Shamyapata, Śamyāpāta, Shamya-pata: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śamyāpāta can be transliterated into English as Samyapata or Shamyapata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryŚamyāpāta (शम्यापात).—the distance that a staff can be thrown; the cast of a staff; शम्यापातेनाभ्यतीयाद्वेदीभिश्चित्रयन् महीम् (śamyāpātenābhyatīyādvedībhiścitrayan mahīm) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.29.95; Manusmṛti 8.237.
Derivable forms: śamyāpātaḥ (शम्यापातः).
Śamyāpāta is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śamyā and pāta (पात). See also (synonyms): śamyākṣepa.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚamyāpāta (शम्यापात).—m.
(-taḥ) The cast of a stick. E. śamyā and pāta alighting.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚamyāpāta (शम्यापात).—[masculine] a Śamyā-throw (cf. [preceding]).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚamyāpāta (शम्यापात):—[=śamyā-pāta] [from śamyā > śam] m. ([Mahābhārata]) = -kṣepa above.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚamyāpāta (शम्यापात):—[śamyā-pāta] (taḥ) 1. m. Throwing a stick.
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: Shamya, Pata.
Full-text: Shamyakshepa.
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