] Āditya s. u. d. W. Sonnenrosse [Ṛgveda 1, 50, 8. 4, 13, 3.] Ströme [28, 1. 7, 18, 24. 8, 24, 27. 85, 1.] pra sa.ta sapta tre.hā hi cakra.uḥ [10, 75, 1. 64, 8.] Burgen der Dämonen [6, 20, 10. 7, 18, 13.] ratnā [5, 1, 5. 6, 74, 1.] viprāsaḥ [22, 2. 4, 2, 15.] hotāraḥ [3, 10, 4. 8, 49, 16.] ṛṣayaḥ s. u. d. W. hastāsaḥ [Ṛgveda 4, 58, 3.] Hausthiere [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 9, 32.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 3, 10, 6.] [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 2, 16.] Wild [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 9, 5, 2, 8.] Pflanzen [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 5, 2, 5, 5.] Sonnenstrahlen [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 7, 107, 1.] Sonnen [Taittirīyāraṇyaka 1, 7, 1.] Thore des Himmels [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa 3, 12, 2, 9.] Götterwelten [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 2, 16. 4, 9. 5, 10.] Berge [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 6, 2, 4, 3.] prāṇāḥ [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 6, 5, 3, 11. 7, 5, 2, 9.] stomāḥ [9, 5, 2, 8.] ṛtavaḥ [1, 2, 31. 2, 3, 45.] diśaḥ [Ṛgveda 9, 114, 3.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 9, 5, 2, 8.] hundert und sieben Arten von Kräutern [Ṛgveda 10, 97, 1.] — [Taittirīyasaṃhitā] [Prātiśākhya 23, 4. 11.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 1, 19. 36. 63. 105 u.s.w.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 73. 4, 6.] [SĀṂKHYAK. 3. 63.] [Raghuvaṃśa 1, 60. 2, 25.] [Spr. (II) 2284. 2614. 2729. 6827. 6830. fg. 7520.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 18, 314. 28, 172.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 27, 16.] pātālanikṣiptamūla [Spr. (II) 6829.] [SĀṂKHYAK. 65.] dagegen würden wir [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 64] saptatālān und [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 11, 34] saptamunīn lieber getrennt schreiben. — Vgl. tri, pañca, sāpta, sāpti .
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Starts with (+588): Sapta rangi, Sapta-amatya, Sapta-ambhodhi, Sapta-kshetra, Sapta-sakarayattirai, Sapta-santana, Sapta-santati, Sapta-vidhi, Sapta-vitankastalam, Saptabaddhri, Saptabahu, Saptabahya, Saptabdhi, Saptabhadra, Saptabhaga, Saptabhamginyaya, Saptabhangan, Saptabhanginaya, Saptabhangitaramgini, Saptabhangitarangini.
Ends with: Abhishapta, Avashapta, Dashasapta, Dvijashapta, Mithyabhishapta, Pancasapta, Parishapta, Samshapta, Shatsapta, Trihsapta, Trisapta, Utikshapta, Vishapta, Yogasapta.
Full-text (+765): Saptaha, Saptasapti, Saptadashan, Saptavati, Shaptavat, Saptaparṇa, Saptanali, Saptapurusha, Saptakona, Saptabhauma, Saptaloka, Saptaratrika, Saptadri, Saptahasta, Saptagrahi, Saptakritvas, Saptamshu, Saptapada, Saptatman, Saptatantava.
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