Gaganapushpa, Gaganapuṣpa, Gagana-pushpa, Gagaṇapuṣpa: 8 definitions
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Gaganapushpa means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. 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.
The Sanskrit terms Gaganapuṣpa and Gagaṇapuṣpa can be transliterated into English as Gaganapuspa or Gaganapushpa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarygaganapuṣpa (गगनपुष्प).—n (S) gaganakusuma n (S) A flower in the sky. Terms used to express an impossibility or a non-entity. See khapuṣpa.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishgaganapuṣpa (गगनपुष्प).—n An impossibility.
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
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryGaganapuṣpa (गगनपुष्प) or Gagaṇapuṣpa (गगणपुष्प).—'sky-flower'; i. e. any unreal thing, an impossibility; see खपुष्प (khapuṣpa).
Derivable forms: gaganapuṣpam (गगनपुष्पम्), gagaṇapuṣpam (गगणपुष्पम्).
Gaganapuṣpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms gagana and puṣpa (पुष्प). See also (synonyms): gaganakusuma.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryGagaṇapuṣpa (गगणपुष्प).—m.
(-ṣpaḥ) A flower in the sky. i. e. an impossibility. E. gagaṇa, and puṣpa a flower; alse gagaṇakusuma, &c.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryGaganapuṣpa (गगनपुष्प):—[=gagana-puṣpa] [from gagana] n. = -kusuma, [Horace H. Wilson] (cf. kha-p.)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryGagaṇapuṣpa (गगणपुष्प):—[gagaṇa-puṣpa] (ṣpaḥ) 1. m. A flower growing in the sky; an impossibility.
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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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Partial matches: Pushpa, Gagana.
Full-text: Gaganakusuma, Gaganaravinda, Khapushpa.
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