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Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wikibooks (hi): Sanskrit Technical Terms

Krāntijyā (क्रान्तिज्या).—R sine of the declination of a celestial body. Note: Krāntijyā is a Sanskrit technical term used in ancient Indian sciences such as Astronomy, Mathematics and Geometry.

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

krāntijyā (क्रांतिज्या).—f S The sine of a planet's declination.

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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

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Krāntijyā (क्रान्तिज्या).—the sine of the declination or of the ecliptic.

Krāntijyā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms krānti and jyā (ज्या). See also (synonyms): krāntijīvā, krāntijyakā.

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

Krāntijyā (क्रान्तिज्या).—f.

(-jyā) Sine of the declination E. krānti, and jyā sine.

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

Krāntijyā (क्रान्तिज्या):—[=krānti-jyā] [from krānti > kram] f. idem, [Sūryasiddhānta ii, iii, xi.]

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

Krāntijyā (क्रान्तिज्या):—[krānti-jyā] (jyāḥ) 1. f. Sine of the declination of a planet.

[Sanskrit to German]

Krantijya 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Jya, Kranti.

Starts with: Krantijyaka.

Ends with: Paramakrantijya.

Full-text: Krantijiva, Apamajya, Paramakrantijya, Krantijyaka, Kramajya, Aharvyasa.

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