Satkarman, Ṣaṭkarma, Ṣaṭkarman, Shatkarman, Shatkarma, Shash-karman, Shash-karma, Satkarma, Sat-karman: 19 definitions

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Satkarman has 18 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit terms Ṣaṭkarma and Ṣaṭkarman can be transliterated into English as Satkarma or Shatkarma or Satkarman or Shatkarman, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Ṣaṭkarman (षट्कर्मन्):—1. n. die sechs (erlaubten) Beschäftigungen eines Brahmanen (adhyayana, adhyāpana, yajana, yājana, dāna, pratigraha): ṣaṭkarmanityatā [Śāṅkhāyana’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 4, 5.] [Oxforder Handschriften 85], a, [38.] die sechs Zauberkünste (śānti, vaśya, stambhana, dveṣa oder vidveṣa, uccāṭana oder uccāṭa, māraṇa) [Śabdakalpadruma] [Oxforder Handschriften 100,a,37. fgg. 94,a,26.] die sechs Selbstpeinigungen im Yoga: dhautī, vastī, netī, trāṭaka, naulika, kapālabhātī; s. ebend. [234], a, [37. fgg.]

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Ṣaṭkarman (षट्कर्मन्):—2. adj. sechs (erlaubten) Beschäftigungen nachgehend: ein Brahman [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 4, 9] (vgl. [?1, 88; von Kullūka] auf sechs andere Beschäftigungen bezogen). [Mahābhārata 13, 6457.] m. so v. a. ein Brahman [Amarakoṣa 2, 7, 4.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 812.] [Halāyudha 2, 236.] ṣaṭkarmakṣitirakṣādyā varṇāḥ [Oxforder Handschriften 265,b,35.]

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Satkarman (सत्कर्मन्):—1. (sant + ka) n. ein gutes Werk [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 16, 69.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 115] (von janmasu zu trennen). [Spr. (II) 2575.] a [3174.]

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Satkarman (सत्कर्मन्):—2. (wie eben)

1) adj. gute Werke vollbringend [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 696.] —

2) m. Nomen proprium eines Sohnes des Dhṛtavrata [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 23, 12.]

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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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