Antepura: 4 definitions
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Antepura means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali. 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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Pali-English dictionary
antepura : (nt.) 1. inner town; 2. a harem.
antepura (အန္တေပုရ) [(na) (န)]—
[ante+pura. aluttasa. ante abbhantare puraṃ gehaṃ antepuraṃ. purassa anteti vā antepuraṃ. ]]antopura]]ntipi pāṭho. ,ṭī.215. (apura-saṃ). sakkatabuddhabhāsānitea antepuraç apura-hu 2- rhi.]
[အန္တေ+ပုရ။ အလုတ္တသမာသ်။ အန္တေ အဗ္ဘန္တရေ ပုရံ ဂေဟံ အန္တေပုရံ။ ပုရဿ အန္တေတိ ဝါ အန္တေပုရံ။ ＇＇အန္တောပုရ＇＇န္တိပိ ပါဌော။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၂၁၅။ (အန္တးပုရ-သံ)။ သက္ကတဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာကျမ်းတို့၌ အန္တေပုရ,အန္တးပုရ-ဟု ၂-မျိုးပင် ရှိသည်။]
[Pali to Burmese]
antepura—
(Burmese text): မင်းနန်းတော်၊ နန်းတွင်း၊ အတွင်းဆောင်။
(Auto-Translation): Your Majesty, the palace, the inner chamber.
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.
Sanskrit dictionary
Antepura (अन्तेपुर).—(nt., = Pali id., Sanskrit antaḥp°; compare prec.), inner apartments, harem: Mahāvastu ii.159.11 °pure (v.l. antaḥ- pure).
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)
Starts with: Antepuradvara, Antepuradvaragata, Antepurajana, Antepuranta, Antepurapalaka, Antepurappavesana, Antepurappavisanavatthu, Antepurasikkhapada, Antepurika.
Full-text: Rajantepura, Antepurika, Antepurapalaka, Antepuradvara, Antepurasikkhapada, Antepuranta, Antepurappavesana, Antepurappavisanavatthu, Antepurajana, Pura, Anto, Dvara.
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