The Sanskrit term Kūrmalakṣaṇa can be transliterated into English as Kurmalaksana or Kurmalakshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wisdom Library: Jyotiṣa

Kūrmalakṣaṇa (कूर्मलक्षण) refers to the “signs of turtoises” and is the name of the forty-seventh chapter of the Gārgīyajyotiṣa. It is similar to the 64th chapter of Vārahamihira’s work known as the Bṛhatsaṃhitā. The Gārgīyajyotiṣa is one of the most comprehensive of Garga’s texts and written in the form of a dialogue between Krauṣṭuki (Ṛṣiputra) and Garga discussing astral and other omens, comprising a total of sixty-two chapters (viz., kūrma-lakṣaṇa), known as aṅgas and summarized in the Aṅgasamuddiśa (“enumeration of the divisions”, introductory portion).

Source: Wisdom Library: Brihat Samhita by Varahamihira

Kūrmalakṣaṇa (कूर्मलक्षण) refers to “(knowledge regarding the) features of a tortoise”, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 2), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “A true Astrologer is also one who has thoroughly mastered the Science of Saṃhitā. [...] It also treats of the prediction of events from the flight of the kañjana and from the appearance of various abnormal phenomena, of expiatory ceremonies; of miscellaneous planetary phenomena; of ghṛta-kambala; of the royal sword; of paṭa; of the features of a house cock, [+ kūrma ?], a cow, a sheep, a horse, an elephant, a man and a woman. It also treats of the treatment of women; of moles in the body; of injuries to shoes and clothes; of hairy fans; of walking sticks: of beds and seats; of lamplight; of tooth brush and the like”.

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Kūrmalakṣaṇa (कूर्मलक्षण) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—the eighteenth Pariśiṣṭa of Kātyāyana. Np. V, 146. Peters. 2, 74. Sb. 55.

2) Kūrmalakṣaṇa (कूर्मलक्षण):—add Np. V, 64. read Peters. 2, 174.

3) Kūrmalakṣaṇa (कूर्मलक्षण):—the 18th Pariśiṣṭa of Kātyāyana. Ulwar 177.

4) Kūrmalakṣaṇa (कूर्मलक्षण):—the 18th Pariśiṣṭa of Kātyāyana. Ak 78.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kūrmalakṣaṇa (कूर्मलक्षण):—[=kūrma-lakṣaṇa] [from kūrma] n. Name of [work]

[Sanskrit to German]

Kurmalakshana in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Lakshana, Kurma.

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Brihat Samhita (by N. Chidambaram Iyer)

Chapter 64 - On the features of the Turtle/Tortoise (kūrma-lakṣaṇa)

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