Skandhaksha, Skandhākṣa: 4 definitions
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Skandhaksha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Skandhākṣa can be transliterated into English as Skandhaksa or Skandhaksha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: archive.org: Puranic EncyclopediaSkandhākṣa (स्कन्धाक्ष).—A warrior of Subrahmaṇya. (Mahābhārata, Śalya Parva, Chapter 45, Verse 60).
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: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionarySkandhākṣa (स्कन्धाक्ष).—adj. or subst. m. (in Sanskrit once as name of an attendant of Skanda; [Boehtlingk and Roth] Augen auf den Schultern habend), (1) in Mahāvyutpatti 8837, in a list of deformities, according to Tibetan shoulder-eye, phrag mig, which according to [Tibetan-English Dictionary] is applied to a kind of spirits having eyes on their shoulders (also crab); (2) name of a yakṣa: Mahā-Māyūrī 81.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySkandhākṣa (स्कन्धाक्ष):—[from skandha] m. Name of one of Skanda’s attendants, [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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