Shankhin, Śaṅkhin: 8 definitions
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Shankhin has 7 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śaṅkhin can be transliterated into English as Sankhin or Shankhin, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaṅkhin (शङ्खिन्):—(von śaṅkha)
1) adj. a) = śaṅkhavant [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 139. fg.] mit einer Muschel versehen [Mahābhārata 4, 1639.] Viṣṇu [Harivaṃśa 14709. 15029.] Muscheln führend: Wasser [Āpastamba] beim Schol. zu [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 7, 2, 15.] — b) den Śaṅkha genannten Schatz besitzend [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 68, 45.] —
2) m. a) das Meer [Medinīkoṣa] — b) ein N. Viṣṇu’s [Medinīkoṣa] — c) Muschelarbeiter [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] —
3) śaṅkhinī f. a) Andropogon aciculatus Roxb. [Amarakoṣa 2, 4, 4,] [?14.Medinīkoṣa] = śvetacukra [Medinīkoṣa] = śvetavṛndā [Śabdaratnāvalī] [?(Medinīkoṣa und Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] verwechselt) = śvetapuṃnāga [VIŚVA]; = yavakti [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] Cissampelos hexandra [Hindu System of Medicine 146. -] [Suśruta 1, 132, 12. 139, 18. 145, 3. 157, 14. 2, 42, 5. 74, 16.] [Śārṅgadhara SAṂH. 2, 1, 17.] — b) Bez. einer best. Ader (nāḍī) [Oxforder Handschriften 236], b, [1. 9.] — c) Bez. einer Gattung von Frauen (deren die Erotik vier unterscheidet: citriṇī, padminī, śaṅkhinī und hastinī) [Medinīkoṣa] [Oxforder Handschriften 218], b, [14. fg.] dīrghā sudīrghanayanā varasundarī yā kāmopabhogarasikā guṇaśīlayuktā rekhātrayeṇa ca vibhūṣitakaṇṭhadeśā saṃbhogakelirasikā kila śaṅkhinī sā . vṛṣabhaṃ śaṅkhinī tuṣṭā (ramate) . śaṅkhinī kṣāragandhā syāt [Ratimañjarī im Śabdakalpadruma] [SMARADĪPIKĀ] (Tüb. Hdschr.). — d) Nomen proprium einer buddhistischen Göttin [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 1, 19.] [KĀLACAKRA 2, 42. 45. 106. 3, 141.] — e) Nomen proprium eines Wallfahrtsortes [Mahābhārata 3, 6021.] — Vgl. śāṅkhina .
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