Tushagni, Tuṣāgni, Tusha-agni: 5 definitions
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Tushagni 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 Tuṣāgni can be transliterated into English as Tusagni or Tushagni, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryTuṣāgni (तुषाग्नि).—
1) fire of the chaff or husk of corn.
2) a mode of capital punishment consisting in twisting straw round the limbs of a criminal and then setting it on fire.
Derivable forms: tuṣāgniḥ (तुषाग्निः).
Tuṣāgni is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms tuṣa and agni (अग्नि). See also (synonyms): tuṣānala.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryTuṣāgni (तुषाग्नि).—[masculine] fire of chaff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryTuṣāgni (तुषाग्नि):—[from tuṣa] m. chaff fire, [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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusTuṣāgni (ತುಷಾಗ್ನಿ):—
1) [noun] a fire of chaff or of the husk of corn; chaff-fire.
2) [noun] a kind of self-punishment of burning oneself in a chaff-fire, undertaken by a person in repentance.
3) [noun] (myth.) one of the hells.
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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