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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]
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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 ...
t. e. In Buddhism, an āgama (आगम Sanskrit and Pāli, Tibetan ལུང་ (Wylie: lung) for " sacred work" [1] or "scripture" [2]) is a collection of early Buddhist texts . The five āgama together comprise the Suttapiṭaka of the early Buddhist schools, which had different recensions of each āgama. In the Pali Canon of the Theravada ...
Nirukta ( Sanskrit: निरुक्त, IPA: [n̪iɾuktɐ], "explained, interpreted") is one of the six ancient Vedangas, or ancillary science connected with the Vedas – the scriptures of Hinduism. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Nirukta covers etymology, and is the study concerned with correct interpretation of Sanskrit words in the Vedas. [ 3]
In 1813 he published the Sanskrit text with a free translation in English rhymed verse of Kalidasa's lyrical poem, the Meghadūta, or Cloud-Messenger. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] He prepared the first Sanskrit–English Dictionary (1819) from materials compiled by native scholars, supplemented by his own researches.
Advayataraka Upanishad is an ancient Sanskrit text and a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. It is one of the 19 Upanishads attached to the Shukla Yajurveda. [2] It is classified as a Yoga Upanishad. [3] [4] The Upanishad is notable for its discussion of Guru (teacher). The text discusses three goals of introspection, Taraka yoga and the nondual ...
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 ...