Shatanga, Śatāṅga, Shata-anga, Shatamga: 8 definitions
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Shatanga has 7 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śatāṅga can be transliterated into English as Satanga or Shatanga, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚatāṅga (शताङ्ग):—(1. śata + 3. aṅga)
1) adj. hunderterlei: tūryāṇi [Mahābhārata 1, 7056.] —
2) m. a) Kriegswagen [Amarakoṣa 2, 8, 2, 19.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 751.] [Halāyudha 2, 289.] — b) Dalbergia ougeinensis Roxb. [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] — c) Nomen proprium eines Dānava [Harivaṃśa 12935.]
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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