Kalasarpa, Kala-sarpa, Kāḷasarpa, Kālasarpa: 10 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Kāḷasarpa can be transliterated into English as Kalasarpa or Kaliasarpa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Marathi-English dictionary
kāḷasarpa (काळसर्प).—m The all-devouring serpent Time.) A name for Yama, Death or Time personified.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Kālasarpa (कालसर्प).—the black and most poisonous variety of the snake; Gītagovinda 1.12.
Derivable forms: kālasarpaḥ (कालसर्पः).
Kālasarpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kāla and sarpa (सर्प).
Kālasarpa (कालसर्प).—m.
(-rpaḥ) The black and most deadly variety of the cobra, (Coluber naga) E. kāla black, and sarpa a serpent.
Kālasarpa (कालसर्प).—and
Kālasarpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kāla and sarpa (सर्प).
Kālasarpa (कालसर्प).—[masculine] coluber naga.
Kālasarpa (कालसर्प):—[=kāla-sarpa] [from kāla] m. the black and most venomous variety of the Cobra, Coluber Nāga, [Gīta-govinda x, 12; Vetāla-pañcaviṃśatikā]
Kālasarpa (कालसर्प):—[kāla-sarpa] (rpaḥ) 1. m. A black and poisonous snake (Coluber naga).
Kālasarpa (कालसर्प):—(1. kāla + sarpa) m. die überaus giftige schwarze Cobra (Coluber Naga) [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 2, 3.] [Gītagovinda 10, 12.] [Vetālapañcaviṃśati 16, 11.]
Kālasarpa (कालसर्प):—m. Coluber Naga.
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
Kālasarpa (ಕಾಲಸರ್ಪ):—
1) [noun] the black and most poisonous variety of the cobra.
2) [noun] (astrol.) a particular occasion in which other seven planets are clustered between Rāhu and Kētu.
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Kāḷasarpa (ಕಾಳಸರ್ಪ):—
1) [noun] the black and most poisonous variety of the cobra.
2) [noun] (astrol.) a particular occasion in which other seven planets are clustered between Rāhu and Kētu.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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