Shankhika, Śāṅkhika, Shamkhika: 13 definitions
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Shankhika has 12 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śāṅkhika can be transliterated into English as Sankhika or Shankhika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaṅkhika (शङ्खिक):—(śāṅkhika?) m. Nomen proprium eines Mannes [TĀRAN. 26.] — śaṅkhikā s. u. śaṅkhaka .
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Śāṅkhika (शाङ्खिक):—(von śaṅkha) m. Bearbeiter von Muscheln [Amarakoṣa 2, 10, 8.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 910.] Muschelbläser [Jaṭādhara im Śabdakalpadruma] — Vgl. śaṅkhika .
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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