Pamsukula, Pamshu-kula, Pamshukula, Pamsu-kula, Paṃsukūla, Pāṃsukūla, Pāṃśukūla: 8 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Pāṃśukūla can be transliterated into English as Pamsukula or Pamshukula, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Pali-English dictionary

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Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

paṃsukūla : (m.) a dust heap.

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pāṃsukūla (पांसुकूल).—

1) a dust-heap.

2) a legal document not made out in any particular person's name (nirupapadaśāsanam).

Derivable forms: pāṃsukūlam (पांसुकूलम्).

Pāṃsukūla is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pāṃsu and kūla (कूल). See also (synonyms): pāṃśukūla.

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Pāṃśukūla (पांशुकूल).—

1) a dust-heap.

2) a legal document not made out in any particular person's name (nirupapadaśāsanam).

Derivable forms: pāṃśukūlam (पांशुकूलम्).

Pāṃśukūla is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pāṃśu and kūla (कूल). See also (synonyms): pāṃsukūla.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Pāṃśukūla (पांशुकूल).—(or pāṃsu°), nt. (= Pali paṃsu°), refuse rags (from a ‘dust-heap’, used for garments by monks): °śu° Lalitavistara 265.21 ff.; Mahāvastu iii.54.10 ff.; 311.8 ff. (here mss. favor °su°); Divyāvadāna 153.13; 424.2; 425.12; 559.11; Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 22b.2; in Avadāna-śataka i.182.8 Speyer °su° but according to his note ms. regularly °śu; ii.69.1; 114.12; °su° Mahāvyutpatti 8672; Divyāvadāna 56.26; 57.4; Jātakamālā 123.9; 125.14; in Jātakamālā 18.18 bālyaprajñaiḥ pāṃsudānaṃ sudānam Speyer assumes that pāṃsu = pāṃsukūla, but this is unprecedented and implausible; render, (even) a gift of dust made by people of childlike minds is a good gift, compare Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 50.11—12.

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

Pāṃśukūla (पांशुकूल).—n.

(-laṃ) 1. A dust-heap. 2. A black lease, a title deed, one not made out in any person’s name. E. pāṃśu landed property, kūla a mound, (as it were.)

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

1) Pāṃsukūla (पांसुकूल):—[=pāṃsu-kūla] [from pāṃsu > pāṃsaka] n. a dust-heap, ([especially]) a collections of rags out of a d°-h° used by Buddhist monks for their clothing, [Divyāvadāna]

2) [v.s. ...] a legal document not made out in any [particular] person’s name, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Pāṃśukūla (पांशुकूल):—[pāṃśu-kūla] (laṃ) 1. n. A blank lease, a title deed not filled up.

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Pamsukula in German

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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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