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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: MDPI Books: The Ocean of Heroes

Grāmastha (ग्रामस्थ) refers to a “place of residence”, according to the 10th-century Ḍākārṇava-tantra: one of the last Tibetan Tantric scriptures belonging to the Buddhist Saṃvara tradition consisting of 51 chapters.—Accordingly: “Now, [the Blessed One] has taught [holy sites] such as the pīlava and upapīlava in sequence. [...] The pīlava [sites] are recited to be the border of a village, Kuṅkara (for Koṅkana), Karmāra-pāṭaka (or a district of [many] artisans), and the village where many Yoginīs reside (grāmastha). [Every site is] powerful. (12) Likewise, in this [system], the upapīlava [sites] are an ancestor forest, a side of a house, a pond, and a lotus pool. Girls who are in these places are of [the nature of] the innate, born in their own birthplaces. [...]”.

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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 (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

grāmastha (ग्रामस्थ).—a (S) That dwells in a village, a villager. Ex. ātāñca bhōgūṃ tari hē pāhāṭa || grā0 yētāñci bharēla hāṭa ||.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

grāmastha (ग्रामस्थ).—a A villager.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Grāmastha (ग्रामस्थ).—a.

1) a villager.

2) a covillager.

Derivable forms: grāmasthaḥ (ग्रामस्थः).

Grāmastha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms grāma and stha (स्थ).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Grāmastha (ग्रामस्थ).—mfn.

(-sthaḥ-sthā-sthaṃ) Being or residing in a village, belonging to it &c. m.

(-sthaḥ) A village. E. grāma, and stha what stays. grāme tiṣṭhati sthā-ka .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Grāmastha (ग्रामस्थ):—[=grāma-stha] [from grāma] mfn. = -sad, [Horace H. Wilson]

2) [v.s. ...] belonging to a village, rustic, [Horace H. Wilson]

3) [v.s. ...] m. a village, [Horace H. Wilson]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Grāmastha (ग्रामस्थ):—[grāma-stha] (sthaḥ-sthā-sthaṃ) a. In the village. m. A villager.

[Sanskrit to German]

Gramastha in German

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Grāmastha (ಗ್ರಾಮಸ್ಥ):—[noun] = ಗ್ರಾಮವಾಸಿ [gramavasi].

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Grama, Stha.

Full-text: Divanadasta, Yoginighana.

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