Sharnga, Śārṅga: 19 definitions

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Sharnga has 18 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit term Śārṅga can be transliterated into English as Sarnga or Sharnga, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Śārṅga (शार्ङ्ग):—

1) adj. a) hörnen (von śṛṅga) [Suśruta 2, 49, 3. 353, 7.] — b) vom Baum Śṛṅga kommend: viṣa [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 2, 111.] — c) mit einem Bogen (śārṅga) bewaffnet [Bhaṭṭikavya 8, 123.] —

2) m. ein best. Vogel (vgl. śārga) [Mahābhārata 1, 8375. 8402.] pakṣin [7, 1036.] śārṅgī das Weibchen [1, 404. 8401.] —

3) n. a) Bogen [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 71.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 49.] [Medinīkoṣa g. 24.] [Śākuntala 93, 16. 94, 2.] insbes. Viṣṇu’s oder Kṛṣṇa’s Bogen [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 222.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] (hier fälschlich m.). [Halāyudha 1, 26.] [Oxforder Handschriften 183], b, [1. v. u. 190], b, [17.] [Mahābhārata 2,34.3,843. 850.] [Harivaṃśa 5035. 7329.] [Rāmāyaṇa 7,7,7. 13.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 88,17.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 8,20,30.] [Oxforder Handschriften 77,a,] [No. 131.] — b) frischer Ingwer [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] — c) Name eines Sāman [LĀṬY. 1, 6, 23.] śārga [Weber’s Indische Studien 3, 240],a. aindraṃ śārgam [211],b. añjo vyañjataḥ samañjata iti kākṣīvatāṃ trīṇi sāmāni oder śārgāṇi [202],a.

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Śārṅga (शार्ङ्ग):—m. patron. verschiedener Männer [Ṛgveda] [Anukramaṇikā]

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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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