Pancashabdika, Pāñcaśabdika: 6 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Pāñcaśabdika can be transliterated into English as Pancasabdika or Pancashabdika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Panchashabdika.

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pāñcaśabdika (पाञ्चशब्दिक).—

1) Music of five kinds; अङ्गजं कर्मजं चैव तन्त्रजं कांस्यजं तथा । फूत्कृतं चेति मुनिभिः कथितं पाञ्चशब्दिकम् (aṅgajaṃ karmajaṃ caiva tantrajaṃ kāṃsyajaṃ tathā | phūtkṛtaṃ ceti munibhiḥ kathitaṃ pāñcaśabdikam) || Skanda P.

2) Musical instruments in general.

Derivable forms: pāñcaśabdikam (पाञ्चशब्दिकम्).

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

Pāñcaśabdika (पाञ्चशब्दिक).—n.

(-kaṃ) Musical instruments in general, or of five sorts. E. pañca, śavda sound, and ṭhañ aff.

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

Pāñcaśabdika (पाञ्चशब्दिक):—[=pāñca-śabdika] [from pāñca] n. the fivefold music, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Pāñcaśabdika (पाञ्चशब्दिक):—[pāñca-śabdika] (kaṃ) 1. n. A musical instrument, one of five sorts.

[Sanskrit to German]

Pancashabdika 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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