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Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wisdom Library: Brihat Samhita by Varahamihira

Sitaturaga (सिततुरग) refers to “white horses”, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 16) (“On the planets—graha-bhaktiyoga”), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “The Moon presides over citadels fortified by hills or by water, over Kosala, Bharukaccha, the sea, the city of Roma, the country of Tuṣāra, dwellers in forests, the islands of Taṅgaṇa, Hala and Strīrājya in the big seas. [...] She also presides over fine white horses [e.g., sitaturaga], charming young women, commanders of armies, articles of food, clothes, horned animals, the Rākṣasas, farmers and Śrotiyas. [...]”

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Sitaturaga (सिततुरग).—Name of Arjuna; सिततुरगे विजयं न पुष्पमासः (sitaturage vijayaṃ na puṣpamāsaḥ) Kirātārjunīya 1.35.

Derivable forms: sitaturagaḥ (सिततुरगः).

Sitaturaga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sita and turaga (तुरग).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sitaturaga (सिततुरग):—[=sita-turaga] [from sita] m. ‘wh°-horsed’, Name of Arjuna, [Kirātārjunīya]

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Sitaturaga (ಸಿತತುರಗ):—

1) [noun] a white horse.

2) [noun] Arjuna, the hero of Mahābhārata, the horses of whose chariot were white.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Turaga, Sita.

Full-text: Sitahaya, Sitavahana.

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