Svadesha, Svadēśa, Svadeśa, Sva-desha: 10 definitions
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Svadesha has 9 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit terms Svadēśa and Svadeśa can be transliterated into English as Svadesa or Svadesha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Swadesh.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSvadeśa (स्वदेश):—m.
1) seine Stelle Comm. zu [Taittirīyasaṃhitā] [Prātiśākhya 1, 59.] —
2) der eigene Wohnort, Heimath (Gegens. paradeśa, videśa) [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 167.] [Spr. (II) 3239. 4788. 7118. 7277.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 20, 166. 34, 201.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 411. 605. 620.5, 457.] [Hitopadeśa ed. JOHNS. 1757. 2450.] pl. so v. a. Bewohner des eigenen Landes, die eigenen Unterthanen [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 14, 21.]
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: Desha, Shva, Teca.
Starts with: Svadesha-nissarana, Svadesha-pratipreshana, Svadesha-prema, Svadeshabandhu, Svadeshabhakti, Svadeshabhimana, Svadeshabhimani, Svadeshabhodaya, Svadeshabhumivritta, Svadeshaja, Svadeshaksha, Svadeshamadhyaparidhi, Svadeshaparidhi, Svadeshapremi, Svadeshasmarin, Svadeshatyagi, Svadeshodaya.
Full-text: Svadeshamadhyaparidhi, Svadeshaparidhi, Svadeshabandhu, Svadeshasmarin, Svadeshaja, Smarin, Svadanaparidhi, Svadeshaksha, Svadeshabhumivritta, Svadeshodaya, Svadeshabhodaya, Swadesh, Paradesha, Samutsuka, Videsa, Rati.
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