Vishvantara, Viśvantara, Viśvāntara: 4 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Viśvantara and Viśvāntara can be transliterated into English as Visvantara or Vishvantara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchViśvāntara (विश्वान्तर):—m. Nomen proprium eines Fürsten [Kathāsaritsāgara 113, 9.] — Vgl. viśvaṃtara .
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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