Ekottara, Eka-uttara: 8 definitions

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Ekottara means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Ekottara (एकोत्तर).—a. greater or increasing by one.

Ekottara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms eka and uttara (उत्तर).

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Ekottara (एकोत्तर).—name of a Bodhisattva: Gaṇḍavyūha 442.18.

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

Ekottara (एकोत्तर).—[adjective] greater or more by one.

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

Ekottara (एकोत्तर):—[from eka] mfn. greater or more by one, increasing by one, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Suśruta; Ṛgveda-prātiśākhya etc.]

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

Ekottara (एकोत्तर):—(eka + uttara) adj. um Eines grösser, mehr, je um Eines zunehmend [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 10, 2, 3, 17. 13, 2, 1, 5.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 3, 70. 179.] [Suśruta 1, 153, 13.] [?adv. 122, 10. Śāṅkhāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 4, 10, 2.]

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Ekottara (एकोत्तर):—[Prātiśākhya zum Ṛgveda 16, 3.] kramaśas [Weber’s Indische Studien 8, 429.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Ekottara (एकोत्तर):—Adj. um Eins grösser , — mehr , — zunehmend. kramaśas Adv. der Reihe nach stets um Eins mehr.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

Ekottara (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:

1) 增一 [zēng yī]: “incremental”.

Source: DILA Glossaries: Sanskrit-Chinese-English (dictionary of Buddhism)
context information

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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Kannada-English dictionary

Ēkōttara (ಏಕೋತ್ತರ):—[noun] that which is more by one number.

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus
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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.

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