Shvetavahana, Śvetavāhana, Shveta-vahana: 9 definitions
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Shvetavahana has 8 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Śvetavāhana can be transliterated into English as Svetavahana or Shvetavahana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚvetavāhana (श्वेतवाहन):—
1) adj. mit Schimmeln fahrend. —
2) m. a) der Mond [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa.3, 3, 265.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 10.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 5, 33.] [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 248.] — b) eine Form Śiva’s [Harivaṃśa 7987. 7990.] — c) ein Beiname Arjuna's [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Mahābhārata 1, 7374. 3, 10532. 4, 1349. 1375. 1382.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss 114.] — d) ein Beiname Bhadrāśva’s [Oxforder Handschriften 58,a,35.] — e) Nomen proprium eines Sohnes des Rājādhideva [Harivaṃśa 2033.]
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: Shveta, Vahana.
Full-text: Bhadrashva, Rajadhideva, Arjuna.
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