Shankhakuta, Śaṅkhakūṭa: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śaṅkhakūṭa can be transliterated into English as Sankhakuta or Shankhakuta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaṅkhakūṭa (शङ्खकूट):—m. Nomen proprium
1) eines Schlangendämons [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1311, Scholiast] (śaṃṣakūṭa die Hdschr.). —
2) eines Berges [Viṣṇupurāṇa 169.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 55, 12. 56, 17.]
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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