Shakhacandranyaya, Śākhācandranyāya, Shakha-candranyaya: 4 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śākhācandranyāya can be transliterated into English as Sakhacandranyaya or Shakhacandranyaya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Shakhachandranyaya.
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryśākhācandranyāya (शाखाचंद्रन्याय).—(The rule or law of the moon upon a bough.) A Sanskrit phrase adduced as a simile or an illustration when an object seen or a matter debated has its position or relation assigned to it as at, on, in consistency with &c. a particular object or matter, simply from the appearance of contiguity or connection which, under one line of view or one train of reasoning, it ordinarily presents; whilst actually and truly it is remote from it so widely as to preclude altogether affirmation of connection. Ex. samudrānta sūrya buḍatō hī śākhācandranyāyēṅkarūna ukti āhē We say the sun sinks in the ocean by the same law as we say the moon is upon a bough of a tree; speaking in both cases from the appearance presented.
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.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryŚākhācandranyāya (शाखाचन्द्रन्याय).—see under न्याय (nyāya).
Derivable forms: śākhācandranyāyaḥ (शाखाचन्द्रन्यायः).
Śākhācandranyāya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śākhā and candranyāya (चन्द्रन्याय).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚākhācandranyāya (शाखाचन्द्रन्याय).—m.
(-yaḥ) The maxim of the moon and a bough; it is adduced in illustration when an object has its position assigned to it from the appearance of contiguity.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚākhācandranyāya (शाखाचन्द्रन्याय):—[=śākhā-candra-nyāya] [from śākhā > śākh] m. rule of the moon on a bough (a phrase denoting that an object seen or matter discussed has its position or relation assigned to it merely from the appearance of contiguity), [ib.]
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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