Mahayashas, Ѳⲹ, Ѳⲹś, Mahayasha, Ѳⲹśs, Mahayasa, Maha-yashas, Ѳⲹś: 23 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Ѳⲹś and Ѳⲹśs and Ѳⲹś can be transliterated into English as Mahayasa or Mahayasha or Mahayasas or Mahayashas, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
: archive.org: Puranic EncyclopediaѲⲹśs (महायशस�).—A woman follower of Subrahmaṇya. (Ѳٲ Śalya Parva, Chapter 46, Verse 28).
: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English TranslationѲⲹśs (महायशस�) refers to “one of great glory� and is used to describe Brahmā, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.5.1 (“Description of Tripura�the three cities�).—Accordingly, as Sanatkumāra narrated to Vyāsa: “O great sage, when the Asura Tāraka was killed by Skanda, the son of Śiva, his three sons performed austerities. [...] Satisfied by their penance, Brahmā the supreme lord of the gods and Asuras, of great glory (ⲹś), appeared in front of them in order to grant them boons. He was accompanied by sages, gods and Asuras. The grandfather of all living beings spoke to them thus, appeasing them. [...]�.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexѲⲹś (महाय�).—A son of Samkṛti; married Satkṛtī and had two sons, Gurudhi and Rantideva.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 49. 36-7.
Ѳⲹś (महायशा) refers to the name of a Lady mentioned in the Ѳٲ (cf. IX.45.27). Note: The Ѳٲ (mentioning Ѳⲹś) is a Sanskrit epic poem consisting of 100,000 śǰ첹 (metrical verses) and is over 2000 years old.

The Purana (पुरा�, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesOf Thaton, author of the Kaccayanabheda and the Kaccayanasara. He probably belonged to the fourteenth century. Bode, op. cit., 36f.; Svd.1250.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
: archive.org: The Indian Buddhist IconographyѲⲹś (महायशा) is one of the twenty-four Goddesses surrounding ܻ첹 in the ܻ첹ṇḍ, according to the 5th-century Բ (a collection of Բ texts that contain detailed instructions for rituals).—ܻ첹� refers to one of the various emanations of ṣoⲹ and the Բ says that when Heruka is embraced by Citrasenā he gets the name of ܻ첹.—Ѳⲹś� stands in the south-west of the outermost circle. She has a blue colour two arms, one face, ornaments of bones, brown hair rising upwards but no garlands of heads. She carries the 첹 in the left and the kartri in the right, and dances in the 貹ⲹṅk attitude.

Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (Բ) are collected indepently.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
: archive.org: TrisastisalakapurusacaritraѲⲹśs (महायशस�) is the son of Ādityaⲹś and grandson of Cakrin Bharata, according to chapter 2.6 [ᾱٲٳ-ٰ] of Hemacandra’s 11th century Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacaritra: an ancient Sanskrit epic poem narrating the history and legends of sixty-three illustrious persons in Jainism.
Accordingly, as king Sagara said: “[...] Cakrin Bharata had a son, Ādityaⲹś, a sun in powerful splendor, not deficient in strength. Ѳⲹśs was the son of Ādityaⲹś, his glory sung to the ends of the earth, the crest-jewel of all the powerful. A son, Atibala, was born to him, ruling the earth with unbroken authority like Ākhaṇḍala. [...]�.

Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance�) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryyasa : (adj.) of great fame.
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionaryyasa (မဟာယ�) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
[mahanta+yasa]
မȶĔĹ�+ယĞ]
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)ⲹ�
(Burmese text): (�) များစွာသေ� စည်းစိမ်ဥစ္စာ။ (�) များသောအခြံအရံ။ (တ�)(�) များသေ� အခြံအရံရှိသော၊ သူ။ (�) ပြန့်ပြောသေ� ကျော်စောသံရှိသော၊ သူ။(�) ကြီးသေ� အာနုဘော်ရှိသော၊ သူ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Many ornaments. (2) Many accessories. (3) He who has many accessories. (4) He who has a loud, renowned voice. (5) He who has great stature.

Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Sanskrit dictionary
: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryѲⲹśs (महायशस�).�a. very famous, renowned, celebrated.
Ѳⲹśs is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms and ⲹś (यशस्).
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryѲⲹśs (महायशस�).�(1) name of a past Buddha: Ѳ屹ٳ i.117.12 (verse), °yaśo, n. sg.; (2) name of a Bodhisattva or future Buddha: Ҳṇḍū 442.22; (3) name of a yakṣa: Ѳ-ūī 73; (4) name of a kalpa, in which lived 300 Buddhas successively, all named Jinendra: Ѳ屹ٳ iii.237.19 (verse), °ⲹśmi�, loc. sg.; (5) f., name of a goddess: Բ 502.12, °śā(�), n. sg.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryѲⲹśs (महायशस�).—mfn.
(-ś�-ś�-ś�) Illustrious, celebrated. m.
(-ś�) The fifth Jaina of the past era. E. great, ⲹś fame.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryѲⲹśs (महायशस�).—adj. illustrious, [峾ⲹṇa] 3, 55, 38.
Ѳⲹśs is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms and ⲹś (यशस्).
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryѲⲹśs (महायशस�).—[adjective] very glorious.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumѲⲹśs (महायशस�) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Quoted by Raghunandana: Gobhilīyaśrāddhakalpabhāṣya.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Ѳⲹśs (महायशस�):—[=-ⲹś] [from > mah] mfn. very glorious or renowned or celebrated, [Ѳٲ; Harivaṃśa; 峾ⲹṇa] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] m. Name of the fourth Arhat of the past Utsarpiṇ�, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) [v.s. ...] of a learned man, [Catalogue(s)]
4) [v.s. ...] f. Name of one of the Mātṛs attending on Skanda, [Ѳٲ]
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryѲⲹ (महाय�):—[from > mah] () mfn. having much iron (as an arrow which has a large point, [Nīlakaṇṭha]), [Ѳٲ]
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryѲⲹśs (महायशस�):—[-ⲹś] (ś�) 5. m. The fifth Jaina of the past era. a. Illustrious.
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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: Yashas, Yasa, Maha, Mahanta.
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