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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Vanasthalī (वनस्थली).—A forest region, description of; trees with flowers like kiṃśuka, karṇikāra, mañjau, and with birds like the cuckoo, crow, kapiñjala, kalaviṅga, parrot, swans, cakravāka, etc., and with animals like the cub of a lion, a pair of tigers, elephants, monkeys, cats, hares, snakes, boar, buffaloes, deer of different kinds, goats; all male and female enjoying sexual bliss.^*

• * Matsya-purāṇa 209. 3.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vanasthalī (वनस्थली).—a wood, forest ground; नखक्षतानीव वनस्थलीनाम् (nakhakṣatānīva vanasthalīnām) Kumārasambhava 3.29.

Vanasthalī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vana and sthalī (स्थली).

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

Vanasthalī (वनस्थली).—f. (-lī) Forest-ground.

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

Vanasthalī (वनस्थली).—[feminine] region or neighbourhood of a forest.

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

Vanasthalī (वनस्थली):—[=vana-sthalī] [from vana > van] f. f°-region, a wood, [Harivaṃśa; Kālidāsa]

[Sanskrit to German]

Vanasthali 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

Vanasthali (ವನಸ್ಥಲಿ):—[noun] = ವನಸ್ಥಲ [vanasthala].

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Vanasthaḷi (ವನಸ್ಥಳಿ):—[noun] = ವನಸ್ಥಲ [vanasthala].

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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.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Vanasthalī (वनस्थली):—n. a wood; forest-ground;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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Partial matches: Sthali, Stali, Vana.

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Paumacariya (critical study) (by K. R. Chandra)

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Purana Bulletin

The Relative Chronology of the Janapada Lists of the Puranas < [Purana, Volume 9, Part 2 (1967)]

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