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varman	वर्मन् n. [आवृणोति अङ्गम् वृ-मनिन् Uṇ.4.157] 1 An armour, a coat of mail; स्वहृदयमर्मणि वर्म करोति सजलनलिनी- दलजालम् Gīt.4; R.4.56; Mu.2.8; Śi.15.76. -2 (Hence) Shelter, protection. -3 Bark, rind. -4 N. of preservative mantras (esp. of हुम्). -m. An affix added to the names of Kṣatriyas; as चण्डवर्मन्, प्रहारवर्मन्; cf. दास. -Comp. -हर a. 1 wearing armour. -2 old enough to wear armour (i. e. to take part in battle); सम्यग्वि- नीतमथ वर्महरं कुमारम् R.8.94.

parivarman	परिवर्मन् a. Clad in mail; armed.

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varman	n. [envelope: √ 1. vri] ar mour, mail (V., C.); protection, shelter (V.); often --°ree; in names of Kshatriyas.

siṃhavarman	m. N.; -vikrama, m. N. of a fairy prince; N. of a thief; -vi krânta, pp. valiant as a lion; -vishtara, throne (?); -vyâghra½âmishî-kri, make a prey to the lion and the tiger; -sâva, -sisu, m. lion's cub; -srî, f. N.; -svâmin, m. N. of a temple erected in honour of Simharâga; -½aksha, m. (Lion-eye), N. of a king.

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Denotes ‘body armour,’ ‘coat of mail,’ ‘corselet,’ in the Rigveda and later. Of what material it was made is uncertain; there are references to sewing (syñta) which may be reckoned in favour of the use of linen corselets such as those recorded by Herodotus, but there is a later reference to corselets of Ayas, Loha, or Rajata, on which it is doubtful whether much stress can be laid. They may, however, have been either of metal or of leather covered with metal.

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aśmamayena	varmaṇā Kauś.46.55e.

brahma	varmāṇi cakrire AVś.5.8.6b; 11.10.17b; AVP.7.18.8b.

brahmaṇā	varmaṇāham TA.2.19.1b.

tābhir	varmāṇy abhito vyayasva Apś.4.6.4c. Cf. tābhir me marmāṇy.

indrasya	tvā varmaṇā pari dhāpayāmaḥ # AVś.19.46.4a; AVP.4.23.4a.

tāni	me varmāṇi bahulāni santu # AVś.19.20.2d; AVP.1.108.2d.

tābhir	me marmāṇy abhito dadasva # AVP.12.20.7c. Cf. tābhir varmāṇy.

parīvṛto	brahmaṇā varmaṇāham # AVś.17.1.28a. See next, and prajāpater āvṛto.

prajāpater	āvṛto brahmaṇā varmaṇāham # AVś.17.1.27a. See under parīvṛto brahmaṇā.

marmāṇi	te varmaṇā (TS. varmabhiś) chādayāmi # RV.6.75.18a; AVś.7.118.1a; SV.2.1220a; VS.17.49a; TS.4.6.4.5a. P: marmāṇi te Vait.34.12; Kś.13.3.11; Kauś.16.7; BṛhPDh.9.111.

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yakṣavarmana	author of the commentary called चिन्तामणि on the SabdaanuSaasana of Sakataayana.

sarvavarman	spelt as शर्वबर्मन् also, the reputed author of the Katantra Vyakarana. He is believed to have been a contemporary of the poet Gunadbya at the Satavahana court, and to have revised and redacted the Katantra Sutras already existing for the benefit of his patron. With him began the Katantra school of grammar, the main contribution to which was made by दुर्गसिंहृ who wrote a scholarly gloss on the Katantra Sutras. For details see कातन्त्र,

ajitasena	author of the Cintāmaṇiprakāśika a gloss on Cintāmaṇi, the well known commentary by Yakṣavarman on the Sabdānuśāsana of Śākatāyana. Ajitasena was the grand pupil of Abhayadeva; he lived in the 12th century A.D.

kalāpa(कलाप-व्याकरण)	alternative name given to the treatise on grammar written by Sarvavarman who is believed to have lived in the days of the Sātavāhana kings. The treatise is popularly known by the namc Kātantra Vyākaraṇa. The available treatise,viz. Kalpasūtras, is much similar to the Kātantra Sūtras having a few changes and additions only here and there.It is rather risky to say that Kalāpa was an ancient system of grammar which is referred to in the Pāṇini Sūtra कलापिनोण् P. IV.3.108. For details see कातन्त्र.

