Harisakha, Hari-sakha: 3 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Harisakha (हरिसख).—a Gandharva; सपदि हरिसखैर्वधूनिदेशाद्ध्वनितमनो- रमवल्लकीमृद्गैः (sapadi harisakhairvadhūnideśāddhvanitamano- ramavallakīmṛdgaiḥ) Kirātārjunīya 1.18.

Derivable forms: harisakhaḥ (हरिसखः).

Harisakha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms hari and sakha (सख).

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

Harisakha (हरिसख).—m.

(-khaḥ) A Gandharva.

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

Harisakha (हरिसख):—[=hari-sakha] [from hari] m. ‘friend of Indra’, a Gandharva, [Kirātārjunīya]

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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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