Ghanteshvara, Ghaṇṭeśvara: 7 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Ghaṇṭeśvara can be transliterated into English as Ghantesvara or Ghanteshvara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexGhaṇṭeśvara (घण्टेश्वर).—A tīrtham sacred to Pitṛs.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 22. 70.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
India history and geography
Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the ŚilāhārasGhaṇṭeśvara (घण्टेश्वर) is the name of a field mentioned in the “Ṭhāṇā plates of Mummuṇirāja”. Accordingly, “out of the produce in food-grains from the field of Ghaṇṭeśvara in the village... situated in this Vareṭikā-viṣaya, the boundaries of which are as follows:‒on the east, a cow-path in the village Ekasāla; on the south, the river Pavahā; on the west, the field of Pimparikā belonging to the god, the holy Nāgeśvara, and also a royal road; on the north, a cow-path; and also the house-cess in drammas of this field and a kumāragadyāṇaka”.
The copper-plate grant mentions a village (whose name is effaced in the original) as having a temple of Ghaṇṭeśvara. In view of the identification of Ekasāla as above proposed, it seems certain that it is the modern village Āmbivalī which lies about a mile to the west of Ekasāla.
These copper plates (mentioning Ghaṇṭeśvara) were discovered in 1956 while digging the ground between the Church and the District Office at Ṭhāṇā, the chief town of the Ṭhāṇā District in Mahārāṣṭra. Its object is to record the grant, by the Śilāhāra Mummuṇirāja, of some villages and lands to learned Brāhmaṇas on the occasion of the lunar eclipse on the fifteenth tithi of the bright fortnight of Phālguna in the Śaka year 970, the cyclic year being Sarvadhārin.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryGhaṇṭeśvara (घण्टेश्वर).—m.
(-raḥ) A minor deity, the son of Mars. E. ghaṇṭā, and īśvara lord.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryGhaṇṭeśvara (घण्टेश्वर):—[from ghaṇṭā > ghaṇṭa] m. Name of a son of Maṅgala or Mars by Medhā, [Brahma-purāṇa]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryGhaṇṭeśvara (घण्टेश्वर):—[ghaṇṭe-śvara] (raḥ) 1. m. Son of Mars.
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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: Svara, Ghamte.
Full-text: Ambivali.
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The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 57 - Ghaṇṭeśvara (ghaṇṭa-īśvara-liṅga) < [Section 2 - Caturaśīti-liṅga-māhātmya]
Chapter 254 - Greatness of Ghaṇṭeśvara < [Section 1 - Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya]
Chapter 70 - Index of All Tīrthas (in this Text) < [Section 1 - Avantīkṣetra-māhātmya]