Padapankti, Padapaṅkti, Pada-pankti: 6 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPadapaṅkti (पदपङ्क्ति).—f.
1) a line of foot-steps; द्वारेऽस्य पाण्डुसिकते पदपङ्क्तिर्दृश्यतेऽभिनवा (dvāre'sya pāṇḍusikate padapaṅktirdṛśyate'bhinavā) Ś.3.7; V.4.6.
2) a line or arrangement of words, a series of words; कृतपदपङ्क्तिरथर्वणेव वेदः (kṛtapadapaṅktiratharvaṇeva vedaḥ) Kirātārjunīya 1.1.
3) an iṣtakā or sacred brick.
4) a kind of metre.
Derivable forms: padapaṅktiḥ (पदपङ्क्तिः).
Padapaṅkti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pada and paṅkti (पङ्क्ति).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryPadapaṅkti (पदपङ्क्ति).—a line of footsteps, [Śākuntala, (ed. Böhtlingk.)] [distich] 56.
Padapaṅkti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pada and paṅkti (पङ्क्ति).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryPadapaṅkti (पदपङ्क्ति).—[feminine] = seq.; [Name] of a metre.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Padapaṅkti (पदपङ्क्ति):—[=pada-paṅkti] [from pada > pad] f. a series of footsteps, track, [Kālidāsa; Pañcatantra]
2) [v.s. ...] a series of words, [Kirātārjunīya]
3) [v.s. ...] a kind of metre (of 5 Padas of 5 syllables each), [Ṛgveda-prātiśākhya]
4) [v.s. ...] a sacred brick called after this metre, [Kātyāyana-śrauta-sūtra]
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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: Pada, Pankti, Pata.
Ends with: Mahapadapankti, Shatpadapankti.
Full-text: Mahapadapankti, Padashreni, Avagadha, Suvistara, Abhinava, Pada.
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