Shitamshu, Śītaṃśu, Śītāṃśu, Shita-amshu, Sitamshu, Sitāṃśu, Sita-amshu: 13 definitions
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Shitamshu has 12 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit terms Śītaṃśu and Śītāṃśu and Sitāṃśu can be transliterated into English as Sitamsu or Shitamshu or Sitamshu, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚītāṃśu (शीतांशु):—(śīta + aṃśu)
1) adj. kaltstrahlig: der Mond [Mahābhārata 1, 1145.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 35, 17 (36, 17 Gorresio).] Davon nom. abstr. tā f. [Mahābhārata 1, 4162. 3, 15100.] tva n. [9, 2052.] —
2) m. a) der Mond [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 105,] [Scholiast] [Halāyudha 5, 70.] [Mahābhārata 3, 3008.] [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 11, 4. 7, 23, 4, 20.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 4, 25. 27. 17, 6.] [BṚH. 6, 9.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 835.] [Spr. (II) 2322] (doppelsinnig). [5242.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 59, 3. 62, 39.] [Gītagovinda 9, 10.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 99, 4.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 2, 10.] [Dhūrtasamāgama 67, 18.] — b) Kampfer (wie alle Wörter für Mond) [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] taila Kampferoel ebend.
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Sitāṃśu (सितांशु):—m.
1) der Mond (weissstrahlig) [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 105,] [Scholiast] [Spr. (II) 1039. 2655.] [Naiṣadhacarita 1, 12.] —
2) Kampfer (wie alle Wörter für Mond): taila [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma]
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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Starts with: Shitamshubhaj, Shitamshumant, Shitamshumat, Shitamshuta, Shitamshutaila, Shitamshutva.
Ends with: Vishuvatpurnashitamshu.
Full-text: Shitamshutaila, Sitashu, Shitamshumant, Shitamshuta, Shitamshumat, Shitamshutva, Shitamshubhaj, Gharmadidhiti, Tapta, Shivagupta, Murdhanya.
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