Shankhapada, Śaṅkhapada: 4 definitions
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Shankhapada has 3 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śaṅkhapada can be transliterated into English as Sankhapada or Shankhapada, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaṅkhapada (शङ्खपद):—m. Nomen proprium eines Sohnes des Manu Svārociṣa [Mahābhārata 12, 13583. fg.] des Kardama [Harivaṃśa 275.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 1, 22, 10.]
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Śaṅkhapāda (शङ्खपाद):—m. Nomen proprium eines Sohnes des Kardama [Viṣṇupurāṇa 83,] [Nalopākhyāna 6] (vgl. śaṅkhapad, śaṅkhapada und śaṅkhapāla). Nomen proprium des Hauptes einer best. Secte [Oxforder Handschriften 251], a, 40.
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: Pada, Shankha, Pata.
Full-text: Suvarnabha, Ketuman, Kardama, Sudhanva, Abhisheka.
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