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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Tanuvāta (तनुवात).—a kind of hell; Jain.

Derivable forms: tanuvātaḥ (तनुवातः).

Tanuvāta is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms tanu and vāta (वात).

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

Tanuvāta (तनुवात).—m.

(-taḥ) A division of hell. E. tanu thin, small, and vāta wind.

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

Tanuvāta (तनुवात):—[=tanu-vāta] [from tanu > tan] m. a highly rarified atmosphere (constituting a kind of hell; opposed to ghana-v), [Jaina literature]

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

Tanuvāta (तनुवात):—[tanu-vāta] (taḥ) 1. m. A division of hell.

[Sanskrit to German]

Tanuvata 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Tanuvāta (ತನುವಾತ):—[noun] (Jain.) one of the three air (or ether) believed to be holding all the eight worlds.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Vata, Tanu.

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