Shankaniya, Śaṅkanīya: 8 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śaṅkanīya can be transliterated into English as Sankaniya or Shankaniya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaṅkanīya (शङ्कनीय):—(von śaṅk) adj.
1) Besorgniss —, Verdacht —, Argwohn erregend [Hitopadeśa 97, 20. fg.] mahīkṣitām [Harivaṃśa 3105.] [Raghuvaṃśa 4, 45.] daridratā [Spr. (II) 1595. (I) 2932.] —
2) zu vermuthen, zu befürchten, vorauszusetzen, anzunehmen ad [Śākuntala 62] (a). atha vā tavāyaṃ na kāmacāro mayi śaṅkanīyaḥ [Raghuvaṃśa 14, 62.] [Prabodhacandrodaja 31, 2.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 26, 17. 121, 9.] iti śaṅkanīyam impers. [133, 14.] [Oxforder Handschriften 265], a, 1. śabdastu neśvare bādhakatvena (so v. a. bādhakaḥ) śaṅkanīyaḥ [KUSUM. 32, 22.] [NYĀYAMĀLĀV. 1, 3, 24.]
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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