Alternative spellings of this word include Panchagupta.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pañcagupta (पञ्चगुप्त).—

1) a tortoise (as drawing in its 4 feet and head).

2) the materialistic system of philosophy, the doctrines of the Chārvākas.

Derivable forms: pañcaguptaḥ (पञ्चगुप्तः).

Pañcagupta is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pañcan and gupta (गुप्त).

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

Pañcagupta (पञ्चगुप्त).—m.

(-ptaḥ) 1. A tortoise, a turtle. 2. The atheistical system of the Baud'dhas. E. pañca five, (members, &c.) gupta concealed.

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

1) Pañcagupta (पञ्चगुप्त):—[=pañca-gupta] [from pañca] m. ‘covered or protected in a fivefold manner’, a tortoise (as drawing in its 4 feet and head; cf. pañcāṅga-g), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] the materialistic system of the Cārvākas, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Pañcagupta (पञ्चगुप्त):—[pañca-gupta] (ptaḥ) 1. m. A tortoise; system of the Bauddhas.

[Sanskrit to German]

Pancagupta in German

context information

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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Paṃcagupta (ಪಂಚಗುಪ್ತ):—

1) [noun] a tortoise that hides its four legs and the head in its hard shell.

2) [noun] the philosophic doctrine that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world, including thought, will, and feeling, can be explained only in terms of it; materialism.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Gupta, Panca.

Full-text: Pancangagupta.

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