1. ಶಂಕರ

    ♪ śankara
      adjective
    1. causing prosperity; auspicious; beneficient; pleasing.

  2. ಶಂಕರ

    ♪ śankara
      noun
    1. the quality of being auspicious, beneficient or pleasing.
    2. Śiva, the most auspicious and benevolent deity.
    3. Śrī Śankarācārya, (788 b.c. to 820 b.c.) the great philosopher and propounder of Advaita system of philosophy.
    4. (pros.) a set of four syllables (some times the initial long one is substituted by two short ones making it five) which can be put in sixteen combinations.

  3. ಶಾಂಕರ

    ♪ śankara
      adjective
    1. relating to Śiva.
    2. relating to, derived from or composed by Śri Śankarācārya or related to his philosophy.

  4. ಶಂಕರಿ

    ♪ śankari
      noun
    1. she who is gracious, benevolent.
    2. Pārvati, wife of Śiva.
    3. a small water jug with a narrow mouth, usu. with a handle and a nozzle.
    4. the tree Acacia suma of Mimosae family.
    5. the plant Rubia cordifolia ( = R. munjista) of Rubiaceae family.

  5. ಶಾಂಕರಿ

    ♪ śankari
      noun
    1. Pārvati, the consort of Śiva.