The Sanskrit term Śilāpuṣpa can be transliterated into English as Silapuspa or Shilapushpa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Śilāpuṣpa (शिलापुष्प) refers to “rocks and flowers”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [As the Bhagavān teaches an offering manual]: “[...] All crops, all flowers and fruits will be well protected. [...] Until the stake is driven out all kinds of pests, produced from moist heat, self-produced and egg-born, arisen from rocks or flowers (śilāpuṣpa—śilāpuṣpasamudbhūtāḥ), do not prevail. Harm of various sorts caused by Nāgas will not be victorious again. [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

śilāpuṣpa (शिलापुष्प).—n S Styrax &c. See śilākusuma.

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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 dictionary

Śilāpuṣpa (शिलापुष्प).—benzoin; व्यस्तशुकनिभशिलाकुसुमः प्रणुदन्ववौ वनसदां परिश्रमम् (vyastaśukanibhaśilākusumaḥ praṇudanvavau vanasadāṃ pariśramam) Ki. 12.5.

Derivable forms: śilāpuṣpam (शिलापुष्पम्).

Śilāpuṣpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śilā and puṣpa (पुष्प). See also (synonyms): śilākusuma.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śilāpuṣpa (शिलापुष्प).—n.

(-ṣpaṃ) Storax or Benzoin. E. śilā a rock, puṣpa flower.

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

1) Śilāpuṣpa (शिलापुष्प):—[=śilā-puṣpa] [from śilā] n. ‘rock-efflorescence’, bitumen, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] storax or benzoin, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Śilāpuṣpa (शिलापुष्प):—[śilā-puṣpa] (ṣpaṃ) 1. n. Storax; benzoin.

[Sanskrit to German]

Shilapushpa 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.

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Partial matches: Pushpa, Shila, Cila.

Full-text: Shila pushpa, Shilakusuma.

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