Varanga, Varāṅga, Vara-anga, Varamga: 15 definitions

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Varāṅga (वराङ्ग):—1. (4. vara + 3. aṅga) n.

1) der schönste Körpertheil: a) Kopf [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 3, 27.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 567.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 131.] [Medinīkoṣa g. 44.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 66, 10.] [VARĀH.] [BṚH. 1, 4.] — b) die weibliche Scham [Amarakoṣa] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 6, 21] (vavāṅga fälschlich gedr.). [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 609.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Halāyudha.2,359.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 17,144. 147. 28,177.] [Oxforder Handschriften 85,b,46.] —

2) Hauptstück [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 47, 2.]

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Varāṅga (वराङ्ग):—2. (wie eben)

1) adj. in allen seinen Theilen schön: rūpopeta als Erklärung von siṃhasaṃhanana [Amarakoṣa 3, 1, 12.] —

2) m. a) Elephant [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 8, 34. 3, 3, 69.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 131.] [Medinīkoṣa g. 44.] — b) Bez. des Nakṣatra- Jahres von 324 Tagen [WEBER, Nakṣ. 2, 281.] — c) Bez. Viṣṇu’s [Śabdakalpadruma] nach [VIṢṆU][?’s SAHASRANĀMASTOTRA.] —

3) f. ī a) Gelbwurz [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] — b) Nomen proprium einer Tochter Dṛṣadvant’s und Gattin Saṃyāti’s [Mahābhārata 1, 3767.] —

4) n. a) grober Zimmt, Kassiarinde oder dgl. [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 69.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] — b) Sauerampfer v. l. in [Ratnamālā] nach [Śabdakalpadruma] u. varāṅgin .

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Vāraṅga (वारङ्ग):—[Uṇādisūtra 1, 121.] m. Heft, Griff [UJJVAL.] [Suśruta 1, 24, 10. 101, 1. 2.] [VĀGBH. 25, 14.]

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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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