Shantivacana, Śāntivācana, Shanti-vacana, Shamtivacana: 4 definitions
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Shantivacana has 3 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śāntivācana can be transliterated into English as Santivacana or Shantivacana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Shantivachana.
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[Deutsch Wörterbuch]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚāntivācana (शान्तिवाचन):—n. und adj. (= śāntivācanaṃ prayojanamasya) gaṇa puṇyāhavācanādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 111, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 3.]
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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