Svapnashila, Svapnaśīla, Svapna-shila: 4 definitions
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Svapnashila 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 Svapnaśīla can be transliterated into English as Svapnasila or Svapnashila, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionarySvapnaśīla (स्वप्नशील).—a. disposed to sleep, sleepy, drowsy; न चातिस्वप्नशीलस्य जाग्रतो नैव चार्जन (na cātisvapnaśīlasya jāgrato naiva cārjana) Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 6.16.
Derivable forms: svapnaśīlaḥ (स्वप्नशीलः).
Svapnaśīla is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms svapna and śīla (शील).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionarySvapnaśīla (स्वप्नशील).—mfn.
(-laḥ-lā-laṃ) Sleepy, drowsy. E. svapna, and śīla having.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySvapnaśīla (स्वप्नशील):—[=svapna-śīla] [from svapna > svap] mfn. disposed to sleep, sleepy, drowsy, [Horace H. Wilson]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionarySvapnaśīla (स्वप्नशील):—[svapna-śīla] (laḥ-lā-laṃ) a. Sleepy.
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: Shila, Svapna, Cila.
Ends with: Atisvapnashila.
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