Kritaka, Kṛtaka, Krītaka: 13 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Kṛtaka can be transliterated into English as Krtaka or Kritaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchKṛtaka (कृतक):—(von kṛta) [Die Uṇādi-Affixe 2, 38.]
1) adj. zubereitet, künstlich bereitet, künstlich hervorgebracht, künstlich [Yāska’s Nirukta 5, 11.] yadyatkṛtakaṃ tadanityam [morgenländischen Gesellschaft 7, 307, Nalopākhyāna 3.] śabdasya kṛtakatvam [290, Nalopākhyāna 2.] pākyaṃ viḍaṃ ca kṛtake dvayam [Amarakoṣa 2, 9, 42] (wo die Erklärer das Wort als n. und als Synonym von pākya und viḍa künstlich zubereitetes Salz auffassen). koṭiśaśca suvarṇaṃ ca teṣāmakṛtakaṃ tathā . vīthīkṛtamameyātmā prāhiṇot .. [Mahābhārata 1, 7364.] kṛtakaḥ putraḥ = kṛtrimaḥ putraḥ ein künstlicher d. i. adoptirter Sohn [13, 2630. fg.] [Meghadūta 73.] erkünstelt, verstellt, sich verstellend, falsch: etena vidhinā channaḥ kṛtakena [Mahābhārata 4, 60.] akṛtakavidhi (yauvana) [Raghuvaṃśa 18, 51.] kṛtakavacana [Pañcatantra 188, 5. 199, 1. 11.] sakṛtakakopam [Chezy’s Ausgabe des Śākuntala 19, 14.] kṛtakairdūtaiḥ [Mahābhārata 2, 158. 15, 63.] āryarūpasamācāraṃ carantaṃ kṛtake pathi [13, 2607.] kṛtakam adv. verstellter Weise [Śiśupālavadha 9, 83.] —
2) m. Nomen proprium eines Sohnes von Vasudeva [Viṣṇupurāṇa 439.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 24, 47.] von Cyavana (vgl. kṛta, kṛtayajña, kṛtin, kṛmi) [Viṣṇupurāṇa 455.] — Vgl. kṛtrima .
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Krītaka (क्रीतक):—(von krīta, partic. praet. pass. von krī) adj. durch Kauf erworben: krīṇīyādyastvapatyārthaṃ mātāpitroryamantikāt . sa krītakaḥ sutastasya sadṛśo sadṛśo pi vā .. [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 9, 174.] [Pravarādhyāya] in [Weber’s Verzeichniss 59.]
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Kṛtaka (कृतक):—
1) adv. duḥkhita verstellter Weise [Kathāsaritsāgara 58, 30.] kṛtakamabhyadhāt [66, 47.] — Vgl. putra .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungKṛtaka (कृतक):——
1) Adj. — a) zubereitet , künstlich bereitet , — hervorgebracht , künstlich. putra so v.a. ein adoptirter Sohn. Nom.abstr. tva n. — b) erkünstelt , verstellt , sich verstellend , falsch. kṛtakam und kṛtaka Adv. verstellter Weise. —
2) m. Nomen proprium verschiedener Männer. —
3) *n. — a) ein best. Salz ( viḍlavaṇa) [Rājan 6,98.] = = — b) Kupfervitriol [Rājan 13,95.]
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Krītaka (क्रीतक):—Adj. durch Kauf erworben (ein Sohn).
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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Starts with (+18): Kritakaamga, Kritakacala, Kritakadri, Kritakagarbhadharane, Kritakagiri, Kritakagobbara, Kritakala, Kritakalpa, Kritakalpataru, Kritakam, Kritakama, Kritakamale, Kritakananya, Kritakanidre, Kritakapata, Kritakapranaya, Kritakaputra, Kritakara, Kritakareshme, Kritakarin.
Ends with: Akritaka, Alamkritaka, Lavanakritaka, Prakritaka, Putrakritaka, Puttrakritaka.
Full-text: Kayaga, Putrakritaka, Akritaka, Kritakam, Kritakatva, Klitakika, Lavanakritaka, Uparicara, Anyavijaja, Kshu, Sukshma, Antika, Cyavana.
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