Shakuneya, Śākuneya: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śākuneya can be transliterated into English as Sakuneya or Shakuneya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚākuneya (शाकुनेय):—(von śakuni)
1) adj. von Śakuni verfasst: dharmāḥ [Oxforder Handschriften 266,b,21.] —
2) m. a) eine kleine Eulenart (ḍuṇḍula) [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] — b) patron. gaṇa śubhrādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 123.] Nomen proprium eines Muni [Oxforder Handschriften 310,a,27.] [ 22,14.] patron. des Asura Vṛka [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 88, 29.]
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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