The Student's Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Containing Appendices on Sanskrit Prosody and Important Literary and Geographical Names in the Ancient History of IndiaThe present Dictionary is designed to meet the long-felt need of the English knowing reader, who is interested in the study of classical as well as modern Sanskrit. It covers a very large field-epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Puranas and Upapuranas, Smrti and Niti literature, Darsanas or Systems of Philosophy, such as Nyaya, Vedanta, Mimamsa, Sankhya and Yoga, Grammar, Rhetoric, Poetry in all its branches, Dramatic and Narrative literature, Mathematics, Medicine, Botany, Astronomy Music and other technical or scientific branches of learning. Thus it embraces all words occurring in the general post-Vedic literature. It includes most of the important terms in Grammar. It gives quotations and references to the peculiar and remarkable meaning of words, especially such as occur in books prescribed for study in the Indian and foreign universities. It also renders explanation of important technical terms occurring in different branches of Sanskrit learning. To add to its usefulness, |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 120 |
Section 3 | 125 |
Section 4 | 174 |
Section 5 | 177 |
Section 6 | 197 |
Section 7 | 212 |
Section 8 | 225 |
Section 12 | 252 |
Section 13 | 259 |
Section 14 | 358 |
Section 15 | 451 |
Section 16 | 453 |
Section 17 | 486 |
Section 18 | 543 |
Section 19 | 565 |
Other editions - View all
The Student's Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Containing Appendices on Sanskrit ... Vaman Shivaram Apte No preview available - 1963 |
The Student's Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Containing Appendices on Sanskrit ... Vaman Shivaram Apte No preview available - 1988 |
Common terms and phrases
Amaru Arjuna arrow Asuras Bhima Bhishma bird body Brahmâ Brahmana Brihaspati caste Caus cause censure cloud deity demon desire Drona elephant end of comp epithet of Siva epithet of Vishnu female fire flower Garuda hair horse husband Indra Kamsa Kartikeya Kauravas Killing kind king Krishna Kshatriya Kubera lotus lunar Mål Malli means ment moon mountain one's oneself pain Pandavas plant Ratn Ravana religious rite river sacred sacrifice sense sound Supreme spirit tion tree Varuna Vedas Vikr Vishnu wicked wife woman word Yama Yudhishthira अपि इति इव एव कः का किं की खलु तं तथा तु ते धर्म नाम नी पतिः मे यः यथा यदि वा सा हि