Bahushrutya, Bāhuśrutya: 6 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Bāhuśrutya can be transliterated into English as Bahusrutya or Bahushrutya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bāhuśrutya (बाहुश्रुत्य).—Erudition, great learning; बाहुश्रुत्यं तपस्त्यागः श्रद्धा यज्ञक्रिया क्षमा (bāhuśrutyaṃ tapastyāgaḥ śraddhā yajñakriyā kṣamā) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.167.5.

Derivable forms: bāhuśrutyam (बाहुश्रुत्यम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Bahuśrutya (बहुश्रुत्य).—(nt.; = bāhu°, q.v.; = Pali bāhusacca, also bahu°, which [Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary] would em. to bāhu°): great (excessive) learning, disparagingly: Mahāvastu i.96.10 °tyam, all mss., Senart em. bāhu°; in same line bāhu°, most mss., but one good one bahu°.

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Bāhuśrutya (बाहुश्रुत्य).—(nt.; also bahu°, q.v.; = Pali bāhusacca; once in Sanskrit, Mbh 12.6214, in complimentary sense), great (excessive) learning, disparagingly, as something which does not lead to the true goal: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 218.10; Daśabhūmikasūtra 79.21 (cited s.v. udgrahaṇa); Samādhirājasūtra p.30 line 24, cited Śikṣāsamuccaya 189.6.

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

Bāhuśrutya (बाहुश्रुत्य).—[neuter] much learning, scholarship.

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

Bāhuśrutya (बाहुश्रुत्य):—[=bāhu-śrutya] [from bāhu] n. great learning, erudition, [Mahābhārata]

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Bahushrutya in German

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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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