The Sanskrit term Grāmyapaśu can be transliterated into English as Gramyapasu or Gramyapashu, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Google Books: Cultural History from the Vāyu Purāna

Grāmya-paśu (ग्राम्य-पशु). The grāmya (i.e. the domesticated) animals are: go, aja, puruṣa (man), meṣa, aśva, aśvatara and gardabha; according to the Vāyu Purāṇa. The list of grāmya animals given suggests that they were the domesticated animals. It should be noted that the elephant is included in the list of wild beasts and the list of domesticated animals does not mention the dog. We have, however, other references in the Purāṇas to suggest that the elephant was already domesticated. The horse and the cow are the most important of the domesticated animals. The buffalo is not to be found in the list of grāmya animals and we elsewhere find king Satyavrata hunting the Mahiṣas as if they were wild beasts but in the śrāddha chapters we find the milk of a she-buffalo as a taboo in śrāddha which suggests that the animal was domesticated.

Also see: Āraṇya-paśu (wild beasts).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Grāmyapaśu (ग्राम्यपशु).—Cows, goats, men, sheep, horses, mules and horses at the commencement of Tretā yuga; Āraṇyas, dogs, two-hoofed elephants, monkeys, birds, undakas and snakes; sapta grāmya paśava, saptā araṇyakas (Tait. Samh.).^*

• * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa II. 8. 47-49; Vāyu-purāṇa 9. 46-8.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Grāmyapaśu (ग्राम्यपशु).—a domestic animal; Bhāg. 6.15.16.

Derivable forms: grāmyapaśuḥ (ग्राम्यपशुः).

Grāmyapaśu is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms grāmya and paśu (पशु).

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

1) Grāmyapaśu (ग्राम्यपशु):—[=grāmya-paśu] [from grāmya > grāma] m. a domestic animal, [Pāṇini 1-2, 73]

2) [v.s. ...] (applied contemptuously to a man), [Bhāgavata-purāṇa vi, 15, 16.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Gramyapashu 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Grāmyapaśu (ಗ್ರಾಮ್ಯಪಶು):—[noun] any of the domesticated animals.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Pashu, Gramya, Pacu.

Full-text: Ashvatara, Gardabha, Mesha, Purusha, Aja, Aranya-pashu, Ashva, Go, Samgha.

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