Taranatha, Tārānātha, Tara-natha: 7 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchTāranātha (तारनाथ):—(wohl tārā [s. tāra 17, c] + nātha; über die Kürzung des Auslauts vgl. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 6, 3, 63]) m. Nomen proprium eines am Anfange des 17ten Jahrhunderts n. Chr. lebenden berühmten Tibeters, Verfassers einer Geschichte des Buddhismus, [Lebensbeschreibung Śākyamuni’s] in Mél. asiat. [II, 360. fg.] [WASSILJEW 37.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungTāranātha (तारनाथ):—m. Nomen proprium eines Gelehrten am Anfange des 17yrn Jahrh.
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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