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skandhā

m

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1. skandhä-

m

2. سكَنده

skandh (sometimes written skand) cl. 10. P. skandhayati, to collect, Dhātup. xxxv, 84.

3. سكَندهَ

skandha m. ( accord. to Uṇ. iv, 206 , from √ skand in the sense of ‘rising’ ?) the shoulder, upper part of the back or region from the neck to the shoulder-joint (in men and animals), AV. &c. &c.

4. سكَندهَ

the stem or trunk of a tree ( esp. that part of the stem where the branches begin), ŚāṅkhGṛ. ; MBh. &c.

5. سكَندهَ

(with Buddhists ) the five constituent elements of being ( viz. rūpa, ‘bodily form’; vedanā, ‘sensation’; saṃjñā, ‘perception’; saṃskāra, ‘aggregate of formations’; vijñāna, ‘consciousness or thought-faculty’), MWB. 109

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.