Vanmanasa, Vāṅmanasa, Vac-manasa: 2 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vāṅmanasa (वाङ्मनस).—n. (the duel -vāṅmanasī in Vedic language) speech and mind; अथैनं तुष्टुवुः स्तुत्यमवाङ्मनसगोचरम् (athainaṃ tuṣṭuvuḥ stutyamavāṅmanasagocaram) R.1.15; अतीतः पन्थानं तव च महिमा वाङ्मनसयोः (atītaḥ panthānaṃ tava ca mahimā vāṅmanasayoḥ) Śiva-mahimna 2.

Vāṅmanasa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vāc and manasa (मनस).

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

Vāṅmanasa (वाङ्मनस):—[=vāṅ-manasa] [from vāṅ > vāc] n. (sg. [Pāṇini; Vopadeva] or in [compound] [Gautama-dharma-śāstra; Vedāntasāra] or [dual number] [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]) speech and mind.

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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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