Shivadasa, Śivadāsa, Shiva-dasa: 5 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Śivadāsa can be transliterated into English as Sivadasa or Shivadasa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Śivadāsa (शिवदास).—m. a proper name.

Śivadāsa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śiva and dāsa (दास).

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

Śivadāsa (शिवदास).—[masculine] names of men.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Śivadāsa (शिवदास) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—son of Śrīdhara Mālava, father of Sūryadāsa, grandfather of Rāma or Rāmacandra (Kuṇḍākṛti 1449, etc.). W. p. 34. Oxf. 341^b. 358^a.

2) Śivadāsa (शिवदास):—father of Mitraśarman, father of Janārdana, father of Bhairava, father of Nārāyaṇa, father of Mādhava, father of Rāmakṛṣṇa Bhaṭṭa (Siddhāntacandrikā 1543). Hall. p. 173. L. 2542.

3) Śivadāsa (शिवदास):—Kathārṇava. Vetālapañcaviṃśati. Śālivāhanacaritra.

4) Śivadāsa (शिवदास):—Jātakamuktāvalī. Jyotirnibandhasaṃgraha. See Śivarāja.

5) Śivadāsa (शिवदास):—Mānavaśulbasūtrabhāṣya.

6) Śivadāsa (शिवदास):—Sārāvalī med.

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

1) Śivadāsa (शिवदास):—[=śiva-dāsa] [from śiva] m. ‘Ś°’s servant’, Name of various writers and other men ([especially] of the author of the Kathārṇava, the Vetāla-pañcaviṃśati, and the Śāli-vāhana-caritra), [Catalogue(s)]

2) [v.s. ...] (with cakravartin) Name of the author of a [commentator or commentary] on the Uṇādi-sūtra of the Kātantra grammar, [ib.]

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Shivadasa 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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