Jagadantaka, Jagat-antaka: 4 definitions

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

Jagadantaka (जगदन्तक).—m. the destroyer of the world, [Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, (ed. Burnouf.)] 4. 5, 6.

Jagadantaka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms jagat and antaka (अन्तक).

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

Jagadantaka (जगदन्तक):—[=jagad-antaka] [from jagad > jaga] m. ‘world-destroyer’, death, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa iv, 5, 6] (kāntaka mfn. destroying death).

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Jagadantaka 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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