Nagavahana, Nagavāhana, Naga-vahana: 4 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryNagavāhana (नगवाहन).—an epithet of Śiva.
Derivable forms: nagavāhanaḥ (नगवाहनः).
Nagavāhana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms naga and vāhana (वाहन).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryNagavāhana (नगवाहन):—[=na-ga-vāhana] [from na-ga] m. ‘m°-borne’, Name of Śiva, [Śivagītā, ascribed to the padma-purāṇa]
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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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