The Sanskrit term Janāśana can be transliterated into English as Janasana or Janashana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

An Ajivaka. He it was who predicted the glory of Asoka by explaining the prenatal desires of his mother. The queen promised him great honour if his predictions should prove true. Later, when Asoka became king and heard the story, he sent a golden palanquin to fetch Janasana to the palace. On the way, Janasana visited the Vattaniya hermitage where lived Assagutta, and having heard the latter talk of ayatana, his earlier kamma asserted itself and he became a monk, attaining arahantship.

In the time of Kassapa Buddha he was a python who died while listening to some monks reciting a chapter on the ayatanas. MT.190ff.

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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).

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Janāśana (जनाशन).—a. wolf.

Derivable forms: janāśanaḥ (जनाशनः).

Janāśana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms jana and aśana (अशन).

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

Janāśana (जनाशन).—m.

(-naḥ) A wolf. E. jana, and aśana food. janān aśnāti aśa bhojane lyu .

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

Janāśana (जनाशन):—[from jana > jan] m. ‘man-eater’, a wolf, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Janāśana (जनाशन):—[janā+śana] (naḥ) 1. m. A wolf.

[Sanskrit to German]

Janasana 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Asana, Jana.

Ends with: Ajanashana.

Full-text: Jarasana, Canacanam, Vattaniya, Ashoka.

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