Vanavasaka, Vanavāsaka, Vānavāsaka: 4 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchVanavāsaka (वनवासक):—m. pl. Nomen proprium eines Volkes [Mahābhārata 6, 366.] vāsika ed. Bomb. vānavāsaka [Viṣṇupurāṇa 192.] in der 2ten Aufl. ([II, 178]) vanavāsaka; als Varianten werden in beiden Ausgg. vānavāsika und vānavāsin aufgeführt. — Vgl. vanavāsin, vanavāsya, vānavāsaka .
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Vānavāsaka (वानवासक):—
1) adj. (f. vāsikā) zum Volke der Vanavāsaka gehörig: vānavāsikāḥ striyaḥ [Oxforder Handschriften 217,b,20.] —
2) f. vāsikā ein best. Metrum [Colebrooke II, 86. 155.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 315. 318.]
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: Vana, Vasaka.
Full-text: Vanavasika, Vanavasin, Dakshinapatha.
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