Shamsana, Śaṃsana, Samshana: 8 definitions
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Shamsana has 7 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śaṃsana can be transliterated into English as Samsana or Shamsana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaṃsana (शंसन):—(wie eben) n.
1) Recitation [Weber’s Indische Studien 2, 288.] viruddha als Erkl. von gāli Verwünschung [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 272.] neben yoga als Beiw. Śiva’s (= vedapraśasya [Nīlakaṇṭha]) [Harivaṃśa 7425.] —
2) das Aussagen, Melden, Mittheilen: dvitīyāpriya eine zweite schlimme Botschaft [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 72, 39.] kāpyakāraḥ sa yaccitte pāpamādhāya śaṃsanam Bekenntniss [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 1, 132.] — Statt āśā śaṃsanaṃ prārthanam bei [] zu [Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad] [S. 123] ist āśāśaṃsanaṃ prā zu lesen. Vgl. maṅgala .
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Saṃśāna (संशान):—(von 2. śā mit sam) n. N. best. Sāman [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 12, 8, 3, 26.] [LĀṬY. 5, 4, 16.] indrasya [Weber’s Indische Studien 3, 241],a.
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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Ends with: Abhisamsana, Anushamsashamsana, Ashamsana, Atishamsana, Mangalashamsana, Mithyabhishamsana, Nrishamsana, Prashamsana, Vairashamsana, Virashamsana, Viruddhashamsana, Vishamsana.
Full-text: Ashamsana, Abhisamsana, Sashyana, Atishamsana, Abhishamsa, Vishnuvigrahashamsanastotra, Virashamsana, Prashamsana, Mangalashamsana, Anushamsashamsana, Viruddhashamsana, Shasya, Sanganem.
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