Tamra, Tāmra, Tāmrā: 36 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchTamra (तम्र):—
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Tāmra (ताम्र):—1. [Uṇādisūtra 2, 16.]
1) adj. f. ā dunkelroth, kupferroth [das 3, 7.] [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 352.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 428.] [Medinīkoṣa r. 44.] [VIŚVA] bei [UJJVAL.] tāmra, aruṇa (in [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa] und [Medinīkoṣa] diesem gleichgesetzt) [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 16, 6. 39.] nakhī [Mahābhārata 1, 3295.] śīrṣa (krauñca) [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 2, 15.] locana [2, 34, 13.] [Pañcatantra 220, 1.] tāmrāsya [Mahābhārata 4, 165.] tāmroṣṭha [Kumārasaṃbhava 1, 45.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 23, 41.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 16, 81.] mūrdhaja [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 23, 16.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 14, 44. -] [Indralokāgamana 5, 12.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 58, 22. fg.] [Suśruta 1, 127, 2. 200, 16. 268, 16. 295, 16. 2, 307, 7.] [Śākuntala 69.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 3, 65.] kṛṣṇa [Sūryasiddhānta 6, 23.] f. [Raghuvaṃśa 2, 15.] tāmrā (tvak) heisst die vierte unter den sieben Häuten, die nach [Suśruta] am entstehenden Embryo sich bilden, [1, 326, 7.] Vgl. pratāmra . —
2) m. a) eine Art Aussatz mit kupferrothen Flecken [KARMAVIPĀKA im Śabdakalpadruma] — b) Nomen proprium α) eines Mannes; vgl. tāmrāyaṇa . = β) einer Insel: dvīpaṃ tāmrāhvayam [Mahābhārata 2, 1172]; vgl. tāmradvīpa und [Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde I, 570, Nalopākhyāna 1.] —
3) f. ā a) Name verschiedener Pflanzen: α) = mañjiṣṭhā Rubia Munjista Roxb. [NIGH. PR.] — β) = raktaguñjā Abrus precatorius Lin. [NIGH. PR.] — γ) = saiṃhalī [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] Unter tāmravallī erscheint das Wort im [Śabdakalpadruma] nach ders. Aut. auch als Synonym von dieser Pflanze. — b) Nomen proprium einer Tochter Dakṣa’s, einer der Gemahlinnen Kaśyapa’s und Mutter verschiedener Vögel, [Mahābhārata 1, 2620.] [Harivaṃśa 170. 221. fg.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 20, 12. 18.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 122.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 6, 25. 27.] — c) Nomen proprium eines Flusses [Mahābhārata 3, 12909. 6, 335.] [Viṣṇupurāṇa 183.] —
4) n. a) dunkele Röthe [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] — b) Kupfer [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 352.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1039.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [VIŚVA.] [Kauśika’s Sūtra zum Atuarvaveda 16.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 5, 114. 8, 131. 11, 167.] [Harivaṃśa 16265.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 38, 20. 4, 44, 23.] [Suśruta 1, 228, 1. 2, 67, 9. 336, 17.] [Pañcatantra 241, 11.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 6, 13. 47, 46. 53, 71.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 386.] [Prabodhacandrodaja 22, 18.] [Scholiast] zu [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 1, 3, 12.] tāmralohaiḥ [Mahābhārata 2, 2091.] — c) dunkelrothes Sandelholz [Wilson’s Wörterbuch] mṛṣṭānulepin [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 83, 17.]
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Tāmra (ताम्र):—2. (von 1. tāmra Kupfer)
1) adj. f. ī kupfern [YAMA] bei [Kullūka] zu [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 6, 53.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 21, 17.] [Suśruta 1, 99, 5. 171, 9.] f. [BHAVIṢYOTTARA-Pāṇini’s acht Bücher] in [morgenländischen Gesellschaft 6, 94, 3.] —
2) f. ī ein Gefäss aus Kupfer mit einer Oeffnung im Boden, welches in Wasser gestellt sich allmählich füllt und auf diese Weise zur Messung der Zeit dient (vgl. tāmrapātra), [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 1, 1, 121.]
