Manakuta, Mānakūṭa: 4 definitions
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Manakuta means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarymānakūṭa : (m.) a false measure.
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionarymānakūṭa (မာနကူ�) [(pu,na) (ပု၊�)]�
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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
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryMānakūṭa (मानकूट).�(= Pali id.), cheating in measures: Śṣāsܳⲹ 269.2 na °ṭena (Bendall and Rouse false pretensions! the correct meaning is already found in Childers s.v. kūṭo); as [ܱī], one who cheats in measures: ṇḍī첹 402.10 (verse) mānakū- ṭānā� (KN wrongly add ca with only 1 ms.) yā gati� (Tibetan bre confirms māna, measure, yet WT, who cite Tibetan, read kānsya by em., with corrupt support from one or two mss.).
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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