Mahinatha, Mahi-natha, Mahīnātha: 5 definitions
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Mahīnātha (महीनाथ).—m.,
Derivable forms: mahīnāthaḥ (महीनाथः).
Mahīnātha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mahī and nātha (नाथ). See also (synonyms): mahīpa, mahīpati, mahīpāla, mahīpurandara, mahībhuj.
Mahīnātha (महीनाथ).—[masculine] earth-lord, king.
Mahīnātha (महीनाथ) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Mantrasiddhāntaśikhā [tantric]
Mahīnātha (महीनाथ):—[=mahī-nātha] [from mahī > mah] m. ‘earth-lord’, -prec, [Pañcatantra]
Mahīnātha (महीनाथ):—[(ma + nātha)] m. Gebieter der Erde, Fürst, König [Spr. 168.]
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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Full-text: Lankagiri, Mantrasiddhantashikha, Mahibhuj, Mahipati, Mahipurandara, Mahipala, Mahipa, Mahina.
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Page 141 < [Volume 17 (1914)]
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 73 < [Bengali-Hindi-English, Volume 2]
Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala (study) (by Shri N. M. Kansara)
6.2. Alankaras (17): Paryayokta (circumlocution) < [Chapter 15 - The Tilakamanjari as a Prose Poetic work]
Kailash: Journal of Himalayan Studies
Part 9 - Jayasthiti Malla and His Successors < [Ancient and Medieval Nepal (Part 2)]