Shalvaka, Salvaka, Sālvaka, Śālvakā: 4 definitions
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Shalvaka has 3 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śālvakā can be transliterated into English as Salvaka or Shalvaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚālvaka (शाल्वक):—adj. (f. śālvikā) von śālva
1) gaṇa kacchādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 2, 134.] manuṣya, hasita [135, Scholiast] go, yavāgū [136.] rājan [Mahābhārata 5, 889.] f. śālvakī gaṇa gaurādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 41.]
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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