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Ashoka has 46 English definitions available.
The Sanskrit terms Aśoka and Aśokā can be transliterated into English as Asoka or Ashoka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Ashok.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchAśoka (अशोक):—(3. a + śoka)
1) adj. f. ā . a) ohne Gluth [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 14, 8, 12, 1] [?= Bṛhadāranyakopaniṣad 5, 10.] — b) ohne Kummer, keinen Kummer empfindend, bereitend [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 1.] [Medinīkoṣa k. 39.] satyanāmā bhavāśoka (s. 2, a) aśokaḥ śokanāśanaḥ [Nalopākhyāna 12, 79.] [NALOD. 3, 33.] aśokā [AŚOKĀV.] in [Burnouf 360.] —
2) m. a) Jonesia Asoka Roxb., ein Baum von mässiger Grösse, zum System der Leguminosen gehörig, mit orangefarbigen später in’s Rothe übergehenden in der Nacht duftenden Blüthen (März — April), dessen Blumenpracht Alles übertreffen soll, was sonst das Pflanzenreich aufweist. [Asiatick Researches 4, 266. 353.] [Flora indica 2, 218.] [Amarakoṣa 2, 4, 2, 45.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 4, 18.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1135.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 1] (macht daraus zwei Bäume: kaṅkelli und vañjula). [Medinīkoṣa k. 39.] [Nalopākhyāna 12, 79.] [Suśruta 1, 138, 8.] taru [Nalopākhyāna 12, 75.] naga [79.] vṛkṣa [80.] [Śākuntala 101, 10.] vanikā [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 71. 3, 62, 32. 6, 7, 9. 112, 53.] aśokān nīlāśokāṃśca [3, 17, 10.] raktāśoka [Meghadūta 76.] Die Berührung des Stammes mit dem Fusse eines schönen Frauenzimmers erzeugt Blüthen [Raghuvaṃśa 8, 61.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 3, 26.] [RATN. 12, 4.] [Scholiast] zu [NALOD. 3, 33.] — b) Nomen proprium ein Minister des Königs Daśaratha [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 7, 3.] ein König [Mahābhārata 1, 2650. 12, 114.] ein König in Pāṭaliputra, der im Buddhismus eine grosse Rolle spielt. Einige Nachrichten setzen ihn 100, andere 200 Jahre nach Buddha's Tode. Dieses beruht auf der Verwechselung zweier Könige desselben Namens. [Burnouf 133. 149. 370. 432. 435. fg.] Ursprung seines Namens [360.] Aśoka, von dem die berühmten Inschriften herstammen, regierte [?263 - 226 v. Chr. Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde II, 274. 213. fgg. Akademische Vorlesungen 254. fg.] aśokāvadāna [Burnouf 358.] aśokavarṇa [462, Nalopākhyāna 2.] Vgl. kālāśoka . —
2) f. kā a) Name einer Arzeneipflanze (aśokarohiṇī, kaṭurohiṇī) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 1.] [Medinīkoṣa k. 39.] — b) Nomen proprium gaṇa śubhrādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 123.] eine Göttin, die dem 10ten Arhant der gegenwärtigen Avasarpiṇī zur Ausrichtung seiner Befehle beigegeben ist, [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 45.] — c) n. a) die Aśoka-Blüthe [Siddhāntakaumudī] zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher.4,3,166.] [Vikramorvaśī.26.] — b) Quecksilber [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 1.] [Medinīkoṣa k. 39.]
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Aśoka (अशोक):—
2) a) n. die Blüthe des Aśoka [Ṛtusaṃhāra 6, 6.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungAśoka (अशोक):——
1) Adj. (f. ā) — a) ohne Gluth. — b) keinen Kummer bereitend [Lalitavistarapurāṇa 178,11.] Dazu Nom.abstr. tva n. [Indische studien von Weber 9,154.] — c) keinen Kummer empfindend. —
2) m. — a) Jonesia_Asoka Roxb. — b) Nomen proprium verschiedener Männer. —
3) *f. ā — a) Helleborus niger L. — b) ein Frauenname undNomen proprium einer Göttin bei den Jaina. —
4) n. — a) Aśoka-Blüthe. — b) *Quecksilber.
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