# छिन्नमस्ता (chinnamastā)

Canonical page: https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/chhinnamasta

छिन्नमस्ता (chinnamastā) is a Sanskrit word meaning cut off at the neck.

- **SLP1:** `CinnamastA`  **IAST:** chinnamastā  **Devanagari:** छिन्नमस्ता
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhinnamasta
- **Declensions:** 24 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/chhinnamasta/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** छिन्नमस्त (chinnamasta)

## Meanings by context

### Other (1 definition)
- cut off at the neck  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 406,3] छिन्न (chinna) — मस्ता (—mastā) f. = ° स्तक (°staka), Tantrasāra (Title) iv; Mantramahodadhi (Title) vi. [ ID=75996 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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