The Sanskrit term Śvayūthya can be transliterated into English as Svayuthya or Shvayuthya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of Sriharsa

Svayūthya (स्वयूथ्य) “members of their own faith [viz., the Buddhist faith]”, as mentioned in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā.—[...] The Buddhists thus use the words Tīrthika, Tīrthya and Tīrthakara to signify the adherents o f non-Buddhist, especially Brahmanical, schools of thought, as distinguished from the members of their own faith, the Svayūthyas, as they are called in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā.

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Śvayūthya (श्वयूथ्य).—a pack of dogs.

Derivable forms: śvayūthyam (श्वयूथ्यम्).

Śvayūthya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śvan and yūthya (यूथ्य).

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Svayūthya (स्वयूथ्य).—a relation.

Derivable forms: svayūthyaḥ (स्वयूथ्यः).

Svayūthya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sva and yūthya (यूथ्य).

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

1) Śvayūthya (श्वयूथ्य):—[=śva-yūthya] [from śva > śvan] n. ([Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]) a number or pack of d°.

2) Svayūthya (स्वयूथ्य):—[=sva-yūthya] [from sva] m. a relation, one’s belongings ([plural]), [Mahābhārata]

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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: Shva, Shvan, Yuthya.

Full-text: Tirthya, Tirthakara, Tirthika.

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