Gandharvaraja, Gandharvarāja, Gandharva-raja: 6 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Gandharvarāja (गन्धर्वराज).—Chitraratha, the chief of the Gandharvas.

Derivable forms: gandharvarājaḥ (गन्धर्वराजः).

Gandharvarāja is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms gandharva and rāja (राज).

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

Gandharvarāja (गन्धर्वराज).—name of a Buddha: Gaṇḍavyūha 257.10.

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

Gandharvarāja (गन्धर्वराज).—[masculine] the king of the Gandharvas.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Gandharvarāja (गन्धर्वराज) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—[+gandharvarāja] Rāgaratnākara, music. K. 96.

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

1) Gandharvarāja (गन्धर्वराज):—[=gandharva-rāja] [from gandharva] m. a chief of the Gandharvas, [Mahābhārata]

2) [v.s. ...] Name of Citra-ratha, [Horace H. Wilson]

[Sanskrit to German]

Gandharvaraja 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.

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