Brihaddevata, Bṛhaddevatā, Brihat-devata: 7 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Bṛhaddevatā can be transliterated into English as Brhaddevata or Brihaddevata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Vedic Hinduism (also orthodox Brahmanism)
Bṛhaddevatā (बृहद्देवता) is a metrical Sanskrit work, traditionally ascribed to Śaunaka. It is an enlarged catalogue of the Rigvedic deities worshipped in the individual sūktas (hymns) of the Ṛgveda. It also contains the myths and legends related to the composition of these sūktas. The Bṛhaddevatā consists eight adhyāyas (chapters), mostly written in Anuṣṭubh meter, though a number of verses are in Triṣṭubh meter also. Each adhyāya comprises about 30 vargas, each consisting of five verses. The text begins with a long introduction embracing the complete first adhyāyas, and twenty-five vargas of the second. The main body of the text beginning from the twenty-sixth varga of the second adhyāya, for the most part, is concerned with stating the deities, in their successive order, for the hymns and stanzas of the Ṛgveda. It also comprises nearly forty legends, described to explain the circumstances under which the hymns they are concerned with were composed. These legends cover almost a quarter of the whole text. A number of these legends are historically connected to the Mahābhārata
Vedic Hinduism refers to traditional Brahmanism adhering to the vast literature known as Shruti, including the four Vedas, the Brahmanas (interpretation and commentaries) and Upanishads (philosophical discourses) as well as a variety of appendices known as Sutras.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Bṛhaddevatā (बृहद्देवता).—Name of a large work enumerating Vedic Deities.
Bṛhaddevatā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bṛhat and devatā (देवता).
Bṛhaddevatā (बृहद्देवता).—[feminine] T. of a work.
1) Bṛhaddevatā (बृहद्देवता) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Ṛv. attributed to Śaunaka. W. p. 10. Oxf. 401^b. Haug. 21.
2) Bṛhaddevatā (बृहद्देवता):—Cu. add. 1048.
3) Bṛhaddevatā (बृहद्देवता):—attributed to Śaunaka. As p. 119.
Bṛhaddevatā (बृहद्देवता):—[=bṛhad-devatā] [from bṛhad > bṛṃh] f. Name of a large [work] (enumerating and explaining the deities to which each hymn of the [Ṛg-veda] is addressed).
Bṛhaddevatā (बृहद्देवता):—[(bṛhant + de)] f. Name eines dem Śaunaka zugeschriebenen Buches, [Geschichte des Weda 49. 59.] [KUHN] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 101. fgg.] — Vgl. bārhaddaivata .
Bṛhaddevatā (बृहद्देवता):—f. Titel eines Werkes.
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 (+0): Brihad, Brihat, Devata.
Full-text (+17): Barhaddaivata, Chandogika, Devikrida, Shaunaka, Draughana, Yaupa, Romakayana, Gadhisunu, Vasativara, Niruktavat, Naipatika, Suryakshaya, Gathija, Sthanavibhaga, Bijamatra, Yaska, Bhaguri, Atmastava, Kraushtuki, Arshanukramani.
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