Vishiras, 痴颈艣颈谤补蝉: 4 definitions
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The Sanskrit term 痴颈艣颈谤补蝉 can be transliterated into English as Visiras or Vishiras, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English Translation痴颈艣颈谤补蝉 (啶掂た啶多た啶班じ啷�) refers to 鈥渢hose having no head鈥�, according to the 艢ivapur膩峁嘺 2.3.43 (鈥淒escription of 艢iva鈥檚 wonderful sport鈥�).鈥擜ccordingly, as Brahm膩 narrated to N膩rada: 鈥淸...] Immediately the army of 艢iva came there consisting of wonderful arrays of Bh奴tas, Pretas and Ga峁嘺s. [...] Some had no eyes. Some had many eyes. Some had no head (惫颈艣颈谤补蝉). Some had deformed heads. Some had no ears. Some had many ears. The Ga峁嘺s had all types of dresses and features. Such and other innumerable deformed Ga峁嘺s, heroic and terrible, strong and strenuous passed by, O dear. O sage, you pointed out the Ga峁嘺s of 艢iva to her with your finger and said鈥斺�極 lovely lady, see the attendants of 艢iva and 艢iva Himself鈥�. [...]鈥�.
The Purana (啶啶班ぞ啶�, pur膩峁嘺s) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India鈥檚 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.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary痴颈艣颈谤补蝉 (啶掂た啶多た啶班じ啷�).鈥擺adjective] headless (also ska), pointless, topless.
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) 痴颈艣颈谤补蝉 (啶掂た啶多た啶班じ啷�):鈥擺=惫颈-艣颈谤补蝉] [from vi] mfn. headless, [Mah膩bh膩rata; Hariva峁兣沘]
2) [v.s. ...] freed from a (foreign) head, [Mah膩bh膩rata]
3) [v.s. ...] topless, [Hariva峁兣沘]
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Sanskrit, also spelled 啶膏啶膏啶曕啶むぎ啷� (蝉补峁僺办峁泃补尘), 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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Starts with: Vishiraska.
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