# पंचरात्र (paṃcarātra)

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

पंचरात्र (paṃcarātra) is a Sanskrit word meaning a period of five nights.

- **SLP1:** `paMcarAtra`  **IAST:** paṃcarātra  **Devanagari:** पंचरात्र
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancharatra
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/pancharatra/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** पाञ्चरात्र (pāñcarātra), पञ्चरात्र (pañcarātra)

## Meanings by context

### Other (1 definition)
- a period of five nights  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पंचरात्र (paṃcarātra) [Printed book page 402-23 ] पंचन् - रात्र (paṃcan-rātra) n. a period of five nights. [ ID=20719 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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