Alternative spellings of this word include Panchapanchanakha.

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

Pañcapañcanakha (पञ्चपञ्चनख).—m.

(-khaḥ) Five kinds of animals allowed to be killed and eaten, the hare, porcupine, alligator, rhinoceros, and tortoise. E. pañca, and pañcanakha a five-toed animal.

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

Pañcapañcanakha (पञ्चपञ्चनख):—[=pañca-pañca-nakha] [from pañca] m. species of 5 animals allowed to be killed and eaten (vix. the hare, porcupine, alligator, rhinoceros, and tortoise), [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Pañcapañcanakha (पञ्चपञ्चनख):—[pañca-pañca-nakha] (khaḥ) 1. m. Five kinds of animals that may be killed, the hare, the porcupine, the alligator, the rhinoceros and the tortoise.

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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: Nakha.

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