kātantra	name of an important small treatise on grammar which appears like a systematic abridgment of the Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī. of Pāṇini. It ignores many unimportant rules of Pāṇini, adjusts many, and altogether omits the Vedic portion and the accent chapter of Pāṇini. It lays down the Sūtras in an order different from that of Pāṇini dividing the work into four adhyāyas dealing with technical terms, saṁdhi rules,declension, syntax compounds noun-affixes ( taddhita affixes ) conjugation, voice and verbal derivatives in an order. The total number of rules is 1412 supplemented by many subordinate rules or Vārttikas. The treatise is believed to have been written by Śarvavarman, called Sarvavarman or Śarva or Sarva, who is said to have lived in the reign of the Sātavāhana kings. The belief that Pāṇini refers to a work of Kalāpin in his rules IV. 3.108 and IV.3.48 and that Patañjali's words कालापम् and माहवार्तिकम् support it, has not much strength. The work was very popular especially among those who wanted to study spoken Sanskrit with ease and attained for several year a very prominent place among text-books on grammar especially in Bihar, Bengal and Gujarat. It has got a large number of glosses and commentary works, many of which are in a manuscript form at present. Its last chapter (Caturtha-Adhyāya) is ascribed to Vararuci. As the arrangement of topics is entirely different from Pāṇini's order, inspite of considerable resemblance of Sūtras and their wording, it is probable that the work was based on Pāṇini but composed on the models of ancient grammarians viz. Indra, Śākaṭāyana and others whose works,although not available now, were available to the author. The grammar Kātantra is also called Kālāpa-vyākaraṇasūtra.. A comparison of the Kātantra Sūtras and the Kālāpa-vyākaraṇasūtra. Sūtras shows that the one is a different version of the other. The Kātantra Grammar is also called Kaumāra as it is said that the original 1nstructions for the grammar were received by the author from Kumāra or Kārttikeya. For details see Vol. VII Patañjala Mahābhāṣya published by the D.E. Society, Poona, page 375.

kārtikeya	the original instructor of the Kātantra or Kālāpa-vyākaraṇasūtra. Grammar, to Śarvavarman who composed the Sūtras according to inspiration received by him. The Kātantra, hence, has also got the name Kaumara Vyākaraṇa.

kaumāra,komāravyākaraṇa(1)	an alternative name of the Kātantra Vyākaraṇa given to it on the strength of the traditional belief that the original inspiration for writing it was received by Sarvavarman from Kumara or Kārtikeya; (2) small treatises bearing the name Kaumāravyākaraṇa written by Munipuṅgava and Bhāvasena. The latter has written Kātantrarūpamāla also.

dhāturatnamañjarī	a treatise dealing with roots believed to have been written by Ramasimhavarman.

