Shudra, Sudra, Śūdra, Śūdrā: 30 definitions

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Shudra has 30 English definitions available.

The Sanskrit terms Śūdra and Śūdrā can be transliterated into English as Sudra or Shudra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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

Śūdra (शूद्र):—[Uṇādisūtra 2, 19.]

1) m. a) ein Mann der vierten, dienenden Kaste [Amarakoṣa 2, 10, 1.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 10, 1.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 894.] [Halāyudha 2, 237. fg. 431.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 10, 4. fgg.] [MUIR, Stenzler] pa.bhyāṃ śū.ro ajāyata [Ṛgveda 10, 90, 12.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 1, 31.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 20, 31.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 44.] yaśca śū.ra u.āryaḥ [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 4, 20, 4. 19, 32, 8. 62, 1.] śū.rā.yau [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 14, 30.] śūdrāryam gaṇa rājadantādi zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 2, 31.] brāhmaṇa, rājan, viśya, śūdra [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 18, 48. 26, 2. 20, 17. 30, 5.] [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 7, 17.] śūdrakalpaḥ . anyasya preṣyaḥ kāmotthāpyo yathākāmavadhyaḥ [29.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 2, 5, 10, 1. 3, 2, 6, 2. 5, 7, 6, 4. 7, 1, 1, 6.] a.u.yaḥ (varṇaḥ) śū.raḥ [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa 1, 2, 6, 7. 3, 2, 3, 9. 3, 11, 2.] [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 1, 1, 4, 12. 3, 1, 1, 10. 5, 5, 4, 9.] [Kāṭhaka-Recension 34, 5.] [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 1, 5. 6, 7, 4. 22, 1, 10.] [LĀTY. 3, 3, 16.] der Esel wird angeredet śūdro si śūdrajanmā [Pāraskara’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 3, 15.] — (kārayet) dāsyaṃ śūdraṃ dvijanmanām [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 410. 413. fg.] (viprāṇām) śuśrūṣaiva tu śūdrasya dharmo naiḥśreyasaḥ paraḥ [9, 334. 1, 91.] [Mahābhārata 13, 310.] [Spr. (II) 2457.] tapaḥ śūdrasya sevanam [4506.] śūdrāṇāmeva janmataḥ (jyaiṣṭhyam) [(I) 5014. (II) 2456. 4388. 4390.] sa śūdravadbahiṣkāryaḥ sarvasmāddvijakarmaṇaḥ [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 103.] śūdramārogyameva (pṛcchet) [127.] (nāmadheyaṃ syāt) śūdrasya tu jugupsitam 31. praiṣyasaṃyutam [32.] nahi tasyāsti kiṃcitsvaṃ bhartṛhāryadhano hi saḥ (śūdraḥ) [8, 417.] śaktenāpi hi śūdreṇa na kāryo dhanasaṃcayaḥ . śūdro hi dhanamāsādya brāhmaṇāneva bādhate .. [10, 129.] śūdrāṇāṃ tu (pitaraḥ) sukālinaḥ [3, 197.] śūdrāṇāṃ gaṇanāyakaḥ (daivatam) [WILSON, Sel. Works 1, 2.] śūdramapi kulaguṇasaṃpannaṃ mantravarjamanupanītamadhyāpayedityeke [Suśruta 1, 7, 4.] [Bhagavadgītā 9, 32.] [Mahābhārata 1, 6158.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 96. 6, 16.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 5, 29. 32. 56. 9, 13. 12, 18.] jana [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 4, 99.] rāṣṭraṃ bhūyiṣṭham [8, 22.] yoni [Mahābhārata 1, 4215.] kanyā [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 10, 8. 9.] [WILSON, Sel. Works 1, 258.] śiṣya [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 156.] rājya [4, 61.] vṛtti [10, 98.] śūdrānna [4,218.] [WEBER, KṚṢṆAJ. 224.] [Oxforder Handschriften 281,b,27.] śāsana [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 2, 2, 1.] [Hārāvalī 175.] saṃsparśa [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 5, 104.] sevana [11, 69.] yājaka [3,178.] [Oxforder Handschriften 282,b,7.] ghna [PAÑCAR. 1, 10, 77.] han [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 11, 130.] hatyā [131. 140.] viṭśūdrau [3, 23.] vaiśyaśūdrau [24. 110. 112.] kṣatraśūdravapus [10, 9.] kṣatraviṭśūdrayonayaḥ [8, 62. 9, 229.] strīśūdradambhana [4, 198. 11, 152.] [WEBER, KṚṢṆAJ. 288.] strīśūdraviṭkṣatravadha [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 11, 66.] viṭkṣatraviprāṇām [8, 104.] — b) pl. Nomen proprium eines Volkes: śūdrābhīragaṇāḥ [Mahābhārata 2, 1192. 1869. 6, 375] [?(Viṣṇupurāṇa 195). 9, 2119. Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 14, 18. 16, 31. Viṣṇupurāṇa 481. Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 57, 36. Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde 1, 799. 2, 548.] — c) Nomen proprium eines Brahmanen [TĀRAN. 5. 59.] —

2) f. ā a) ein Weib der vierten Kaste [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 4, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 1.] [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 1, 13. 3, 4, 27, 212.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 524.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 5, 22, 7.] [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 23, 30.] na śūdrāmupeyāt [GOBH. 3, 2, 42.] [Pāraskara’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 1, 4.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 13. fg. 17. 44, 8, 383. 385. 9, 178. 10, 18. 64.] [Mahābhārata 1, 4216. 2, 1829. 12, 6372.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 63, 48.] putra [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa 14, 6, 6.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 9, 154. fg.] suta [151. 153.] vedin [3, 16.] viśoḥ [Amarakoṣa 2, 10, 2.] — b) Nomen proprium einer Tochter Raudrāśva’s [Harivaṃśa 1661.] —

3) f. ī ein Weib der vierten Kaste [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 91.] vaiśyaśūdryoḥ ebend. [Scholiast] zu [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 18, 6, 27.] die Frau eines Śūdra [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 4, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 2.] [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 1, 13.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 523.] — Vgl. mahā, viṭśūdra, śaudra, śaudrāyaṇa .

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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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