Sanskrit word senses marked with place category "Asia"
Parent categories: Earth, Eurasia, Nature
Subcategories: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Countries in Asia, India, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Regions of Asia
Total 23 word senses
- अजर्बैजान (Proper name) Azerbaijan (a country in the South Caucasus, Asia and Europe)
- इन्द्रपुर (Noun) Indore (a city in Madhya Pradesh, India)
- उत्कल (Noun) a fowler, bird-catcher
- कलिङ्ग (Noun) name of a people and their country (the name is applied in the पुराणs to several places, but especially signifies a district on the Coromandel Coast, extending from below Cuttack (कटक) to the vicinity of Madras (मद्रास)
- कामाक्षी (Proper name) Name of Hindu goddess, a form of Durga.
- कामाक्षी (Proper name) Name of a district sacred to Durga in Assam.
- कामाक्षी (Proper name) a female given name
- गया (Proper name) Gaya (historical and modern city in India)
- जापान (Proper name) Japan (a country in East Asia)
- नेपाल (Proper name) Nepal (a country in South Asia, located between China and India)
- पञ्चनद (Proper name) Punjab (a geographical region of South Asia, divided (by the Radcliffe Line) between India and Pakistan. Pakistani Punjab includes the (West) Punjab Province and parts of the Islamabad Capital Territory; Indian Punjab includes (East) Punjab State and some other territories.)
- पाटलिपुत्र (Proper name) Pataliputra (the ancient capital of the Magadha kingdom; modern Patna)
- बाङ्गलादेश (Proper name) Bangladesh (a country in South Asia)
- ब्रह्मदेश (Proper name) Myanmar, Burma (a country in Southeast Asia)
- भोट (Noun) Tibet
- भोटान्त (Proper name) The country of Bhutan
- भोटान्त (Proper name) at the end of Tibet.
- मगध (Proper name) name of a country in ancient India, in southern Bihar
- महाराष्ट्र (Proper name) Maharashtra (a state in western India; capital: Mumbai)
- मिथिला (Noun) Mithila, a city said to have been founded by मिथि or मिथिल (it was the capital of विदेह or the modern Tirhut, and residence of King जनक)
- शृङ्गेरि (Proper name) Sringeri: Name of a hill and town in Mysore, India.
- सिंहपुर (Proper name) Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony)
- हिमालय (Proper name) Himalaya, the personified range, husband of Menaka and father of Parvati (wife of Shiva) and Ganga (the personified Ganges)
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