The Sanskrit term Kṣayavāyu can be transliterated into English as Ksayavayu or Kshayavayu, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kṣayavāyu (क्षयवायु).—the wind that is to blow at the destruction of the world.

Derivable forms: kṣayavāyuḥ (क्षयवायुः).

Kṣayavāyu is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kṣaya and vāyu (वायु).

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

Kṣayavāyu (क्षयवायु).—m. (yuḥ) The wind that is to blow at the end of the world. E. kṣaya, and vāyu wind.

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

Kṣayavāyu (क्षयवायु):—[=kṣaya-vāyu] [from kṣaya > kṣi] m. the wind that is to blow at the end of the world, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Kṣayavāyu (क्षयवायु):—[kṣaya-vāyu] (yuḥ) 1. m. The last storm.

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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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Partial matches: Kshaya, Vayu.

Full-text: Vatsavyuha.

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