Shamkaracarya, 艢补峁僰补谤腻肠腻谤测补, Shamkara-acarya: 4 definitions
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The Sanskrit term 艢补峁僰补谤腻肠腻谤测补 can be transliterated into English as Samkaracarya or Shamkaracarya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Shamkaracharya.
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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary艢补峁僰补谤腻肠腻谤测补 (啶多啶曕ぐ啶距啶距ぐ啷嵿く).鈥擭ame of a celebrated teacher of Ved膩nta philosophy and reviver of Br膩hmanism.
Derivable forms: 艣补峁僰补谤腻肠腻谤测补岣� (啶多啶曕ぐ啶距啶距ぐ啷嵿く啶�).
艢补峁僰补谤腻肠腻谤测补 is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms 艣补峁僰补谤补 and 腻肠腻谤测补 (啶嗋啶距ぐ啷嵿く).
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary艢补峁僰补谤腻肠腻谤测补 (啶多啶曕ぐ啶距啶距ぐ啷嵿く).鈥擺masculine] [Name] of a celebrated scholar.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) 艢补峁僰补谤腻肠腻谤测补 (啶多啶曕ぐ啶距啶距ぐ啷嵿く):鈥擺from 艣补峁僰补谤补 > 艣补尘] a See below.
2) [from 艣补尘] b m. Name of various teachers and authors, ([especially]) of a celebrated teacher of the Ved膩nta philosophy and reviver of Br膩hmanism (he is thought to have lived between A.D. 788 and 820, but according to tradition he flourished 200 B.[Calcutta edition], and was a native of Kerala or Malabar; all accounts describe him as having led an erratic controversial life; his learning and sanctity were in such repute that he was held to have been an incarnation of 艢iva, and to have worked various miracles; he is said to have died at the age of thirty-two, and to have had four principal disciples, called Padma-p膩da, Hast膩malaka, Sure艣vara or Mandana, and Tro峁璦ka; another of his disciples, 膧nanda-giri, wrote a history of his controversial exploits, called 艢a峁僰ara-vijaya q.v.; tradition makes him the founder of one of the principal 艢aiva sects, the Da艣a-n膩mi-Da峁囜笉ins or 鈥楾en-named Mendicants鈥� [Religious Thought and Life in India 87]; he is the reputed author of a large number of original works, such as the 膧tma-bodha, 膧nanda-lahar墨, J帽膩na-bodhin墨, Ma峁噄-ratna-m膩l膩, etc.; and commentaries on the Upani峁ds, and on the Brahma-m墨m膩峁僺膩 or Ved膩nta-s奴tra, Bhagavadg墨t膩, and Mah膩-bh膩rata, etc.), [Indian Wisdom, by Sir M. Monier-Williams 46; Religious Thought and Life in India 53]
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Sanskrit, also spelled 啶膏啶膏啶曕啶むぎ啷� (蝉补峁僺办峁泃补尘), 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: Shankara, Acarya.
Starts with: Shamkaracaryacarita, Shamkaracaryavatarakatha, Shamkaracaryavijayadindima, Shankaracaryapada.
Full-text (+908): Shamkaracaryacarita, Padmacarana, Tripurakumara, Mohanaprakriti, Cidvilasa, Shankaracaryapada, Dvaitin, Dvaitadhvanta, Dhyayati, Ukchvayana, Nirakartavya, Darshayitavya, Pratyabhijnapana, Prativaditavya, Pratyupasthana, Paramatakalanala, Girijakumara, Durvivecana, Nirakaraniya, Pramadapatha.
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Bhakti-rasayana by Madhusudana Sarasvati (by Lance Edward Nelson)
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Studies in Indian Literary History (by P. K. Gode)
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