Shashakarna, Śaśakarṇa, Shasha-karna: 3 definitions
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Shashakarna has 2 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śaśakarṇa can be transliterated into English as Sasakarna or Shashakarna, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaśakarṇa (शशकर्ण):—m. Hasenohr:
1) Nomen proprium eines Mannes mit dem patron. Kāṇva, Liedverfassers von [Ṛgveda 8, 9.] —
2) Name eines Sāman [LĀṬY. 4, 6, 8. 6, 3,] [?21.NID. 6, 3] ; vgl. śaśasya karṣū [Weber’s Indische Studien 3, 239],a.
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Śaśakarṇa (शशकर्ण):—vgl. śāśakarṇi .
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: Shasha, Karna.
Full-text: Shashakarni.
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