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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Gāṅgāyani (गाङ्गायनि).—[gaṅgāyā apatyaṃ phiñ] Name of Bhīsma or Kārtikeya.

Derivable forms: gāṅgāyaniḥ (गाङ्गायनिः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Gāṅgāyani (गाङ्गायनि).—f.

(-niḥ) 1. A name of Bhishma. 2. A name of Kartikeya, E. gaṅgā the personified river, (as the wife of Santanu, in the first instance, and mother of the hero; and in the second, as the receiver of Kartikeya, the son of Siva, from Agni, the god of fire.) and phiñ patronymic aff.

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

1) Gāṅgāyani (गाङ्गायनि):—[from gāṅga] m. ([gana] tikādi) [metronymic] [from] gaṅgā, [Pravara texts ii, 4, 1; iv, 8]

2) [v.s. ...] Bhīṣma (son of Śāntanu’s first wife Gaṅgā), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] Skanda (generated from Śiva’s vivifying principle first cast into Agni and afterwards received by Gaṅgā), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) [v.s. ...] for gyāy, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Gāṅgāyani (गाङ्गायनि):—(niḥ) 2. f. Bhīshma.

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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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Full-text: Gandinisuta, Gangeya, Ganga.

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