Pancata, Pañcatā, Pancaṭa: 8 definitions

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pañcatā (पञ्चता).—

1) Five-fold state.

2) A collection of five.

3) The five elements taken collectively.

4) the body; त्रित्वे हुत्वाथ पञ्चत्वं तच्चैकत्वेऽजुहोन्मुनिः (tritve hutvātha pañcatvaṃ taccaikatve'juhonmuniḥ) Bhāgavata 1.15.42.

5) Death, dissolution;

-pañcatāṃ, -tvam gam, -yā &c. means 'to be resolved into the five elements of which the body consists', 'to die or perish';

-pañcatāṃ, -tvaṃ nī 'to kill or destroy'; पञ्चभिर्निर्मिते देहे पञ्चत्वं च पुनर्गते । स्वां स्वां योनिमनु- प्राप्ते तत्र का परिवेदना (pañcabhirnirmite dehe pañcatvaṃ ca punargate | svāṃ svāṃ yonimanu- prāpte tatra kā parivedanā) || Ratnāvalī 3.3; शब्दादिभिः पञ्चभिरेव पञ्च पञ्चत्वमापुः स्वगुणेन बद्धाः (śabdādibhiḥ pañcabhireva pañca pañcatvamāpuḥ svaguṇena baddhāḥ) Vivekachūdāmaṇi.

See also (synonyms): pañcatva.

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

Pañcatā (पञ्चता).—f.

(-tā) 1. Death, dying, (i. e.) the separation of the five elements of whose aggregate the body consists. 2. The nature or condition of five, the aggregate of five or five times. 3. The five elements collectively, earth, air, fire, water, and Akas. E. pañca five, and tal abstract aff.

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

Pañcatā (पञ्चता).—i. e. pañcan + tā, f. 1. Quintuple amount, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 8, 151. 2. Death (properly, Solution of the body into its five elements), [Kathāsaritsāgara, (ed. Brockhaus.)] 10, 127.

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

Pañcatā (पञ्चता).—[feminine] fivefoldness, also = pañcatva.

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

1) Pañcatā (पञ्चता):—[=pañca-tā] [from pañca] f. five foldness, fivefold state or amount, [Manu-smṛti viii, 151]

2) [v.s. ...] an aggregate or a collection of 5 things ([especially]) the 5 elements, viz. earth, air, fire, water and akāśa ether, and dissolution into them id est. death (-tām with √gam, etc., to die, with upa-√nī, to kill), [Kāvya literature; Suśruta; Purāṇa]

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

Pañcatā (पञ्चता):—[(tā-tvaṃ)] 1. f. n. Death; state or condition of five; nature, or the five elements, viz. fire, air, earth, water, and æther.

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Pancata 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.

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