Kshityaditi, Kṣityaditi, Kshiti-aditi: 6 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Kṣityaditi can be transliterated into English as Ksityaditi or Kshityaditi, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kṣityaditi (क्षित्यदिति).—an epithet of Devakī, mother of Kṛṣṇa.

Derivable forms: kṣityaditiḥ (क्षित्यदितिः).

Kṣityaditi is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kṣiti and aditi (अदिति).

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

Kṣityaditi (क्षित्यदिति).—f.

(-tiḥ) The mother of Krishna. E. kṣiti the earth, and aditi the mother of the gods; the terrestrial parent of divinity.

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

Kṣityaditi (क्षित्यदिति):—[=kṣity-aditi] [from kṣity > kṣi] f. ‘the Aditi of the earth’, Name of Devakī (mother of Kṛṣṇa), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Kṣityaditi (क्षित्यदिति):—[kṣitya-diti] (taḥ) 2. f. Krishna's mother.

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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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