Shamkaratirtha, Śāṅkaratīrtha, Śaṃkaratīrtha, Shankaratirtha, Shankara-tirtha, Shamkara-tirtha: 4 definitions
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Shamkaratirtha has 3 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit terms Śāṅkaratīrtha and Śaṃkaratīrtha can be transliterated into English as Sankaratirtha or Shankaratirtha or Samkaratirtha or Shamkaratirtha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaṃkaratīrtha (शंकरतीर्थ):—n. Nomen proprium eines Tīrtha [Oxforder Handschriften 66], a, [4. 5.] [WILSON], Sel. Works [2, 19. fg.]
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: Shankara, Tirtha.
Ends with: Vidyashamkaratirtha.
Full-text: Shankara, Punyatirtha.
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