Varaka, Vāraka, Varāka: 18 definitions

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

Varaka (वरक):—1. (von 1. vara) m. Mantel [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 136.] n. Zeug (dhautādhautasādhāraṇavastra) [Śabdaratnāvalī im Śabdakalpadruma] Zelt (potācchādana?) [Hārāvalī 69.]

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Varaka (वरक):—2. (von 2. var) m.

1) Brautwerber [Śāṅkhāyana’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 1, 6.] —

2) Wunsch: dvitīyaṃ varakaṃ vavre [Mahābhārata 3, 9903.]

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Varaka (वरक):—3. (von 4. vara) m.

1) Phaseolus trilobus [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1173.] eine best. Arzeneipflanze, = parpaṭa [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] [AUSH. 6.] eine wilde Bohnenart [MAD.] in [NIGH. PR.] = śaraparṇikā [SIDDH.] ebend. = rūkṣa (tṛṇadhānyabheda) [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] —

2) Nomen proprium eines Fürsten (Varianten: dhanaka, kanaka) [Viṣṇupurāṇa 417,] [Nalopākhyāna 9.]

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Varāka (वराक):—

1) adj. (f. ī) [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 3, 2, 155.] [Vopadeva’s Grammatik 26, 47. 4, 10.] elend, erbärmlich, jämmerlich, Mitleid erregend (= śocya, śocanīya) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 93.] [Medinīkoṣa k. 129.] [Śabdamālā] (= avara) im [Śabdakalpadruma] von lebenden Wesen gebraucht [Spr. 363. 429. 713. 740. 1527. 2667. 2825.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 25,98. 27,64. 37,60. 45,35. 46,161. 52,361. 53,2. 58,51. 60,117. 74,64. 94,40.] [Rājataraṅgiṇī.2,47.4,116.] [Daśakumāracarita 70,6. 92,13.] [Pañcatantra 30,9] [?(ed. orn. 26,16). 41,4. 5. 16. 81,18. 108,13. morgenländischen Gesellschaft 14,575,2. Oxforder Handschriften 155,b,25. 253,a,19.] das Geld so genannt [Kathāsaritsāgara 28, 10.] —

2) m. a) Beiname Śiva’s [Medinīkoṣa] [Oxforder Handschriften 191,a,5.] — b) Schlacht [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] — c) = mahrattisch pittapāpaḍā (nach [MOLESWORTH] Gardenia latifolia und Fumaria parviflora) [DRAVYAR.] in [NIGH. PR.]

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Vāraka (वारक):—1. (von 1. var) nom. ag. Zurückhalter, Abwehrer [Medinīkoṣa k. 131.] na cāsti tasya vārakaḥ [Mahābhārata 12, 12079. 12110.] a vielleicht keinen Abwehrer habend, ungehemmt [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 49, 17.] — Vgl. kara, mārivyasana, vajra .

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Vāraka (वारक):—2. = 4. vāra 2): vārakeṇa der Reihe nach [Pañcatantra ed. orn. 44, 25.]

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Vāraka (वारक):—3.

1) m. a) ein best. Gang des Pferdes [Medinīkoṣa k. 131.] — b) eine Pferdeart (aśvaviśeṣa) [VIŚVA im Śabdakalpadruma] Pferd [WILSON] nach ders. Aut. —

2) n. a) = kaṣṭasthāna [Hārāvalī 128.] — b) ein best. wohlriechendes Gras [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1158, v. l.] für vālaka . [BRAHMAVAIV-Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 2, 50.]

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Vāraka (वारक):—4. [Mahābhārata 14, 1130] fehlerhaft für cāraka in Bewegung setzend, wie die ed. Bomb. liest; [Kathāsaritsāgara 72, 20] fehlerhaft für vārddhaka Alter.

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