Shrinagara, Shri-nagara, Śrīnagara: 7 definitions
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Shrinagara has 6 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śrīnagara can be transliterated into English as Srinagara or Shrinagara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚrīnagara (श्रीनगर):—n. Nomen proprium einer Stadt [Oxforder Handschriften 43,b,1.] [Hitopadeśa 86,3, v. l.] [KṢITĪŚ. 44,2.] [Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde.1,40. 51.] [Hiouen-Thsang 2,322.] śrīnagarī f. desgl. [Rājataraṅgiṇī 1, 104. 124. 129. 306. 4, 6.]
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: Shri, Nagara, Nakara.
Full-text: Manidvipa, Alakananda, Shrikhanda, Shripura, Prajapala, Vyapya, Shrigohali, Nagara, Samadhigupta, Srinagar, Pataliputra.
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Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)
Part 2: Previous birth of Mahāpadma < [Chapter VIII - Śrī Mahāpadmacakricaritra]
Lalitopakhyana (Lalita Mahatmya) (by G.V. Tagare)
Chapter 38 - Procedure of Practising the Royal mantra
Chapter 32 - Manifestation of the guardian deities
Chapter 37 - Description of other inner Apartments in the Royal Chamber
The Devi Bhagavata Purana (by Swami Vijñanananda)
The backdrop of the Srikanthacarita and the Mankhakosa (by Dhrubajit Sarma)
Part 8b - Oceans, rivers and lakes (found in the Śrīkaṇṭhacarita) < [Chapter IV - Socio-cultural study of the Śrīkaṇṭhacarita]
Settlement in Early Historic Ganga Plain (by Chirantani Das)
Part 8 - Growth of Secondary Sites (Nālandā and Sārnāth) < [Conclusion]
Part 7 - Nalanda’s Rise of a Multi-functional Nodal Centre < [Chapter III - Nālandā: Evidence for rise and progress of the settlement]
Bodhisattvacharyavatara (by Andreas Kretschmar)
Text Section 93 < [Khenpo Chöga’s Oral Explanations]