Kurmaraja, Kūrmarāja, Kurma-raja: 3 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryKūrmarāja (कूर्मराज).—Viṣṇu in the shape of tortoise in his second incarnation; पृथ्वि स्थिरा भव भुजङ्गम धारयैनाम् । त्वं कूर्मराज तदिदं द्वितयं दधीथाः (pṛthvi sthirā bhava bhujaṅgama dhārayainām | tvaṃ kūrmarāja tadidaṃ dvitayaṃ dadhīthāḥ) || Mahān.
Derivable forms: kūrmarājaḥ (कूर्मराजः).
Kūrmarāja is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kūrma and rāja (राज).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryKūrmarāja (कूर्मराज):—[=kūrma-rāja] [from kūrma] m. the king of turtles (who upholds the world), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryKūrmarāja (कूर्मराज):—[kūrma-rāja] (jaḥ) 1. m. King of turtles.
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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