Parikarmashtaka, Parikarmāṣṭaka, Parikarman-ashtaka: 5 definitions

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Parikarmashtaka means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. 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.

The Sanskrit term Parikarmāṣṭaka can be transliterated into English as Parikarmastaka or Parikarmashtaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Marathi-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Parikarmashtaka in Marathi glossary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

parikarmāṣṭaka (परिकर्माष्टक).—n S The eight introductory or fundamental rules of arithmetic; viz. addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to the square, extraction of the square-root, raising to the cube, extraction of the cube-root.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Parikarmashtaka in Sanskrit glossary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Parikarmāṣṭaka (परिकर्माष्टक).—the eight fundamental rules of arithmetic viz. (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, finding the square, extracting the square root, finding the cube, extracting the cube root).

Derivable forms: parikarmāṣṭakam (परिकर्माष्टकम्).

Parikarmāṣṭaka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms parikarman and aṣṭaka (अष्टक).

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

Parikarmāṣṭaka (परिकर्माष्टक):—[=pari-karmāṣṭaka] [from pari-karman > pari-kṛ] n. the 8 fundamental rules of arithmetic (viz. addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, finding the square, extracting the square root, finding the cube, extracting the cube root), [Colebrooke]

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

Parikarmāṣṭaka (परिकर्माष्टक):—[parikarmā+ṣṭaka] (kaṃ) 1. n. The eight rules of arithmetic.

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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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Kannada-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Parikarmashtaka in Kannada glossary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Parikarmāṣṭaka (ಪರಿಕರ್ಮಾಷ್ಟಕ):—[noun] (math.) (pl.) the eight mathematical operations as addition, dedcuction, multiplication, division, a converting a quantity into its square, cube, square root and cube root.

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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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