The Sanskrit term Vicāraśāstra can be transliterated into English as Vicarasastra or Vicarashastra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Vicharashastra.

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

Vicāraśāstra (विचारशास्त्र):—n. die Wissenschaft (das Lehrbuch) der Erörterung, insbes. der Abwägung gesetzlicher Vorschriften unter einander; es ist ein anderer Name für mīmāṃsāśāstra, insbes. pūrva . [Oxforder Handschriften 185,b,41.] Comm. in der Einl. zu [Jaimini] [SARVADARŚANAS. 123,14. fg. 124,4. 125,6. fgg. 126,12.] dharma [124, 5.]

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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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Partial matches: Shastra, Vicara.

Ends with: Dharmavicarashastra.

Full-text: Dharmavicarashastra, Bahya.

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