Pancasuna, Pañcasūnā, Pancan-suna, Pamcasuna: 5 definitions
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Pancasuna means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Alternative spellings of this word include Panchasuna.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPañcasūnā (पञ्चसूना).—f. the five things in a house by which animal life may be accidentally destroyed; they are:-पञ्चसूना गृहस्थस्य चुल्ली पेषण्युपस्करः कण्डनी चोदकुम्भश्च (pañcasūnā gṛhasthasya cullī peṣaṇyupaskaraḥ kaṇḍanī codakumbhaśca) Manusmṛti 3.68.
Derivable forms: pañcasūnāḥ (पञ्चसूनाः).
Pañcasūnā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pañcan and sūnā (सूना).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPañcasūnā (पञ्चसूना).—m. plu.
(-nāḥ) The five things in a house by which animal life may be accidentally destroyed; viz:—the fire place, the slab on which condiments are ground, the broom, the pestle and mortar, and the waterpot. E. pañca five, and sūnā place of slaughter.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPañcasūnā (पञ्चसूना):—[=pañca-sūnā] [from pañca] f. [plural] 5 things in a house by which animal life may be accidentally destroyed (viz. the fire-place, slab for grinding condiments, broom, pestle and mortar, and water-pot), [Horace H. Wilson; Religious Thought and Life in India 418.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryPañcasūnā (पञ्चसूना):—[pañca-sūnā] (nāḥ) 1. m. plu. Five things in a house, fire-place, slab, broom, mortar-pestle and water-pot.
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 corpusPaṃcasūna (ಪಂಚಸೂನ):—[noun] (pl.) the five domestic works pounding, winnowing, grinding, firing the oven and filling water into containers (by which the householder indirectly commits sins of hurting living beings).
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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