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Vaman Shivram Apte (1858 – 9 August 1892 [1]) was an Indian lexicographer and a professor of Sanskrit at Pune 's Fergusson College . He is best known for his compilation of a dictionary, The Student's English-Sanskrit Dictionary. [2]
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration ( IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that emerged during the 19th century from suggestions by Charles Trevelyan, William Jones, Monier Monier-Williams and other ...
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The Sanskrit word " श्रुति " ( IAST: Śruti, IPA: [ɕruti]) has multiple meanings depending on context. It means "hearing, listening", a call to "listen to a speech", any form of communication that is aggregate of sounds (news, report, rumour, noise, hearsay). [14] The word is also found in ancient geometry texts of India, where it ...
The text is one of the Vaishnava Upanishads, [8] completed before about 1500 CE, [9] and includes two verses called the Maha-mantra. [2] The modern era Kali-Santarana Upanishad is the earliest known Hindu text where this widely known mantra appears. [9]
Apaurusheya ( Sanskrit: अपौरुषेय, apauruṣeya, lit. means "not of a man"), meaning "not of human" [ 1] or "impersonal, authorless", is a term used to describe the Vedas, the earliest scripture in Hinduism. [ 2][ 3] Apaurusheya shabda ("impersonal words, authorless") is an extension of apaurusheya which refers to the Vedas and ...
Tattvārthasūtra, meaning "On the Nature [] of Reality []" (also known as Tattvarth-adhigama-sutra or Moksha-shastra) is an ancient Jain text written by Acharya Umaswami in Sanskrit, sometime between the 2nd- and 5th-century CE.
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