Anupurvakesha, Anupūrvakeśa, Anupurva-kesha: 2 definitions
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Anupurvakesha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. 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.
The Sanskrit term Anupūrvakeśa can be transliterated into English as Anupurvakesa or Anupurvakesha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnupūrvakeśa (अनुपूर्वकेश):—[=anu-pūrva-keśa] [from anu-pūrva] mfn. having regular hair, regularly shaped limbs, regular teeth, a regularly shaped navel, regular lines in the hands (all these are epithets given to Buddha, some of them also to Mahāvīra), [Buddhist literature] and, [Jaina literature]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAnupūrvakeśa (अनुपूर्वकेश):—[bahuvrihi compound] m.
(-śaḥ) Whose hairs are grown in per-fect order; one of the eighty secondary signs or anuvyañjana q. v. which indicate the ‘great man’, accord. to the Buddhists. E. anupūrva and keśa.
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: Kesa, Anupurva.
Full-text: Anupurvadamshtra, Anupurvanguli.
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