The Sanskrit term Śatacakra can be transliterated into English as Satacakra or Shatacakra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Shatachakra.

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English Translation

Śatacakra (शतचक्र) refers to a “hundred wheels” (of a chariot), according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.4.5 (“Kārttikeya is crowned”).—Accordingly, as Brahmā narrated to Nārada: “In the meantime he saw an excellent, lustrous and wonderful chariot, made by Viśvakarman. It was a commodious with a hundred wheels (śatacakra). It was beautiful and had the quickness of the mind. It had been sent by Pārvatī and was surrounded by the excellent attendants of Śiva. With an aching heart, Kārttikeya, born of the semen of lord Śiva, the perfectly wise and endless Being, got into it. At the same time, the distressed grief-stricken Kṛttikās approached him with dishevelled hair and began to speak like mad women”.

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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

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śatacakra (शतचक्र).—[adjective] having a hundred wheels.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śatacakra (शतचक्र):—[=śata-cakra] [from śata] (śata-) mfn. hundred-wheeled, [Ṛg-veda]

[Sanskrit to German]

Shatacakra in German

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Cakra, Shata.

Starts with: Shatacakrabheda.

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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)

Rig Veda 10.144.4 < [Sukta 144]

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