The Sanskrit term Sapiśāca can be transliterated into English as Sapisaca or Sapishaca, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Sapishacha.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Sapiśāca (सपिशाच).—adj. together with Piśācas, [Rāmāyaṇa] 3, 53, 3.

Sapiśāca is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sa and piśāca (पिशाच).

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

Sapiśāca (सपिशाच):—[=sa-piśāca] [from sa > sa-pakṣa] mf(ā)n. connected with or proceeding from Piśācas (as a storm), [Pāṇini 6-3, 80 [Scholiast or Commentator]]

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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: Pishaca, Sha, Ca.

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