Trishiras, Triśiras, Tri-shiras: 12 definitions
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Trishiras has 10 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Triśiras can be transliterated into English as Trisiras or Trishiras, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchTriśiras (त्रिशिरस्):—(tri + śi)
1) adj. dreiköpfig, Beiw. und Beiname des tvāṣṭra viśvarūpa [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa 17, 5.] [BṚHADDEV.] in Z. f. vgl. [Spr. 1, 442.] [Kauṣītakyupaniṣad] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 409. fg.] vajrīva hi triśirasaṃ tad (mitraṃ) ucchindyātkṛtatvaraḥ [KĀM. NĪTIS. 8, 63.] [Mahābhārata 5, 229. fgg. 12, 13209. 13211.] angeblicher Verfasser von [Ṛgveda 10, 8] [Ṛgveda] [Anukramaṇikā] — jvarastu triśirāstripāt [Bhāgavatapurāṇa im Śabdakalpadruma] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 594.] dreispitzig: druma (dhvaja) [Mahābhārata 13, 6861.] [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 40, 53.] —
2) m. a) Nomen proprium eines von Viṣṇu getödteten Asura [Mahābhārata 9, 1755.] — b) Nomen proprium eines von Rāma getödteten Rākṣasa [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 3, 19. 3, 29, 32. 33, 1. 5, 18, 31. 79, 9. 6, 35, 17.] [Raghuvaṃśa 12, 47.] rakṣastriśira (neutr.) eva ca [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 45 (Gorresio 49.).] ein Rākṣasa überh. [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 37.] — c) Beiname Kuvera's [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 1, 78.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 189.]
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Triśiras (त्रिशिरस्):—
1) [Z. 5] die aus dem [Bhāgavatapurāṇa] angeführte Stelle steht [10, 63, 22]; vgl. [29.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungTriśiras (त्रिशिरस्):——
1) Adj. — a) dreiköpfig. — b) dreispitzig. —
2) m. — a) Nomen proprium — α) eines Hymnendichters. mit dem Patron. Tvāṣtra. — β) eines von Viṣṇu getödteten Asura. — γ) eines von Rāma getödteten Rakṣas. In Verbindung mit rakṣas n. auch n. — b) *ein Rakṣas. — c) *Beiname Kubera's.
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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