Shikara, Śīkarā, Śīkara, Sīkara, Sikāra: 17 definitions

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Shikara has 16 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit terms Śīkarā and Śīkara can be transliterated into English as Sikara or Shikara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Shikar.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Śīkara (शीकर):—(von śīk) [UJJVAL.] zu [Uṇādisūtra 3, 131.] m. n. gaṇa ardharcādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 4, 31.]

1) m. (gewöhnlich pl.) feiner Regen, herabfallende Tropfen [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 2, 13.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 165.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 613.] [Medinīkoṣa r. 230.] [Halāyudha 1, 59.] varṣin (megha) [Harivaṃśa 3802. fg. 3915.] [Spr. (II) 666.] [Śākuntala 166.] [Mālavikāgnimitra 44.] [Kirātārjunīya 5, 15.] śīkarāmbhas [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 21, 37.] śīkarārdrairmarudbhiḥ [Raghuvaṃśa 5, 42.] [Spr. (II) 1067.] bhāgīrathīnirjharaśīkarāṇām [Kumārasaṃbhava 1, 15.] [MĀLATĪM. 147, 14.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 226.] [Raghuvaṃśa 16, 62.] pakṣaiḥ sajalaśīkaraiḥ [Rāmāyaṇa 4, 51, 38.] śīkarāmbu [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 15, 38.] amṛtasya (sg.) [Chandomañjarī 47.] satuṣāra (vanānila) [Raghuvaṃśa 9, 68.] avaśyāya [Kathāsaritsāgara 98, 11.] prāleya [Spr. 3349.] hima [(II) 2053, v. l.] agrahastasumuktena śīkareṇa sa nāgarāṭ . samaukṣata (so ed. Bomb.) guḍākeśaṃ śailaṃ nīlamivāmbudaḥ (nīla ivā?) [Mahābhārata 14, 2201. 6, 4389] (nach der Lesart der ed. Bomb.). [KĀM. NĪTIS. 15, 10.] [Ṛtusaṃhāra 1, 15. 2, 1] (saśīkarāmbhodhara zu lesen). [Raghuvaṃśa 7, 45.] [Kirātārjunīya 16, 9.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 94, 13.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 1, 2. 109, 1. 124, 221.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 66, 27.] [NĀGĀN. 19.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 8, 2, 25.] kariṇāṃ madaśīkaraiḥ [9, 11, 26.] [KĀM. NĪTIS. 16, 28.] harṣabāṣpāmbuśīkarāḥ [Kathāsaritsāgara 18, 17. 369.] bāṣpaśīkaravarṣin [Kumārasaṃbhava 2, 42.] svedāmbhasaḥ śīkaraiḥ [Spr. (II) 1035.] śrama [Gītagovinda 12, 22.] Wird bisweilen (auch in den Bomb. Ausgg.) sīkara geschrieben. —

2) n. = śarala (sarala) [Medinīkoṣa] — Vgl. kara (auch [Raghuvaṃśa 7, 45]).

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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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