viṃśati

Dictionary meanings for viṃśati from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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viṃśati

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Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

f. (prob. for dvi-daśati, two decades) twenty, a score (with a noun either in genitive or in apposition, e.g. viṃśatir ghaṭānām, 20 jars; viṃśaty/ā h/aribhiḥ, with 20 horses) RV. &c 953,2 193740 f. a partic. form of military array (= vyūha) MBh. (Ni1lak.) 953,2 193741 m. N. of a son of Ikshva1ku ikṣvāku VP. [ cf. Gk. ϝίκατι, εἴκοσι; Lat. viginti. ] 123437 953,2 193742 mf (I) n. twentieth Pa1n2. 5-2, 56 (with bhāga...

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