Alternative spellings of this word include Panchasutra.

In Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (tantric Buddhism)

Pañcasūtra (पञ्चसूत्र) refers to the “five cords” [i.e., ‘the cords of Brahman, the root cords, the direction cords, and the side cords’], according to Kuladatta’s Kriyāsaṃgrahapañjikā, a text within Tantric Buddhism representing a construction manual for monasteries.—Accordingly, [in the nimittokti section in chapter 3], the Ācārya should divide the site into thirty-six compartments. He should drive ritual spikes (kīla) symbolising the thirty-two wrathful deities into the compartments, excluding the four central ones, and worship the spikes. Then he should visualise himself as Vajrahūṃkāra in order to remove obstacles from the site. Then the Ācārya should re-arrange the placement of the spikes in a proper way. After that, the Ācārya should connect the pañcasūtras—the cords of Brahman, the root cords, the direction cords, and the side cords—to the spikes driven to the ground (sūtra-pātana).

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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

pañcasūtra (पंचसूत्र).—a (S) pop. and poetically pañcasūtrī a Of five threads, strings, lines. 2 In special use. Constructed or fixed in five lines of equal length;--used of a phallus or lingam of Shiva as set with its drain &c. () Ex. paṃ0 divyaliṅga karī || maṇimaya śiva saha gaurī ||.

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

Pañcasūtra (पञ्चसूत्र):—[=pañca-sūtra] [from pañca] n. (and f(ī). ) ‘5 Sūtras’, Name of [work]

[Sanskrit to German]

Pancasutra 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: Sutra, Panca.

Ends with: Shaunakapancasutra.

Full-text: Shaunakapancasutra, Sutrapatana, Patana, Kila.

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Yogadrstisamuccaya of Haribhadra Suri (Study) (by Riddhi J. Shah)

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