Shankhakuta, Śaṅkhakūṭa: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śaṅkhakūṭa can be transliterated into English as Sankhakuta or Shankhakuta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Śaṅkhakūṭa (शङ्खकूट).—Mt. a hill range on the north of Meru.*
- * Viṣṇu-purāṇa II. 2. 30.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
1) Śaṅkhakūṭa (शङ्खकूट):—[=śaṅkha-kūṭa] [from śaṅkha] m. Name of a serpent-demon, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
2) [v.s. ...] of a mountain, [Purāṇa]
Śaṅkhakūṭa (शङ्खकूट):—m. Nomen proprium
1) eines Schlangendämons [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1311, Scholiast] (śaṃṣakūṭa die Hdschr.). —
2) eines Berges [Viṣṇupurāṇa 169.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 55, 12. 56, 17.]
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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