The Sanskrit term Śikhābandha can be transliterated into English as Sikhabandha or Shikhabandha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Śikhābandha (शिखाबन्ध) refers to the “sealing of the crest” (as part of an offering ritual), according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [as the Bhagavān teaches the offering of the root spell], “[...] Then the spell-master should bathe well and put on clean clothes. Water sipping, the sealing of the crest (śikhābandha), the sealing of the boundary, the sealing of the maṇḍala, the putting on of clothes, self-protection and bathing should be performed. [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Śikhābandha (शिखाबन्ध).—a tuft of hair.

Derivable forms: śikhābandhaḥ (शिखाबन्धः).

Śikhābandha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śikhā and bandha (बन्ध).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Śikhābandha (शिखाबन्ध).—m., (1) (= Pali sikhā°, Dīghanikāya (Pali) i.7.21), a particular manner of doing up the hair (top-knot; in Pali, according to Dīghanikāya (Pali) commentary i.89.3 ff., with ornamentation): °dhaṃ kṛtvā (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 38.19; (2) a particular technique of wielding [Page528-a+ 71] (the bow), presumably involving the top of the head; mentioned with muṣṭi-b° and pada-(pāda-)b° as an art to be mastered by a prince: Mahāvyutpatti 4979; Lalitavistara 156.12; Divyāvadāna 442.7; Tibetan on Mahāvyutpatti and Lalitavistara thor tshugs (var. on Mahāvyutpatti tsugs), which seems to fit meaning 1 above, meaning apparently simply doing up the hair in a spiral (so [Tibetan-English Dictionary]) on top of the head. This cannot be the meaning in these [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] passages, which certainly refer to a manner of wielding the bow; see s.v. muṣṭi-b°.

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

Śikhābandha (शिखाबन्ध):—[=śikhā-bandha] [from śikhā] m. a tuft of hair, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Shikhabandha 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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Partial matches: Shikha, Bandha.

Starts with: Shikhabandhana.

Full-text: Mushtibandha, Mushtisambandha.

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