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Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wikibooks (hi): Sanskrit Technical Terms

Lambajyā (लम्बज्या).—The R sine of the colatitude. Note: Lambajyā 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

lambajyā (लंबज्या).—f S The cosine of the latitude of a place.

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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

Lambajyā (लम्बज्या).—the sine of the co-latitude; स्वाबाधाभुजकृत्योरन्तरमूलं प्रजायते लम्बः । लम्बगुणं भूम्यर्धं स्पष्टं त्रिभुजं फलं भवति (svābādhābhujakṛtyorantaramūlaṃ prajāyate lambaḥ | lambaguṇaṃ bhūmyardhaṃ spaṣṭaṃ tribhujaṃ phalaṃ bhavati) Līlā.

Lambajyā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms lamba and jyā (ज्या). See also (synonyms): lambaguṇa, lambarekhā.

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

Lambajyā (लम्बज्या).—f.

(-jyā) Sine or cosine of the latitude. E. lamba, and jyā sine.

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

Lambajyā (लम्बज्या):—[=lamba-jyā] [from lamba > lamb] f. (in [astronomy]) the sine of the co-latitude, [Sūryasiddhānta]

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

Lambajyā (लम्बज्या):—[lamba-jyā] (jyā) 1. f. Sine or cosine.

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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: Jya, Lamba.

Starts with: Lambajyaka.

Full-text: Lambarekha, Lambaguna, Lamba.

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