Shakapuni, Śākapūṇi: 6 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śākapūṇi can be transliterated into English as Sakapuni or Shakapuni, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚākapūṇi (शाकपूणि):—(von śakapūṇa) m. patron. Nomen proprium eines Grammatikers [Yāska’s Nirukta 3, 11. 8, 5. 6. 14. 12, 19. 13, 10. 11] (vgl. Erll. [?S. 222). Śāṅkhāyana’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi.4,10. NID.4,9. Pariśiṣṭa des Atharvaveda in Weber’s Verzeichniss 92,12. Weber’s Indische Studien.1,105. Viṣṇupurāṇa.3,4,23. Oxforder Handschriften 54,b,36.]
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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