Nakshatranatha, Nakṣatranātha, Nakshatra-natha: 8 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Nakṣatranātha can be transliterated into English as Naksatranatha or Nakshatranatha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarynakṣatranātha (नक्षत्रनाथ).—m (S) nakṣatrapati m (S Lord of the stars.) The moon.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishnakṣatranātha (नक्षत्रनाथ).—m nakṣatrapati m The moon.
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 dictionaryNakṣatranātha (नक्षत्रनाथ).—the moon; R.6.66.
Derivable forms: nakṣatranāthaḥ (नक्षत्रनाथः).
Nakṣatranātha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms nakṣatra and nātha (नाथ). See also (synonyms): nakṣatreśa, nakṣatreśvara, nakṣatrapa, nakṣatrapati, nakṣatrarāja.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryNakṣatranātha (नक्षत्रनाथ).—m. the moon, [Harivaṃśa, (ed. Calc.)] 16033.
Nakṣatranātha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms nakṣatra and nātha (नाथ).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryNakṣatranātha (नक्षत्रनाथ).—[masculine] the moon.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryNakṣatranātha (नक्षत्रनाथ):—[=nakṣatra-nātha] [from nakṣatra > nakṣ] m. ‘lord of the N°s’, the moon, [Harivaṃśa]
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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: Nakshatra, Natha.
Full-text: Nakshatresha, Nakshatrapa, Nakshatrapati, Nakshatraraja, Nakshatreshvara.
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