Shivamaya, Śivamaya, Shiva-maya, Śivamāyā: 6 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Śivamaya and Śivamāyā can be transliterated into English as Sivamaya or Shivamaya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚivamaya (शिवमय):—(von śiva) adj. (f. ī, aus metrischen Rücksichten auch ā).
1) voller Heil: sadā saṃtuṣṭamanasaḥ sarvāḥ śivamayā diśaḥ [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 7, 15, 17.] —
2) ganz Śiva ergeben [Kathāsaritsāgara 115, 140.]
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: Shiva, Maya, Civa.
Ends with: Sadashivamaya.
Full-text: Maya, Danavarshabha, Shiveccha.
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