pāṇini	the illustrious ancient grammarian of India who is wellknown by his magnum opus, the Astaka or Astaadhyaayi which has maintained its position as a unique work on Sanskrit grammar unparalleled upto the present day by any other work on grammar, not only of the Sanskrit language, but ofany other language, classical as well as spoken. His mighty intelligence grasped, studied and digested not only the niceties of accentuation and formation of Vedic words, scattered in the vast Vedic Literature of his time, but those of classical words in the classical literature and the spoken Sanskrit language of his time in all its different aspects and shades, noticeable in the various provinces and districts of the vast country. The result of his careful study of the Vedic Literature and close observation ofeminine.the classical Sanskrit, which was a spoken language in his days, was the production of the wonderful and monumental work, the Astaadhyaayi,which gives an authoritative description of the Sanskrit language, to have a complete exposition of which,several life times have to be spent,in spite of several commentaries upon it, written from time to time by several distinguished scholars. The work is a linguist's and not a language teacher's. Some Western scholars have described it as a wonderful specimen of human intelligence,or as a notable manifestation of human intelligence. Very little is known unfortunately about his native place,parentage or personal history. The account given about these in the Kathaasaritsaagara and other books is only legendary and hence, it has very little historical value. The internal evidence, supplied by his work shows that he lived in the sixth or the seventh century B. C., if not earlier, in the north western province of India of those days. Jinendrabuddhi, the author of the Kaasikavivaranapanjikaa or Nyasa, has stated that the word शलातुर् mentioned by him in his sUtra ( IV. 3.94 ) refers to his native place and the word शालातुरीय derived by him from the word शलातुर by that sUtra was, in fact his own name, based upon the name of the town which formed his native placcusative case. Paanini has shown in his work his close knowledge of, and familiarity with, the names of towns, villages, districts, rivers and mountains in and near Vaahika, the north-western Punjab of the present day, and it is very likely that he was educated at the ancient University of Taksasilaa. Apart from the authors of the Pratisaakhya works, which in a way could be styled as grammar works, there were scholars of grammar as such, who preceded him and out of whom he has mentioned ten viz., Apisali, Saakataayana, Gaargya, Saakalya, Kaasyapa, Bharadwaja, Gaalava, Caakravarmana Senaka and Sphotaayana. The grammarian Indra has not been mentioned by Paanini, although tradition says that he was the first grammarian of the Sanskrit language. It is very likely that Paanini had no grammar work of Indra before him, but at the same time it can be said that the works of some grammarians , mentioned by Panini such as Saakaatyana, Apisali, Gaargya and others had been based on the work of Indra. The mention of several ganas as also the exhaustive enumeration of all the two thousand and two hundred roots in the Dhaatupaatha can very well testify to the existence of systematic grammatical works before Paarnini of which he has made a thorough study and a careful use in the composition of his Ganapaatha and Dhaatupatha. His exhaustive grammar of a rich language like Sanskrit has not only remained superb in spite of several other grammars of the language written subsequently, but its careful study is felt as a supreme necessity by scholars of philology and linguistics of the present day for doing any real work in the vast field of linguistic research. For details see pp.151154 Vol. VII of Paatanjala Mahaabhsya, D. E. Society's Edition.

bhāvaśarman	the author of the कातन्त्रपरिभाषावृत्ति, a work on the Paribhāșās in grammar which are utilized in explaining the rules of the कातन्त्रव्याकरण by Śarvavarman.

vararuci(1)	a reputed ancient grammarian who is identified with Katyayana, the prominent author of the Varttikas on the Sutras of Panini. Both the names वररुचि and कात्यायन are mentioned in commentary works in connection with the Varttikas on the Sutras of Panini, and it is very likely that Vararuci was the individual name of the scholar, and Katyayana his family name. The words कात्य and कात्यायन are found used in Slokavarttikas in the Mahabhasya on P.III.2.3 and III.2.118 where references made are actually found in the prose Varttikas (see कविधेो सर्वत्र प्रसारणिभ्यो ड: P.III. 2. 3 Vart and स्मपुरा भूतमात्रे न स्मपुराद्यतने P.III.2.118 Vart. 1)indicating that the Slokavarttikakara believed that the Varttikas were composed by Katyayana. There is no reference at all in the Mahabhasya to Vararuci as a writer of the Varttikas; there is only one reference which shows that there was a scholar by name Vararuci known to Patanjali, but he was a poet; confer, compare वाररुचं काव्यं in the sense of 'composed' ( कृत and not प्रोक्त ) by वररुचि M.Bh. on P. IV. 2.4. ( 2 ) वररुचि is also mentioned as the author of the Prakrta Grammar known by the name प्राकृतप्रकाश or प्राकृतमञ्जरी, This वररुचि, who also was कात्यायन by Gotra name, was a grammarian later than Patanjali, who has been associated with Sarvvarman, (the author of the first three Adhyayas of the Katantra Sutras), as the author of the fourth Adhyaya. Patanjali does not associate वररुचि with Kityayana at alI. His mention of वररुचि as a writer of a Kavya is a sufficient testimony for that. Hence, it appears probable that Katyayana, to whom the authorship of the Vajasaneyi Pratisakhya and many other works allied with Veda has been attributed, was not associated with Vararuci by Patanjali, and it is only the later writers who identified the grammarian Vararuci,who composed the fourth Adhyaya of the Katantra Grammar and wrote a Prakrit Grammar and some other grammar' works, with the ancient revered Katyayana, the author of Varttikas, the Vijasaneyi Pratisakhya and the Puspasutra; (3) There was a comparatively modern grammariannamed वररुचि who wrote a small treatise on genders of words consisting of about 125 stanzas with a commentary named Lingavrtti, possibly written by the author himselfeminine. (4) There was also another modern grammarian by name वररुचि who wrote a work on syntax named प्रयोगमुखमण्डन discuss＾ ing the four topics कारक, समास, तद्धित and कृदन्त.

varṇikuberanātha	or वर्णिकुवेरानन्द an old writer on grammar who has written a work named शब्दविवरण on the meanings of words. The work forms a part of his bigger work दानभागवत. Both the works are incomplete. The शब्दविवरण is based mostly upon ancient grammar works of Patanjali Vararuci, Varttikakara, Sarvavarman, Bhartrhari and others.

