Svaksha, Svakṣa, Su-aksha: 8 definitions
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Svaksha has 7 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Svakṣa can be transliterated into English as Svaksa or Svaksha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchSvakṣa (स्वक्ष):—1. adj. eine schöne Achse habend: ratha [Rāmāyaṇa 6, 86, 4.] m. ein Wagen mit schönen Achsen [Mahābhārata 2, 1915] (tvakṣān st. svakṣān ed. Bomb. = śakaṭān [Nīlakaṇṭha]).
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Svakṣa (स्वक्ष):—2.
1) adj. (f. ī) schönäugig [Mahābhārata 8, 1110.] [Rāmāyaṇa 7, 5, 41.] [LAGHUJ. 2, 14.] —
2) m. pl. Nomen proprium eines Volkes [Mahābhārata 6, 353] [?(Viṣṇupurāṇa 188).]
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: Aksha, Ksha, Sv, Shva, Cu, Shu.
Starts with: Svakshapada, Svakshara, Svaksharita, Svakshatra.
Full-text: Aksha.
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