Bhattacarya, Bhaṭṭācārya, Bhatta-acarya: 7 definitions
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Marathi-English dictionary
bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य).—m (S The chief or head of the bhaṭṭa or learned men.) A title or appellation of honor for a learned Brahman.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य).—
1) a title given to a learned man or any celebrated teacher (esp. kumārilabhaṭṭa).
2) a great doctor.
Derivable forms: bhaṭṭācāryaḥ (भट्टाचार्यः).
Bhaṭṭācārya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bhaṭṭa and ācārya (आचार्य).
Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य).—[masculine] illustrious teacher ([Epithet] of Kumārilabhaṭṭa).
1) Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—a title of Kumārila by which he is often quoted. Oxf. 247^a. 265^a.
Bhaṭṭācārya has the following synonyms: Bhaṭṭa.
2) Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य):—of Golagrāma, father of Divākara, grandfather of Kṛṣṇa, Viṣṇu, Mallāri, Keśava, Viśvanātha, great grandfather of Nṛsiṃha (Sūryasiddhāntavāsanābhāṣya). Cambr. p. 42.
3) Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य):—Āśaucatriṃśacchlokīṭīkā. Āśauśasaṃgraha and vivṛti. Triṃśacchlokī (?). Oudh. Iii, 16. Śaucasaṃgrahavivṛti. B. 3, 130. No doubt, identical with the Āśaucasaṃgrahavivṛti.
4) Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य):—Kāvyaprakāśa (?). B. 3, 46.
5) Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य):—Padamañjarī [nyāya] Śāṇḍilyasūtradīpikā. Siddhāntapañcānana (?) [nyāya] B. 4, 34.
6) Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य):—Muktāvalī and—[commentary] jy.
Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य):—[from bhaṭṭa] m. a title given to a learned Brāhman or any great teacher or doctor ([especially] to Kumārila-bhaṭṭa, but also to various other scholars and authors)
Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य):—[(bhaṭṭa + ā)] m. ein grosser, berühmter Lehrer; nach [Śabdakalpadruma] der die Lehre des Tutāta und Udayanākārya kennt. [KUSUM. 65, 15.] [Bhāṣāpariccheda] am Ende in der Unterschr. [Vopadeva’s Grammatik] desgl. v. l. [Oxforder Handschriften 108,b, Nalopākhyāna 2. No. 526.] Häufig wird Kumārilabhaṭṭa schlechtweg so bezeichnet, z. B. ebend. [?247,a,27. 251,b,9. 265,a,6 (pl.). 270,b,20. HALL 164.] ein Schüler (nicht Sohn, wie die deutsche Uebersetzung hat) Śaṃkarācārya’s [WASSILJEW 53. fg.] — [KṢITĪŚ. 32, 20.]
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Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य):—= Kumārila [SARVADARŚANAS. 121, 3. 134, 22. 141, 20. 167, 7.]
Bhaṭṭācārya (भट्टाचार्य):—m. ein grosser , berühmter Lehrer , gewöhnlich Bez. Kumārilabhaṭṭa's.
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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