Anilakumara, Anilakumāra, Anila-kumara: 4 definitions

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

Anilakumāra (अनिलकुमार):—[=anila-kumāra] [from anila] m. [plural] ‘wind-princes’, a class of deities, [Jaina literature]

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

Anilakumāra (अनिलकुमार):—[tatpurusha compound] m. pl.

(-rāḥ) (In the mythology of the Jainas.) One of the ten kinds of Bhavanapatis (q. v.) or Bhavanādhīśas (q. v.), the first of the four classes of Jaina divinities. E. anila and kumāra.

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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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