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Tāmra (ताम्र):—1.
1) ā [Lassen’s Anthologie (II) 90, 4.] —
2) b) α) ein Sohn des Naraka Bhauma [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 10, 59, 12.] — β) Nomen proprium einer Oertlichkeit [Oxforder Handschriften 338,b,36.] —
4) c) der [Scholiast] des [Rāmāyaṇa] : gorocanakuṅkumādisaṃbandhastāmravarṇaṃ mṛṣṭaṃ saṃpūrṇamanulepo nulepanaṃ yeṣāṃ te .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungTamra (तम्र):—Adj. (f. ā) beengend , erstickend oder verdunkelnd.
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Tāmra (ताम्र):—1. —
1) Adj. (f. ā) dunkelroth , kupferroth [294,24.] —
2) m. — a) eine Art Aussatz mit kupferrothen Flecken. — b) Nomen proprium — α) eines Sohnes des Naraka Bhauma. — β) einer Insel. — γ) einer Oertlichkeit. —
3) f. ā (sc. tvac) — a) die vierte unter den 7 Häuten am entstehenden Embryo. — b) *Rubia Munjista. — c) *rother Abrus. — d) *eine Art Pfeffer. — e) * = sūkṣmavallī [Rājan 3,110.] — f) Nomen proprium — α) einer Tochter Dakṣa's. — β) eines Flusses. —
4) n. — a) *dunkle Rothe. — b) Kupfer. — c) ein kupferner Behälter [Mahābhārata 2,61,29.] — d) *dunkelrothes Sandelholz.
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Tāmra (ताम्र):—2. —
1) Adj. (f. ī) kupfern. —
2) f. ī eine Art Wasseruhr.
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Starts with (+155): Tamra-pattaka, Tamra-phali, Tamra-prashasti, Tamra-shasana, Tamra-vallika, Tamrabha, Tamrabhasma, Tamrabhra, Tamrabija, Tamracadaka, Tamracakshu, Tamracakshus, Tamrachadaka, Tamrachuda, Tamrachudi, Tamracuda, Tamracudabhairava, Tamracudaka, Tamracudi, Tamracula.
Ends with (+7): Abhitamra, Araktatamra, Atamra, Atitamra, Bandhujivabhitamra, Cakralatamra, Dhumratamra, Ghoshakrishtratamra, Krishnatamra, Ksharatamra, Ku-tamra, Kunkumatamra, Markatamra, Mishratamra, Natamra, Pallavaragatamra, Paratamra, Paritamra, Pratamra, Raktamra.
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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)
Text 7.76 < [Chapter 7 - Literary Faults]
Text 7.131 < [Chapter 7 - Literary Faults]
Text 11.18 < [Chapter 11 - Additional Ornaments]
List of Mahabharata people and places (by Laxman Burdak)
Historical Elements in the Matsya Purana (by Chaitali Kadia)
Lineages of Kaśyapa < [Chapter 6 - Human history in the Matsya-Purāṇa]
Dynasty of Vṛṣṇi < [Chapter 6 - Human history in the Matsya-Purāṇa]
Prostitution in the Matsya Purāṇa < [Chapter 5 - Cultural history in the Matsya-Purāṇa]
Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari (by K. A. Subramania Iyer)
Verse 3.14.599 < [Book 3 - Pada-kāṇḍa (14): Vṛtti-samuddeśa (On Ccomplex Formation)]
Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 4.19.55 < [Chapter 19 - A Thousand Names of Srī Yamunā]
Verse 2.10.8 < [Chapter 10 - Description of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s Herding the Cows]
Verse 5.13.19 < [Chapter 13 - The Arrival of Sri Uddhava]
The Shiva Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
Chapter 32 - Description of Creation (3): The family of Kaśyapa < [Section 5 - Umā-Saṃhitā]
Chapter 46 - Incarnation of Mahālakṣmī < [Section 5 - Umā-Saṃhitā]
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