Nayaka, Nāyaka: 38 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchNayaka (नयक):—adj. = naye kuśalaḥ in der Politik geschickt gaṇa ākarṣādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 2, 64.]
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Nāyaka (नायक):—(wie eben)
1) m. Führer, Anführer, Chef, Haupt; = netar, agresarika, svāmin, pradhāna, śreṣṭha [Amarakoṣa 3, 1, 11.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 8, 50.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 359.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 57.] [Medinīkoṣa k. 110.] ko māṃ priyamivātithim . bhojayiṣyatyakarmaṇyamapragrahamanāyakam .. [Daśaratha’s Tod 2, 33.] upadrutamidaṃ sarvamanālambamanāyakam [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 48, 22.] sarve suragaṇādayaḥ brahmendratryakṣanāyakāḥ [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 7, 22.] nāyako devamanuṣyāṇām [Hiouen-Thsang I, 347.] sainyasya Heerführer, Befehlshaber einer Heeresabtheilung (auch mit Ergänzung von sainyasya) [Bhagavadgītā 1, 7.] [Mahābhārata 3, 14244. 7, 4875. 8, 2149.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 33, 14. 5, 81, 23. 6, 74, 5.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 32, 29.] [Śatruṃjayamāhātmya 10, 188.] sakalapura [Pañcatantra 26, 12] [?(ed. orn. 23, 6).] sakalavasumatī [morgenländischen Gesellschaft 14, 574, 23.] kṣoṇībhṛtām [Journ. of the Am. Or. S. 6, 506,] [Śloka 22.] kumudinī (der Mond) [Hitopadeśa 9, 5.] rāṣṭraṃ sanāyakam (v. l. sarājakam) [Pañcatantra I, 219.] senāpatiṃ nāyakamantriṇau ca [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 34, 7.] anāyake na vastavyaṃ na vasedbahunāyake . strīnāyake na vastavyaṃ na vasedbālanāyake .. [Spr. 96.] varaṃ hi daivāyattaikabuddhi sthānamanāyakam . na tu viplutasarvārthaṃ vibhinnaṃ bahunāyakam .. [Geschichte des Vidūṣaka 68. 69.] Beiw. Śākyamuni’s [Lot. de Lassen’s Anthologie b. l. 336.] Gebieter so v. a. Gatte [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 25, 20.] nāyikā [Vetālapañcaviṃśati] in [Lassen’s Anthologie 6, 20] scheint eine vornehme Dame zu bezeichnen. nāyaka als Titel vor einem Nom. pr. [Colebrooke II, 289. 291.] [Journ. of the Am. Or. S. 6, 512, 1 v. u. 548, 4.] Am Ende eines adj. comp. f. āḥ anāyakā tathā senā ein Heer ohne Führer [Mahābhārata 7, 143. 9, 221.] [Rāmāyaṇa] [Gorresio 2, 91, 16.] — Statt nāyakaḥ [Pañcatantra 156, 18] hat die v.l. jñāpakaḥ, st. nāyakānāṃ [Mālavikāgnimitra 73.] vaidiśānāṃ . —
2) m. der Held, Liebhaber in einem Stücke [Sāhityadarpana 32, 9. 15. 35, 2.] [Harivaṃśa 8664.] [Śākuntala 15, 12.] ākrāntanāyakā die den Liebhaber beherrscht [Sāhityadarpana 41, 18.] nāyikā f. Heroine [Sāhityadarpana 32, 10. 39, 10.] [Bharata] beim Schol. zu [Śākuntala 9, 6.] [Vetālapañcaviṃśati] in [Lassen’s Anthologie 24, 17.] —
3) m. der Mittelstein in einer Perlenschnur [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 650.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] mahānāyaka doppelsinnig [Vāsavadattā 17, 1.] —
4) Paradigma, Musterbeispiel: rāmo hariḥ karī bhūbhṛdbhānuḥ kartā ca candramāḥ . tasthivānbhagavānātmā daśaite puṃsi nāyakāḥ .. am Anf. einer in Pūṇa unter dem Titel rūpāvali lith. Grammatik. — nāyaka = cirastha (?) [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 1, 8.] —
5) m. Nomen proprium eines Brahmanen [Rājataraṅgiṇī 5, 158.] —
6) nāyikā f. eine Śakti der Durgā, deren 8 aufgeführt werden: ugracaṇḍā, pracaṇḍā, caṇḍogrā, caṇḍanāyikā, aticaṇḍā, cāmuṇḍā, caṇḍā und caṇḍavatī [Oxforder Handschriften 25,b, Nalopākhyāna 5.] — Vgl. a, ku, kula, kośa, gaṇa, graha, daṇḍa, dvāra, nara .
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Nāyaka (नायक):—
1) vaṇiṅnivaha [Kathāsaritsāgara 88, 5.] bhauta so v. a. der Dümmste unter den Dummen [65, 197.] nāyikā so v. a. Geliebte: nākādhipanāyikāḥ so v. a. die Apsaras [Naiṣadhacarita 22, 46.] —
2) [Sāhityadarpana 552.] —
3) [Halāyudha 2, 409.] [Śiśupālavadha 2, 92] (zugleich Feldherr). —
5) vgl. bhaṭṭa .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungNayaka (नयक):—Adj. in der Politik erfahren.
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Nāyaka (नायक):——
1) m. (adj. Comp. f. nāyakā) — a) Führer , Anführer , Leiter , Chef , Haupt. Auch von Göttern gebraucht [Indische studien von Weber 14,369.] Mit und ohne sainyasya Heerführer. — b) Gebieter , so v.a. Gatte. — c) der Held — , der Liebhaber in einem Stücke. — d) der Mittelstein in einer Perlenschnur. — e) Paradigma , Musterbeispiel. — f) Nomen proprium eines Mannes. Auch bhaṭṭa. —
2) f. nāyikā — a) eine vornehme Dame. — b) Geliebte. — c) Heroine. — d) eine Śakti der Durgā.
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Starts with (+15): Nayaka-naraka, Nayakacatushtaya, Nayakacinnam, Nayakacuram, Nayakada, Nayakadhipa, Nayakadvaya, Nayakaggali, Nayakai, Nayakakkantam, Nayakalanidhi, Nayakam, Nayakamani, Nayakamgana, Nayakamisa, Nayakampannu, Nayakamuttu, Nayakappanai, Nayakappatti, Nayakara.
Ends with (+238): Abhayadavinayaka, Abhinirnayaka, Adhinayaka, Adhinirnayaka, Agranayaka, Ahindranayaka, Ajnayaka, Ajyapanayaka, Akrantanayaka, Amaramokhasinayaka, Amaranayaka, Amarenayaka, Amartyanayaka, Amlanayaka, Anayaka, Anirnayaka, Anukulanayaka, Anunayaka, Arikenayaka, Arkavinayaka.
Full-text (+370): Anayaka, Nayaga, Tarkshyanayaka, Nayakadhipa, Nayakavadi, Nakanayaka, Rasanayaka, Cirastha, Grahanayaka, Nayakatva, Cakkiranayakam, Kunayaka, Vekunayakam, Canninayakam, Vyaghranayaka, Nayankara, Dhiroddhata, Naganayaka, Pakunayakam, Kottaruvu.
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The Linga Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
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