Jayashekhara, Jayaśekhara: 5 definitions

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Jayashekhara means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit term Jayaśekhara can be transliterated into English as Jayasekhara or Jayashekhara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

[«previous next»] — Jayashekhara in Chandas glossary
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Jayaśekhara (जयशेखर) is another name for Rājaśekhara: the author of the Chandaśśekhara. This is the only work of Rājaśekhara recorded so far. He is different from the famous Rājaśekhara of Yāyāvarīya family and author of Kāvyamīmāṃsā.

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Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.

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In Jainism

General definition (in Jainism)

[«previous next»] — Jayashekhara in Jainism glossary
Source: University of Cambridge: Jainism

Jayaśekhara (जयशेखर) is the teacher of Kamalacandragaṇi: the name of the copyist of the Kṣetrasamāsavṛtti (or Laghukṣetrasamāsavṛtti?): a commentary written in Sanskrit by Haribhadrasūri. [...] The copyist is Kamalacandragaṇi, pupil of Jayaśekhara, from the Kṛṣṇarṣigaccha. This Śvetāmbara monastic order, also known as Kṛṣṇagaccha or Kṛṣṇarājarṣigaccha, is a branch of the wider Tapāgaccha. Evidence from inscriptions and manuscript colophons shows that it was active, in particular in Rajasthan, during the 14th-15th centuries.

Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I

Jayaśekhara (जयशेखर) or Jayaśekharasūri is the author of the Laghukṣetrasamāsasūtra (dealing with the Cosmology of Jain Canonical literature), which is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—The last commented verse is 67. The text is the same as Ratnaśekharasūri’s Kṣetrasamāsa but does not include the last verse ascribing the work to him.

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Jayashekhara in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Jayaśekhara (जयशेखर):—[=jaya-śekhara] [from jaya] m. Name of a prince, [Siṃhāsana-dvātriṃśikā or vikramāditya-caritra, jaina recension xiv, 4/5]

2) Jayaśekharā (जयशेखरा):—[=jaya-śekharā] [from jaya-śekhara > jaya] f. Name of a Mūrchanā, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]

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Jayashekhara 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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