Svamin, Svāmin, Svāmi, Svami: 25 definitions

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Svāmin (स्वामिन्):—(von sva) [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 2, 126.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 7, 32. fg.]

1) m. a) Eigenthümer, Herr, Gebieter (Gegens. Untergebener, Unterthan, Diener, Knecht, Gattin) [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 1, 32. 8, 1, 17. 3, 1, 10.] [TRIR. 3, 3, 272.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 359. 714.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 291.] [Medinīkoṣa Nalopākhyāna 151.] [Halāyudha 2, 188. 5, 39.] [LĀṬY. 10, 17, 17.] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 6, 9. 7, 20. 8, 31. 12, 1, 8.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 7, 167. 8, 4. 5. 30. fg. 150. 173. 197. 199. 230. 233. 244. 293. 414. 9, 294.] [Mahābhārata 3, 2364.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 8, 3. 4, 25, 7. 5, 38, 39.] [Spr. (II) 344. 1710. 2013. 2839. 5775. 7150. 7160. 7341. fgg.] [Śākuntala 23, 5. 11.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 46, 55. 50, 8. 61, 18.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 333.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 14, 22. 7, 10, 4. 5.] [Daśakumāracarita 61, 13.] [Sāhityadarpana 431.] [Hitopadeśa 4, 5. 40, 11. 41, 1. ed. JOHNS. 1412. 1531.] [Vetālapañcaviṃśati] in [Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 18, 7. 27, 3.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 179, 12.] mit gen. oder loc. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 3, 39.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 5, 29.] gavām oder goṣu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher, Scholiast] sainyasya [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 1, 69.] lokasya [6, 102, 9.] asmākam [Kathāsaritsāgara 18, 144.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 16, 5.] paśuṣu [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 229. 234.] bhuvi [Spr. (II) 5005.] svāmī kṛtaśca (so trennen wir) viṣaye bakakacchanāmni [Kathāsaritsāgara 6, 166.] in comp. mit der Ergänzung, die ihren Accent behält, [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 2, 17.] go, aśva [Scholiast] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 231.] yāna 290. dik [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 35, 4.] caura [69, 27.] horā [BṚH. 1, 19.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 25, 46. 36, 44.] sattvadhana [Pañcatantra 24, 17.] tannagara [morgenländischen Gesellschaft 14, 571, 21.] seneva susvāminā ein guter Anführer [Spr. (II) 2617.] — b) ein N. Kārttikeya’s [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa.1,1,56.3,3,272.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 208.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Halāyudha.1,19.] [Jaṭādhara] in [Oxforder Handschriften 191,a,27.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch.1,293.] Viṣṇu’s und Śiva’s [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] Garuḍa’s [ŚABDĀRTHAK.] bei [WILSON.] — c) Standbild eines Gottes, insbes. Śiva’s [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 23.] häufig in dieser Bed. am Ende eines comp. — d) Nomen proprium verschiedener Männer: der 11te Arhant der vergangenen Utsarpiṇī [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 51.] = vātsyāyana [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 7, 23.] ein Lexicograph [Colebrooke 2, 20. 49.] = kṣīrasvāmin [Oxforder Handschriften 113,a,38. 183,a,3.] —

2) f. Herrin, Gebieterin [Mahābhārata 4, 423.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 12, 85.] gṛhe [29, 72.] prāṇeṣu, dhaneṣu [52, 315.] yuṣmat [26, 42. 81, 56.] — Vgl. abhimanyu, avanti, ku, kṣīra, go, govinda, jagat, jaya, durlabha, dharma, dhūrta, narendra, pakṣi, pṛthūdaka, prabhākara, brahma, bhaṭṭa, bhadrabāhu, bharata, bhartṛ, bhava, bhīma, bhūmi, bhoga, makha, mākṣika, mārtaṇḍatilaka, mukta, yajña, raṇa, ratna, rāma, rudra, vajra, vāmana, vilāsa, viṣṇu, vīra, śaṃkara, śiva, śrī, saṃgama, samara, siṃha, hara, hari .

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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.

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