महानग्न (mahAnagna)
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Spoken Sanskrit
English महानग्न mahAnagna kind of harlot
महानग्न mahAnagna paramour
महानग्न mahAnagna quite naked
महानग्न mahAnagna athlete
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Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
Englishmahā-nagna, m. (cpd. of mahā and nagna, q.v.
seems to correspond to Pali mahānāga, DN 〔i.51.10〕 °gā, n. pl., in a list of kinds of fighting men which includes uggā rājaputtā … sūrā cammayodhino etc.
comm. 〔i.157.6〕 mahānāgā viya mahānāgā
hatthiādisu pi abhimukham āgacchantesu anivattitayodhānaṃ etaṃ adhivacanaṃ, all of which only proves that the comm. did not understand the term
it is omitted in PTSD, altho Childers properly refers to Burnouf, Lotus, 〔452, n. 4〕, who in translating the Pali suggests equivalence to BHS mahānagna, which he takes to be the older form
Skt. nagna would give MIndic nagga, for which nāga might be substituted
Burnouf also compares the Skt. n. pr. Nagnajit, perh. conquering champions
pw and Speyer, Av Index, render athlete, but this is only an attempt to explain the word etymologically
it is implausible in several passages, and opposed by Tib.), great man, champion (orig. in warfare)
man of distinction, dignitary, grandee, nobleman
regularly (in Mvy and LV) rendered by Tib. tshan po (Jä. dignitary, grandee) che (great): (tasya dvau) °gnau saṃśritau Divy 〔372.12〕
tasyāpi °gno Bhadrāyudho nāmnānekasahasraparivāraḥ (can hardly mean athlete!), sa bhagavacchāsane pravrajito 'rhan saṃvṛttaḥ 〔373.20〕
krodhāviṣṭasya °gnasya Gv 〔504.5〕
(vajraṃ mahāpraharaṇaṃ) na śakyaṃ mahānagnenāpi saṃdhārayituṃ 〔509.4〕
°gnā(ḥ) Kv 〔41.21〕 (printed mahāmagnā)
Av 〔ii.102.15〕
often in comp. with bala (the might of a mahānagna being evidently proverbial): °gnabalam Mvy 〔8210〕
°gna-balopetāni LV 〔200.21〕 (prose)
sarve °gna-balair upetā LV 〔28.5〕 (vs)
others, cpd. with bala, MSV 〔i.100.10〕
Av 〔ii.108.12〕
〔110.3〕
with -balin, Av 〔i.376.1, 4, 18〕
without -bala, duṣṭamalla-mahanagna-samā LV 〔153.8〕 (vs
maha = mahā, m.c.). Cf. next.
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