Vikshinaka, Vikṣīṇaka: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Vikṣīṇaka can be transliterated into English as Viksinaka or Vikshinaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryVikṣīṇaka (विक्षीणक).—
1) Name of the chief of a class of beings attending on Śiva.
2) An assembly of the gods.
3) A destroyer.
4) A place from which flesh-eaters are excluded.
Derivable forms: vikṣīṇakaḥ (विक्षीणकः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryVikṣīṇaka (विक्षीणक).—m.
(-kaḥ) 1. The chief of a class of demigods, enumerated amongst those attached to Siva, and the ministers of destruction amongst men by plague, pestilence, &c. 2. A meeting or assembly of the gods. 3. A place prohibited to eaters of meat. E. vi before, kṣīṇa wasted, (by whom,) and kan added.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Vikṣīṇaka (विक्षीणक):—[=vi-kṣīṇaka] [from vi-kṣiṇatka > vi-kṣi] [varia lectio] for kṣiṇatka
2) [v.s. ...] m. ‘destroyer’, Name of the chief of a class of demigods attendant on Śiva (described as causing destruction by pestilential diseases etc.), [Horace H. Wilson]
3) [v.s. ...] a meeting or assembly of the gods, [ib.]
4) [v.s. ...] a place prohibited to eaters of meat, [ib.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryVikṣīṇaka (विक्षीणक):—[vi-kṣīṇaka] (kaḥ) 1. m. Chief of a class of demigods attached to Shiva; assembly of the gods; place prohibited to flesh-eaters.
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