Jnanadipa, Jñānadīpa: 4 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryJñānadīpa (ज्ञानदीप).—m.
(-paḥ) Knowledge, the lamp of knowledge. E. jñāna, and dīpa a lamp.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumJñānadīpa (ज्ञानदीप) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—vedānta. Bp. 271.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryJñānadīpa (ज्ञानदीप):—[=jñāna-dīpa] [from jñāna > jñā] m. the lamp of knowledge, [Horace H. Wilson]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryJñānadīpa (ज्ञानदीप):—[jñāna-dīpa] (paḥ) 1. m. Lamp of knowledge, knowledge.
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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