Suvarnadvipa, Suvarṇadvīpa, Suvarna-dvipa: 10 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSuvarṇadvīpa (सुवर्णद्वीप):—m. n. Goldinsel d. i. wohl Sumatra [Mémoire géographique 39.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 54,100. 56,62. 123,110.] [Oxforder Handschriften 66,a,1.] [TĀRAN. 161. 263.] — Vgl. svarṇadvīpa .
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: Dvipa, Suvarna.
Full-text (+20): Cakravarmini, Svarnashuktika, Suvarnabhumi, Svarnadvipa, Akashagarbha, Vajradaka, Pretapuri, Saurashtra, Sum, Candrashekhara, Upamelapaka, Candika, Butea frondosa, Palasha, Dharmakirti, Kudangadvipa, Shipwreck, Nagara, Kudanga, Lankapuri.
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