The Sanskrit term Buddhiśakti can be transliterated into English as Buddhisakti or Buddhishakti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Yoga (school of philosophy)

Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birch

Buddhiśakti (बुद्धिशक्ति) refers to “powers in the form of one’s higher faculty of discernment”, according to the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with meditation, absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Vāmadeva: “[...] [The Yogin], whose foot-soldiers are his quietened senses and who is endowed with [a successful king’s] powers [in the form of] his higher faculty of discernment (buddhiśakti-samanvita), becomes joyful when he has conquered the hostile mind-king who is accompanied by his [royal] vehicle, the breath. [...]”.

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Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Buddhiśakti (बुद्धिशक्ति).—intellectual faculty.

Derivable forms: buddhiśaktiḥ (बुद्धिशक्तिः).

Buddhiśakti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms buddhi and śakti (शक्ति).

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

Buddhiśakti (बुद्धिशक्ति):—[=buddhi-śakti] [from buddhi > budh] f. an intellectual faculty, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Buddhishakti 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Buddhiśakti (ಬುದ್ಧಿಶಕ್ತಿ):—[noun] powers of thinking and reasoning; intellectual and perceptive powers; wit.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Shakti, Buddhi.

Full-text: Aparampara.

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