Vijijnasa, Vijijñāsā: 3 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchVijijñāsā (विजिज्ञासा):—(vom desid. von 1. jñā mit vi) f. das Verlangen zu erfahren, kennen zu lernen, Erkundigung [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 6, 1, 1.] [Mahābhārata 12, 11921.] tadvijijñāsayā [1, 4391.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 9, 16.]
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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