Vasudana, Vasudāna: 6 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchVasudāna (वसुदान):—
1) adj. dass. [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6, 82, 3.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 7, 2, 29.] —
2) m. Nomen proprium eines Fürsten von Pāṃsurāṣṭra [Mahābhārata 2, 122. 1884. 1914. 6, 2110. 7, 8724.] eines Sohnes des Bṛhadratha (vgl. Vasudāman) [Viṣṇupurāṇa 462.] des Hiraṇyaretas und Name eines nach ihm benannten Varṣa [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 20, 15.]
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Dana, Vasu, Tana.
Starts with: Vasudanaputra.
Full-text: Vasudaman, Pamsu, Hiranyaretas, Abhibhu, Shatanika.
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The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
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Women in the Atharva-veda Samhita (by Pranab Jyoti Kalita)
3. Hymn to Obtain a Wife < [Chapter 2 - The Strīkarmāṇi Hymns of the Atharvaveda]
Mahabharata (English) (by Kisari Mohan Ganguli)
The Vishnu Purana (by Horace Hayman Wilson)
The Devi Bhagavata Purana (by Swami Vijñanananda)
A Historical Study of Kaushambi (by Nirja Sharma)
Political History of Vatsa < [Chapter 2]