अर्कarkaN. of a plant commonly called हुड्हुडिया.
Derived forms and compounds
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-कान्ता
- Name of a plant commonly called हुड्हुडिया.
- sun's wife.
- sun's shadow.
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-कुण्डतीर्थम् Name of a Tīrtha; Skanda Parasmaipada
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-उपलः
- the sun-stone, heliotrope, girasol.
- a sort of crystal or ruby.
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-आह्वः the swallow wort.
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-इन्दुसंगमः the time of conjunction of the sun and moon (दर्श or अमावास्या).
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-कान्तः
- A class of eleven storeyed buildings; Māna.29.25-34. बन्धुः, बान्धवः Name of Buddha Śākyamuni, meaning सूर्यवंश्यः, Compare शुद्धोदनो नाम नृपोऽर्कबन्धुः Bu. Ch.9.9.
- a lotus (the sun-lotus).
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-वल्लभः
- Name of a plant (बन्धूक; Marâthî दुपारी).
- a lotus.
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-विवाहः marriage with the arka plant (enjoined to be performed before a man marries athird wife, who thus becomes his fourth); चतुर्थादिविवाहार्थं तृतीयोऽर्कं समुद्वहेत् Kāśyapa.
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-वेधः Name of a tree (तालीशपत्र).
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-भम्
- an asterism influenced by the sun.
- the sign Leo. उत्तराफल्गुनीनक्षत्र.
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-भक्ता Equivalent to denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedकान्ता quod vide, which see
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-मण्डलम् disc of the sun.
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-मूलः, -ला Equivalent to denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedपत्रा; विलिखति वसुधामर्कमूलस्य हेतोः Bh.2.1.
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-रेतोजः Revanta, the son of Sūrya.
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-लपणम् Saltpetre.
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-वर्षः a solar year.
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अर्क arka, Adjective
- अर्च्-घञ्-कुत्वम् Uṇ.3.4.. Fit to be worshipped (अर्चनीय). र्कः A ray of light, a flash of lightning (Vedic).
- The sun; आविष्कृतारुणपुरःसर एकतोऽर्कः Ś.4.2.
- Fire. य एवमेतदर्कस्यार्कत्वं वेद Bṛi. Up. 1.2.1.
- A crystal; पुष्पार्ककेतकाभाश्च Rām.2.94.6.
- Copper.
- Sunday.
- Membrum virile. एवा ते शेपः सहसायमर्कोऽङ्गेनाङ्गं संसमकं कृणोतु Av.6.72.1.
- Name of the sun-plant, Calatropis Gigantea (Marâthî रुई), a small tree with medicinal sap and rind; अर्कस्योपरि शिथिलं च्युतमिव नवमल्लिकाकुसुमम् Ś.2.9; यमाश्रित्य न विश्रामं क्षुधार्ता यान्ति सेवकाः । सोऽर्कवन्नृपतिस्त्याज्यः सदापुष्पफलोऽपि सन् Pt.1.51. अर्के चेन्मधु विन्देत ŚB. on MS.
- Name of Indra.
- A sort of religious ceremony.
- Praise, hymn; praising, extolling, song of praise.
- A singer (Vedic in these two senses).
- A learned man.
- An elder brother.
- Food (अर्कम् also).
- Name of Viṣṇu.
- A kind of decoction.
- The seventh day of a month.
- The उत्तरा- फल्गुनी asterism.
- The number 12.
- The sunstone (सूर्यकान्त); मसारगल्वर्कमयैर्विभङ्गैर्विभूषितं हेमनिबद्धचक्रम् Mb.12.46.33. Compare अर्कोऽर्कपर्णे स्फटिके ताम्रे सूर्ये दिवस्पतौ । ज्येष्ठभ्रातरि शुक्लेऽर्कपादपे च पुमान् भवेत् ॥ Nm.
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-अंशः, -कला a digit or 12th part of the sun's disc.
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-अश्मन्
- Masculine
- finding of rays.
- poetical inspiration; finding out hymns; रपत् कविरिन्द्रार्कसातौ Rv.1. 174.7.
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-सोदरः 'brother of the sun', an epithet of Airāvata.
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-हिता Equivalent to denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedकान्ता quod vide, which see
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-क्षेत्रम्
- the field of the sun; the sign Leo, presided over by the sun.
- Name of a holy place in Orissa.
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-ग्रहः The eclipse of the sun; Bṛi. S.
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-ग्रीवः Name of the Sāman.
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-चन्दनः a kind of red sandal (रक्तचन्दन).
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-चिकित्सा Arka's work on medical science.
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-जः epithet of Karṇa, Yama, Sugrīva. (-जौ) the two Aśvins regarded as the physicians of Heaven.
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-तनयः 'a son of the sun', an epithet of Karṇa, Yama, Manu Vaivasvata, Manu Sāvarṇi and Saturn; see अरुणात्मज. (-या) Name of the rivers Yamunā and Tāpti.
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-त्विष् Feminine light of the sun.
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-दिनम्, -वासरः Sunday.
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-दुग्धम् milky sap or exudation of Arka.
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-नन्दनः, -पुत्रः, -सुतः, -सूनुः Name of Saturn, Karṇa or Yama.
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-नयन Adjective one whose eyes are difficult to be gazed at. (-नः) an epithet of Virat Puruṣa.
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-नामन् Masculine the red arka tree.
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-पत्रः, -पर्णः Name of the plant अर्क. (-त्रा) a kind of birthwort (सुनन्दा, अर्कमूला) with wedge-shaped leaves. (-त्रम्, -र्णम्) the leaf of the अर्क plant.
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-पादपः Name of a plant (निम्ब); another tree (आकन्द).
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-पुष्पम् a flower of arka-पुष्पाद्यम् Name of a Sāman. (-ष्पी), -पुष्पिका Name of a plant (कुटुम्बिनी) -पुष्पोत्तरम् Name of a Sāman.
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-प्रकाश Adjective Bright like the sun; Mb.
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-प्रिया
- Name of a plant (जव). व्रतः, तम् a vow performed on माघशुक्लसप्तमी.
- the law or manner of the sun; when a king exacts taxes from his subjects only to add to their material comforts and happiness, just as the sun draws up water during 8 months of the year, only to give it back increased a thousandfold, he is said to follow अर्कव्रत, अष्टौ मासान् यथादित्यस्तोयं हरति रश्मिभिः । तथा हरेत्करं राष्ट्रान्नित्यमर्कव्रतं हि तत् ॥ Ms.9.35; Compare R.1.18 (the point of comparison may also be the imperceptible way in which the sun absorbs water, see Pt.1.221).
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-शोकः Vedic brilliancy of rays.
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-सातिः Feminine