Viprashnika, Vipraśnikā: 7 definitions
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Viprashnika has 6 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit term Vipraśnikā can be transliterated into English as Viprasnika or Viprashnika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchVipraśnika (विप्रश्निक):—(von vipraśna) m. Schicksalsbefrager, Astrolog [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 483.] [Kāṭhaka-Recension] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 3, 470, 3] (wohl taṃ vi zu lesen). vipraśnikā f. [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 1, 20.] — Vgl. vaipraśnika .
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: Prashnika, Vi.
Full-text: Viprashna.
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