Seshvarasamkhya, Seśvarasāṃkhya, Seshvara-samkhya: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Seśvarasāṃkhya can be transliterated into English as Sesvarasamkhya or Seshvarasamkhya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySeśvarasāṃkhya (सेश्वरसांख्य).—the theistical branch of the सांख्य (sāṃkhya) school.
Derivable forms: seśvarasāṃkhyam (सेश्वरसांख्यम्).
Seśvarasāṃkhya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms seśvara and sāṃkhya (सांख्य).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySeśvarasāṃkhya (सेश्वरसांख्य):—[=seśvara-sāṃkhya] [from seśvara] n. the theistical branch of the Sāṃkhya school of philosophy, [Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha]
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 corpusSēśvarasāṃkhya (ಸೇಶ್ವರಸಾಂಖ್ಯ):—
1) [noun] a school of philosophy which recognises the principle of ಈಶ್ವರ [ishvara].
2) [noun] a man belonging to this school.
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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Partial matches: Seshvara, Samkhya.
Full-text: Nirishvara.
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