Purvashaila, Pūrvaśaila, Purva-shaila: 8 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Pūrvaśaila can be transliterated into English as Purvasaila or Purvashaila, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
India history and geography
Source: archive.org: Geography in Ancient Indian inscriptionsPūrvaśaila (पूर्वशैल).—Another Nagarjunakond inscription mentions Purva-sela, which possibly refers to the mountain on which the Pūrva-śaila monastry mentioned in the Dharaṇikoṭa Dharmacakra Pillar inscription was situated.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPūrvaśaila (पूर्वशैल).—see पूर्वपर्वत (pūrvaparvata).
Derivable forms: pūrvaśailaḥ (पूर्वशैलः).
Pūrvaśaila is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pūrva and śaila (शैल).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryPūrvaśaila (पूर्वशैल).—m. pl. (= Pali Pubba-seliya, see Apara-ś° and Critical Pali Dictionary s.v. Apara-seliya), name of a (heretical) school: Mahāvyutpatti 9090.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPūrvaśaila (पूर्वशैल) or Pūrvvaśaila.—m.
(-laḥ) The eastern mountain, behind which the sun is supposed to rise. E. pūrva eastern, śaila a mountain.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Pūrvaśaila (पूर्वशैल):—[=pūrva-śaila] [from pūrva] m. = -parvata, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
2) [v.s. ...] [plural] Name of a Buddhist school
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryPūrvaśaila (पूर्वशैल):—[pūrva-śaila] (laḥ) 1. m. The eastern mountain where the sun rises.
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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: Shaila, Purva.
Starts with: Purvashailasamgharama.
Full-text: Purvashailasamgharama, Avarashaila, Uttarashaila, Purvvadri, Purvvashaila, Aparashaila, Purvadri, Shaila.
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