Shashankashekhara, Śaśāṅkaśekhara, Shashanka-shekhara: 2 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śaśāṅkaśekhara can be transliterated into English as Sasankasekhara or Shashankashekhara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚaśāṅkaśekhara (शशाङ्कशेखर):—m. = śaśāṅkamukuṭa [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 6, 41.]
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: Sekhara, Shashanka.
Full-text: Shashankardha, Kartarimukha.
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