The Sanskrit terms Śīghrōcca and Śīghrocca can be transliterated into English as Sighrocca or Shighrocca, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Shighrochcha.

In Hinduism

Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wikibooks (hi): Sanskrit Technical Terms

Śīghrocca (शीघ्रोच्च).—Apex of fastest motion, śīghra apogee. Note: Śīghra-ucca is a Sanskrit technical term used in ancient Indian sciences such as Astronomy, Mathematics and Geometry.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

śīghrōcca (शीघ्रोच्च).—n m S The lower apsis of a planet's orbit, the perihelion. Opp. to mandōcca the aphelion.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Śīghrocca (शीघ्रोच्च).—conjunction (in astr.).

Derivable forms: śīghroccaḥ (शीघ्रोच्चः).

Śīghrocca is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śīghra and ucca (उच्च).

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

Śīghrocca (शीघ्रोच्च):—[from śīghra] n. ‘apsis of the swiftest motion (of a planet)’, a conjunction, [Sūryasiddhānta [Scholiast or Commentator]] (cf. [Indian Wisdom, by Sir M. Monier-Williams 179]).

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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: Shighra, Ucca.

Starts with: Shighroccakarna, Shighroccamandoccasutra, Shighroccaphala.

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Full-text: Shighroccaphala, Shighrashighrocca, Shighroccakarna, Mandocca, Calakendraphala, Antyaphala, Calakendra, Ucca, Shighrakendra, Kendra, Shighra.

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