śarvavarmā	a reputed grammarian who is believed to have been a contemporary of the poet Gunadhya in the court of Satavahana. He wrote the Grammar rules which are named the Katantra Sutras which are mostly based on the Sutras of Panini. In the grammar treatise named 'the Katantra Sutra' written by Sarvavarman the Vedic section and all the intricacies and difficult elements are carefully and scrupulously omitted by him, with a view to making his grammar useful for beginners and students of average intelligence.

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varman	noun (masculine neuter) a bulwark (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) a coat of mail (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) bark (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) defence (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) defensive armour (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) name of particular preservative formulas and prayers (esp. of the mystic syllable hum) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) protection (often at the end of the names of Kṣatriyas) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) rind (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) shelter (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 2677/72933

apahāravarman	noun (masculine) name of a prince Frequency rank 17541/72933

indravarman	noun (masculine) name of a warrior (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 33271/72933

upahāravarman	noun (masculine) name of a man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 23524/72933

kalindavarman	noun (masculine) name of a man Frequency rank 48865/72933

kāñcanavarman	noun (masculine) another name of the king Hiraṇyavarman name of a prince (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 33949/72933

kṛtavarman	noun (masculine) name of a son of Hṛdīka name of a son of Kanaka/Dhanaka name of several princes (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) name of the father of the thirteenth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 2865/72933

ketuvarman	noun (masculine) name of a prince Frequency rank 27651/72933

kṣatravarman	noun (masculine) name of a man Frequency rank 50499/72933

caṇḍavarman	noun (masculine) name of a prince (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 15695/72933

candravarman	noun (masculine) name of a Kāmboja king name of a prince conquered by Samudragupta Frequency rank 34896/72933

citravarman	noun (masculine) name of a king (of the Kulūtas) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) name of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) name of Campāvatī and Mathurā (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 17903/72933

jayavarman	noun (masculine) name of a man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 52722/72933

dāruvarman	noun (masculine) name of a man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 14941/72933

dṛḍhavarman	noun (masculine) name of a king of Prayāg (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) name of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 35807/72933

dharmavarman	noun (masculine neuter) name of a son of Akrūra and Ratnā name of Kṛṣṇa (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 35989/72933

dhṛtavarman	noun (masculine) name of a warrior on the side of the Kurus (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 19481/72933

prahāravarman	noun (masculine) name of a king of Videha Frequency rank 19703/72933

buddhavarman	noun (masculine) name of a merchant Frequency rank 12151/72933

bhogavarman	noun (masculine) name of various men (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 37866/72933

bhūtavarman	noun (masculine) name of a man Frequency rank 60940/72933

mitravarman	noun (masculine) name of a man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 13117/72933

vikaṭavarman	noun (masculine) name of a man Frequency rank 18437/72933

vivarman	adjective deprived of armour (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) having no armour (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 20077/72933

viśālavarman	noun (masculine) name of a man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 39514/72933

viṣṇuvarman	noun (masculine) name of a king (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 39577/72933

satyavarman	noun (masculine) name of a man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 20202/72933

saṃhāravarman	noun (masculine) name of a man Frequency rank 70206/72933

sitavarman	noun (masculine) name of a minister (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 30993/72933

siṃhavarman	noun (masculine) name of a man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 18626/72933

suvarman	noun (masculine) name of a son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 22675/72933

snāyvarman	noun (neuter) a fleshy tumour of the white of the eye (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 41230/72933

sūryavarman	noun (masculine) name of a Dāmara (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) name of a king (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 41286/72933

hiraṇyavarman	noun (masculine) name of a king (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 18691/72933

hemavarman	noun (masculine) another name of king Hiraṇyavarman Frequency rank 41480/72933

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