Nartaka: 18 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchNartaka (नर्तक):—[Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 1, 145,] [Scholiast] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 26, 38.]
1) von nart simpl. a) m. Tänzer. = naṭa [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 55.] [Medinīkoṣa k. 107.] = kelaka (kevala in [Medinīkoṣa] wohl nur ein Druckfehler) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] = cāraṇa [Medinīkoṣa] Häufig in Verbindung mit naṭa [Mahābhārata 1, 6940. 6972. 2, 1253. 3, 17364. fg. 13, 2094.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 12, 7. 2, 67, 12.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 16, 20. 42 (43), 26.] [Pañcatantra 43, 3.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 1, 11, 21.] nṛtyapriyo nityanarto nartakaḥ sarvalālasaḥ (śivaḥ) [Mahābhārata 13, 1164.] aśvatthā nartakāścāsan [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 91, 47.] bhrakuṃsaśca bhrukuṃsaśca bhrūkuṃsaśceti nartakaḥ . srīveṣadhārī puruṣaḥ [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 7, 11.] khaṅgadhārādinartaka [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 1, 125.] nartakī f. Tänzerin Schol. zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 1, 145] und [?4, 1, 41. Vopadeva’s Grammatik 26, 38. Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 7, 8. 3, 4, 18, 114. Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha Medinīkoṣa Kapila 3, 69. SĀṂKHYAK. 59. Raghuvaṃśa 19, 14. 19. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 8, 11, 41. Kirātārjunīya 10, 41.] bei Tempeln [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 36. 269.] Vgl. dhūrtanartaka . — b) m. eine Art Rohr (s. poṭagala) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] — c) m. Elephant [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] f. ī Elephantenweibchen [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] — d) m. Pfau [Wilson’s Wörterbuch] angeblich nach [Medinīkoṣa] f. ī Pfauhenne [VIŚVA] bei [Wilson’s Wörterbuch] — e) f. nartakī ein best. Parfum (nalikā) [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma]; vgl. naṭī . —
2) vom caus. von nart a) adj. tanzen machend, in eine tanzende Bewegung versetzend: tarko vicāraḥ saṃdehādbhrūśiroṅgulinartakaḥ [Sāhityadarpana 74, 17.] —
2) m. Tanzlehrer: bhavāmi devyā naradeva nartakaḥ [Mahābhārata 4, 305. 570.]
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Nartaka (नर्तक):—
1) a) [Kathāsaritsāgara 74, 36.] nartakī [?41. Bharata NĀṬYAŚ. 34, 35. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 75, 10. Z. 6] nartaka [Mahābhārata 13, 1164] zieht [Nīlakaṇṭha] zu
2) a). —
3) n. Bez. einer best. mythischen Waffe [Mahābhārata 5, 3491. - Z. 2] vom Ende des Artikels ist b) st.
2) zu lesen.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungNartaka (नर्तक):——
1) tanzen machend , in eine tanzende Bewegung versetzend. —
2) m. — a) Tänzer. — b) *Pfau. — c) *Elephant. — d) *eine Rohrart. — e) Tanzlehrer. —
3) f. ī — a) Tänzerin [253,1.] Nom.abstr. tva n. [Vikramāṅkadevacarita 10,57.] — b) *Pfauhenne. — c) *Elephantenweibchen. — d) *ein best. Parfum [Rājan 12,163.] —
4) n. eine best. mythische Waffe.
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with: Nartakaka, Nartakanirnaya.
Ends with: Anartaka, Dhurtanartaka, Haranartaka, Harinanartaka, Natanartaka, Pratinartaka, Sunartaka.
Full-text (+18): Nartakaka, Harinanartaka, Nartanagara, Nartakika, Nartayitri, Lasaka, Dikshitasamaraja, Dhurtanartaka, Nartakitva, Naccaga, Haranartaka, Prakashika, Shvun, Nartak, Narta, Lamba, Utkuta, Veshya, Shivabhakta, Citrakrit.
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Gati in Theory and Practice (by Dr. Sujatha Mohan)
References to drama, dance and music in Sanskrit literature < [Chapter 1 - Nāṭya]
Technical treatises on Nāṭya (other works) < [Chapter 1 - Nāṭya]
Importance of Gati in Uparūpakas < [Chapter 3 - Application of gati in Dṛśya-kāvyas]
Sanskrit sources of Kerala history (by Suma Parappattoli)
11. Other Dramas describing Kerala history < [Chapter 5 - Sanskrit Dramas and Campus bearing on Kerala History]
Chaitanya Bhagavata (by Bhumipati Dāsa)
Verse 3.7.57 < [Chapter 7 - Pastimes in Śrī Gadādhara’s Garden]
Verse 1.15.147 < [Chapter 15 - Marriage with Śrī Viṣṇupriyā]
Early Chola Temples (by S. R. Balasubrahmanyam)
Temples in Siddhalingamadam < [Chapter II - Temples of Parantaka I’s Time]
Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)
Text 4.60 < [Chapter 4 - First-rate Poetry]
The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 242 - Eighteen Prakṛtis (Castes and Sub-castes) < [Section 1 - Tīrtha-māhātmya]