Shodasha, Shodashan, Ṣoḍaśa, Ṣoḍaśan, Sodasa: 33 definitions

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Shodasha means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Shodasha has 31 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit terms Ṣoḍaśa and Ṣoḍaśan can be transliterated into English as Sodasa or Shodasha or Sodasan or Shodashan, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Shodash.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Ṣoḍaśa (षोडश):—

1) adj. (f. ī) a) der sechzehnte: Tag [Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 15, 12, 20.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 6, 2, 2, 9.] kalā [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 4, 3, 22.] [Ṣaḍviṃśabrāhmaṇa 4, 6.] varṣa [ĀŚV. GṚHY.1,18,2. 19,5.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch.2,38. 65. 86.] [KĀM. NĪTIS.9,4.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S.6,4.] [Oxforder Handschriften 43,a,19.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa.2,9,6.] kalāṃ nārhati ṣoḍaśīm [Mahābhārata 3, 12276. 7, 1544.] [Spr. (II) 1742.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 109, 33.] [PAÑCAR. 4, 3, 214.] aṃśa [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 11, 126.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 106.] bhāga [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 2, 17.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 78, 20. 108, 1.] n. ein Sechzehntel [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 3, 29, 1] [?(Prātiśākha zum Atharvaveda 1, 63). Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 53, 12.] am Ende eines adj. comp. (f. ā): vṛṣabhaṣoḍaśāḥ (so ist mit der v. l. zu lesen) so v. a. fünfzehn Kühe und ein Stier [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 9, 124.] — b) mit sechzehn verbunden: varṣaśatam hundertundsechzehn Jahre [Chāndogyopaniṣad 3, 16, 7.] — c) aus sechzehn bestehend: stoma [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 9, 34.] stotra [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 6, 6, 11, 1.] [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa 17, 1, 1. 2, 2.] [LĀṬY. 6, 8, 8.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 1, 50.] — d) fehlerhaft für ṣoḍaśan sechzehn: ṣoḍaśairvānaraiḥ [WEBER, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad 327.] —

2) f. ī Name einer der zehn Mahāvidyā [Notices of Skt. Mss. 213. 259.] [Oxforder Handschriften 93], b, [18. 28. 101], b, [?10 (pl.). PAÑCAR. 2, 5, 48. fg. 51.] — Vgl. pari .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Ṣoḍaśan (षोडशन्):—(ṣaṣ + daśan) adj. sechzehn [Prātiśākhya zur Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 3, 46. 5, 37.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 3, 109, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 3.] nom. acc. ḍaśa, daśabhis, ḍaśabhyas, ḍaśānām, ḍaśasu . [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 18, 25.] Windungen der Schlange [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 5, 4, 5, 4. 7, 2, 11, 2.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 7, 2, 2, 17.] kalāḥ [10, 4, 1, 17. 11, 1, 6, 36.] ṛtvijaḥ [10, 4, 1, 19.] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 14, 3, 11.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā Prātiśākhya 1, 5.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 46. 8, 134. 136. fg. 11, 248.] [Harivaṃśa 8351.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 70, 20. 4, 25, 26.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 21, 30. 23, 6.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 46, 36.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 1, 86. 6, 256.] [Daśakumāracarita 70, 8.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 11, 31. 2, 4, 23.] dānāni [Oxforder Handschriften 87,a,37.] ḍaśamahādānam 45, a, 27. śrāddhāni [87,a,26. fg. 294,a,18.] ḍaśaśrāddhakrama [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 1121.] nityā nyāsāḥ [Oxforder Handschriften 93], b, [26. fg.] (vgl. [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 1336]). upacārāḥ [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 1104. 1150.] [Oxforder Handschriften 249], a, [3. 284], a, [34.] [WEBER, KṚṢṆAJ. 255. 268. 277. 279. 289.] yogāḥ [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 876. 881.] oṃkārāḥ [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 1, 2, 34, Scholiast] ḍaśamātṛkāḥ [Śrāddhatattva im Śabdakalpadruma] ḍaśadhruvāṇāṃ nāmāni [Oxforder Handschriften 87,a,7. 8.] ḍaśādhāra [236,a, No. 567.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 649.] ḍaśaliṅgodbhavaṃ maṇḍalam [920. fg.] ḍaśakaraṇapūjā [WILSON, Sel. Works 1, 322.] ḍaśastrīsahasreśa [PAÑCAR. 4, 1, 21.] ḍaśavistṛta [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 29, 74.] ḍaśapada [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 4, 1.] ḍaśavarṣa [Pāraskara’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 2, 1.] ūnaṣoḍaśavarṣa [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 1, 23, 2.] ḍaśāra [NṚS. TĀP. Upakośā] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 9, 110.] [WEBER, KṚṢṆAJ. 272.] [KĀLACAKRA 4, 101.] ḍaśākṣa [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 32, 13.] ḍaśadala [WEBER, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad 306. 319. fg.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 9, 113.]

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