Shaikya, Śaikya: 6 definitions
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Shaikya has 5 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śaikya can be transliterated into English as Saikya or Shaikya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaikya (शैक्य):—(von śikya)
1) adj. etwa damascirt: śaikyāyasī gadā [Mahābhārata 6, 2346.] śaikyāyasāni varmāṇi [7, 4744.] śaikyāyasamaya [12, 3631.] sarvaśaikyāyasa [3, 15719. 6, 2258.] śaikyā sarvāyasī gadā [3, 11732.] śastrāṇi śuddhaśaikyāyasāni [Suśruta 1, 28, 14.] śaikyā gadā [Mahābhārata 3, 1978. 5, 2045. 7, 7300. 9, 579.] von [Nīlakaṇṭha] gewöhnlich durch śikyastha erklärt; = śiṃkya āhitam [UJJVAL.] zu [Uṇādisūtra 5, 16.] —
2) m. etwa eine Art Schleuder: kanakabhūṣaṇa [Mahābhārata 2, 1916] (= śikyādhṛtaṃ pātram [Nīlakaṇṭha]). śaikyena (= śikyasadṛśena pātreṇa [Nīlakaṇṭha]) nāgāṃstarasā vigṛhṇan [5, 1829.] — śaikya [Mahābhārata 12, 13202] wohl fehlerhaft für śaikṣa .
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Saikya (सैक्य):—(von seka) adj. mit Begiessung zusammenhängend, davon abhängig [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 41, 6. 7.]
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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