Shaivapashupata, Śaivapāśupata, Shaiva-pashupata: 2 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śaivapāśupata can be transliterated into English as Saivapasupata or Shaivapashupata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaivapāśupata (शैवपाशुपत):—adj. zu Śiva-Paśupati in Beziehung stehend u.s.w. [Oxforder Handschriften 14], a, [Nalopākhyāna 1.] m. ein Anhänger von Śiva-Paśupati [Prabodhacandrodaja 21, 1.]
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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Partial matches: Pashupata, Shaiva.
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