Vasudeva, Vāsudeva, Vasudevā, Vāsudevā, Vasu-deva: 51 definitions

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Vasudeva means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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

Vasudeva (वसुदेव):—adj. die Vasu zu Göttern habend, ein Verehrer der Vasu; Vasu zum Regenten habend:

1) m. a) Nomen proprium eines Fürsten aus dem Stamme der Vṛṣṇi, Vaters des Kṛṣṇa, [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher.4,1,114, Scholiast] [Amarakoṣa.1,1,1,17.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 223.] [Halāyudha.1,27.] [Mahābhārata.1,2428. 2764. 5905.7,6031. 6034. 13,6837. ] [Harivaṃśa 1923. 1947. 3163. fgg. 3308. fgg. 5090. 5254. 7993. fgg. 8144. 9085.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa.1,11,17.9,24,22. 27. 29. 45. 51.] [Oxforder Handschriften 27,a,23. 43. 53,b,28. 190,b,15.] [WEBER, KṚṢṆAJ. 282. fgg. 288. fgg. 296. fg. 306.] [WASSILJEW 215.] — b) Beiw. Kṛṣṇa’s neben vāsudeva, vasuśreṣṭha u.s.w. [PAÑCAR. 4, 8, 33.] — c) Nomen proprium eines Fürsten aus der KaṇvaDynastie [Viṣṇupurāṇa 471.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 12, 1, 18.] [HALL] in der Einl. zu [VĀSAVAD. 53.] — d) Nomen proprium des Grossvaters des Dichters Māgha [Oxforder Handschriften 118,a, No. 194.] —

2) n. Bez. des Nakṣatra Dhaniṣṭhā (vasu = dhana) [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 7, 11.] daiva v. l. — Vgl. vāsudeva .

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Vāsudeva (वासुदेव):—1. m.

1) patron. von vasudeva [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 114, Scholiast] Śṛgāla [Harivaṃśa 5321. 5639. 5674.fg.] ein Fürst der Puṇḍra [?6582. 15179. fgg. 15326. Mahābhārata 1, 6992. 2, 584. 1096. insbes.] Bez. Kṛṣṇa’s oder Viṣṇu’s [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 1, 15.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 215.] [Halāyudha 1, 23.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 3, 98.] [Taittirīyāraṇyaka 10, 1, 6.] [Bhagavadgītā 7, 19.] vṛṣṇīnāṃ vāsudevo smi sagt Kṛṣṇa [?10, 37. 11, 50. 18, 74. VASIṢṬHA bei MÜLLER, SL. 55. AMṚTABINDŪP. in Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 252.] yastu nārāyaṇo nāma devadevaḥ sanātanaḥ . tasyāṃśo mānuṣeṣvāsīdvāsudevaḥ pratāpavān .. [Mahābhārata 1, 2785. 6997. 7080.] vasanātsarvabhūtānāṃ vasutvāddevayonitaḥ . vāsudevastato vedyaḥ [3, 2562.] vāsuścāsau devaśceti vāsudevaḥ . tathā ca smṛtiḥ . sarvatrāsau samastaṃ ca vasatyatreti vai yataḥ . tato sau vāsudeveti vidvadbhiḥ parigīyate .. [UJJVAL. a. a. O.] [Mahābhārata 12, 12904.] [Harivaṃśa 4183. fg. 5321.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 41, 2 (42, 2 Gorresio). 25.] vāsudevasya bhaktaḥ [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 69, 32.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 1. 9. 274. 643.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 26, 21. 5, 12, 11.] [Pañcatantra 44, 19.] yadā sa bhagavānvāsudevaḥ parabrahmākhyaḥ sisṛkṣurbhavati . tadā tasmātsaṃkarṣaṇākhyoṃ śo nirgatya prakṛtipuruṣayoḥ kṣobhaṃ janayati Comm. zu [GOLĀDHY. 3, 1.] ta ete vāsudevasaṃkarṣaṇapradyumnāniruddhā iti mūrtibhedā vaiṣṇavāgame viśeṣataḥ prasiddhāḥ ebend. [Madhusūdanasarasvatī’s Prasthānabheda] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 23, 5. 6.] [SARVADARŚANAS. 54, 14. fgg. 57, 15.] Am Ende eines adj. comp. f. ā [PAÑCAR. 3, 2, 4.] neun schwarze Vāsudeva bei den Jaina [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 695. fgg.] Vgl. prati . —

2) Pferd [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 178]; vgl. lakṣmīputra . —

3) Nomen proprium verschiedener Fürsten und Gelehrten u.s.w. Inschr. in [Journ. of the Am. Or. S. 7,4, Śloka 4.] [Oxforder Handschriften 72,a,43. 124,b,37. 132,b,5. 135,a, No. 254. 237,b, No. 569. 292,b,11. 321,a, No. 761. 384,b, No. 476.] [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 265. 489. fgg. 940.] [Weber’s Indische Studien.1,470.] [HALL 7. 109. 112. 143. 182. 192.]

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Vāsudeva (वासुदेव):—2.

1) adj. (f. ī) a) zu Vāsudeva (dem Gotte) in Beziehung stehend: dvādaśākṣara [NṚS. TĀP. Upakośā] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 9, 112.] — b) von einem Vāsudeva verfasst: paddhati [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 266.] —

2) n. Name einer Upaniṣad [Weber’s Indische Studien 3, 325.] vāsudevopaniṣad [Oxforder Handschriften 390,b, No. 35.]

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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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