The Sanskrit term Aṣṭādaśaśilpaśāstropadeśakā can be transliterated into English as Astadasasilpasastropadesaka or Ashtadashashilpashastropadeshaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Aṣṭādaśaśilpaśāstropadeśakā (अष्टादशशिल्पशास्त्रोपदेशका).—Eighteen ancient writers on the scienee of Architecture; भृगुरत्रिर्वसिष्ठश्च विश्वकर्मा मयस्तथा । नारदो नग्नजिच्चैव विशालाक्षः पुरन्दरः (bhṛguratrirvasiṣṭhaśca viśvakarmā mayastathā | nārado nagnajiccaiva viśālākṣaḥ purandaraḥ) || 1 ॥ ब्रह्मा कुमारो नन्दीशः शौनको गर्ग एव च । वासुदेवोऽनिरुद्धश्च तथा शुक्रबृहस्पती (|| brahmā kumāro nandīśaḥ śaunako garga eva ca | vāsudevo'niruddhaśca tathā śukrabṛhaspatī) || 2 ॥ अष्टादशैते विख्याताः शिल्पशास्त्रोपदेशकाः (|| aṣṭādaśaite vikhyātāḥ śilpaśāstropadeśakāḥ) || Matsya P.

Derivable forms: aṣṭādaśaśilpaśāstropadeśakāḥ (अष्टादशशिल्पशास्त्रोपदेशकाः).

Aṣṭādaśaśilpaśāstropadeśakā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms aṣṭādaśan and śilpaśāstropadeśakā (शिल्पशास्त्रोपदेशका).

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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: Ashtadasha.

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