Shubhadanta, Śubhadanta: 3 definitions
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Shubhadanta has 2 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śubhadanta can be transliterated into English as Subhadanta or Shubhadanta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚubhadanta (शुभदन्त):—
1) adj. (f. ī) schöne Zähne habend [Medinīkoṣa t. 221.] —
2) f. ī Nomen proprium des Weibchens des Elephanten Puṣpadanta [Medinīkoṣa]; vgl. śubhradantī .
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: Shubha, Danta.
Full-text: Shubhadanti.
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