Pancashati, Pañcāśati: 6 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Pañcāśati can be transliterated into English as Pancasati or Pancashati, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Panchashati.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Pañcāśati (पञ्चाशति).—f. Fifty.

Derivable forms: pañcāśatiḥ (पञ्चाशतिः).

See also (synonyms): pañcāśat.

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

Pañcāśati (पञ्चाशति).—(analogical alteration of pañcāśat, like rare Sanskrit triṃśati; recorded by [Boehtlingk and Roth] once from Rājat.), fifty: °tīnāṃ sama yojanānām Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 95.1 (verse). Burnouf and Kern wrongly 500.

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

Pañcāśati (पञ्चाशति).—i. e. pañcā -daśanti (see the preceding), numeral, f. Fifty, [Rājataraṅgiṇī] 5, 71 (ā is perhaps only a mistake; when shortened, we have pañcaśatī, Five hundred).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Pañcaśatī (पञ्चशती) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—See Mūkapañcaśatī.

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

1) Pañcaśatī (पञ्चशती):—[=pañca-śatī] [from pañca-śata > pañca] f. 500 [Kathāsaritsāgara]

2) [v.s. ...] a period of 500 years, [Vajracchedikā]

3) [v.s. ...] Name of [work]

4) Pañcāśati (पञ्चाशति):—[from pañca] f. ([Rājataraṅgiṇī]) fifty.

[Sanskrit to German]

Pancashati 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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