Alternative spellings of this word include Panchamasvara.

In Hinduism

Shilpashastra (iconography)

Source: archive.org: Illustrations of Indian Music and Dance in Western Indian Style

Pañcamasvara (पञ्चमस्वर) is another name for pañcama: one of the three svaras (notes) used in Indian music.—Illustration of the pañcama according to 15th century art.—The colour of the body of pañcama-svara is white. He has six hands. He holds a conch in his uper right hand and a lotus flower in the left hand, with the two middle hands hold a vīṇā (Indian lute); his lower one hand is in varadamudrā and the other in abhayamudrā. His vehicle is a cuckoo. The colour of his scarf is rosy with a red design and the colour of his lower garment is green with a black design.

The illustrations (of, for example Pañcamasvara) are found scattered throughout ancient Jain manuscripts from Gujarat. The descriptions of these illustrations of this citrāvalī are based on the ślokas of Vācanācārya Gaṇi Sudhākalaśa’s Saṅgītopaniṣatsāroddhāra (14^th century) and Śārṅgadeva’s Saṅgītaratnākara (13^th century).

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Shilpashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, śilpaśāstra) represents the ancient Indian science (shastra) of creative arts (shilpa) such as sculpture, iconography and painting. Closely related to Vastushastra (architecture), they often share the same literature.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pañcamasvara (पञ्चमस्वर).—Name of a metre; P. R.

Derivable forms: pañcamasvaram (पञ्चमस्वरम्).

Pañcamasvara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pañcama and svara (स्वर).

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

Pañcamasvara (पञ्चमस्वर):—[=pañcama-svara] [from pañcama > pañca] n. Name of a metre, [Prasannarāghava]

[Sanskrit to German]

Pancamasvara 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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Partial matches: Svara, Pancama.

Full-text: Pancama, Saptama, Grama, Svara, Shruti.

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