Adhobhuvana, Adhōbhuvana: 10 definitions
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Adhobhuvana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Marathi-English dictionary
adhōbhuvana (अधोभुवन).—n S adhōlōka m S The infernal regions.
adhōbhuvana (अधोभुवन).—n lōka m Hell. The infernal regions.
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
Adhobhuvana (अधोभुवन).—n.
(-naṃ) The regions below the earth. E. adhas beneath, and bhuvana a world; the earth below.
Adhobhuvana (अधोभुवन):—[=adho-bhuvana] [from adhas] n. the lower world.
Adhobhuvana (अधोभुवन):—[tatpurusha compound] n.
(-nam) The world below, the regions below the earth. E. adhas and bhuvana.
Adhobhuvana (अधोभुवन):—[adho+bhuvana] (naṃ) 1. n. The infernal regions below the earth.
Adhobhuvana (अधोभुवन):—(adhas + bhuvana) n. Unterwelt, Pātāla, der Aufenthaltsort der Schlangen, [Amarakoṣa 1, 2, 1, 1.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1363.]
Adhobhuvana (अधोभुवन):—n. Unterwelt.
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.
Pali-English dictionary
adhobhuvana (အဓောဘုဝန) [(na) (န)]—
[adho+bhuvana. adharaṃ bhuvanaṃ adhobhuvanaṃ. ,ṭī.649]
[အဓော+ဘုဝန။ အဓရံ ဘုဝနံ အဓောဘုဝနံ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၄၉]
[Pali to Burmese]
adhobhuvana—
(Burmese text): နဂါးပြည်။
(Auto-Translation): Dragon Country.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
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