अशोकaśokaa.Without sorrow, not feeling or causing sorrow.
Without sorrow, not feeling or causing sorrow.
Derived forms and compounds
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- Name of a tree having red flowers (Jonesia Asoka Roxb.); [said, according to the convention of poets, to put forth flowers when struck by ladies with the foot decked with jingling anklets and painted with lack-dye. Kālidāsa mentions the flowering of this tree in Spring (Compare Rs.6.5,16). The painted foot bears a striking resemblance in colour to the flowers of Asoka (Compare R.8.63). Compare असूत सद्यः कुसुमान्यशोकः... पादेन नापैक्षत सुन्दरीणां संपर्कमाशिञ्जितनूपुरेण Ku.3.26; Me.8; R.8.62; M.3.12.17; also पादाघातादशोकस्तिलककुरबकौ वीक्षणालिङ्गनाभ्याम् । स्त्रीणा स्पर्शात् प्रियङ्गुर्विकसति बकुलः सीधुगण्डूषसेकात् । मन्दारो नर्मवाक्यात् पटु- मृदुहसनाच्चम्पको वक्त्रवातात् चूतो गीतान्नमेरुर्विकसति च पुरो नर्तनात्- कर्णिकारः ॥]
- Name of Viṣṇu.
- Name of a minister of king Dasaratha. (Vartious reading for अकोप. Rām.1.7.3).
- Name of a celebrated king of the Maurya dynasty, said to have reigned from 234-198 B. C.
- Name of the बकुल. tree अशोको व़ञ्जुले माने द्रुमनिःशोकयोर्मतः । वर्तते कटुरोहिण्याम्... Nm.
- Joy, happiness; अशोकजैः प्रीतिमयैः कपिमालिङ्गय संभ्रमात् । सिषेच भरतः श्रीमान्विपुलैरश्रुबिन्दुभिः ॥ Rām.6.125.42.
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-का
- Name of a medical plant (कटुक; Marâthî कुटकी).
- The sixth day in the first half of Chaitra.
- One of the female domestic deities of the Jainas.
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-कम्
- Quicksilver.
- The blossom of the Asoka plant (forming one of the five arrows of Cupid).
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-अरिः the कदम्ब tree (Marâthî कळंब).
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-अष्टमी नास्ति शोको यस्याः कर्मdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied स. the eighth day in the first half of Chaitra.
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-तरुः, -नगः, -वृक्षः the Asoka tree.
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-तीर्थम् a holy place named Aśoka near Benares.
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-त्रिरात्रः, -त्रम् Name of a festival or व्रत which lasts for three nights; B. Parasmaipada (उत्तरपर्व) अस्त्यशोकत्रिरात्राख्यं व्रतं शोकभयापहम् । त्रिरात्रं तच्च कर्तव्यं व्रतं शोकविनाशनम् ॥.
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-पूर्णिमा Name of a certain holiday, a ceremony to be observed on the 15th day of the month of Phālguna.
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-मञ्जरी Name of a metre.
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-रोहिणी Name of a medical plant (कटुका).
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-वनिका a grove of Aśoka trees; प्रविवेश महाबाहुरशोकवनिकां तदा Rām.7.42.1. denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedन्याय see under न्याय.
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-षष्ठी Name of a certain holiday; चैत्रे मास्य- सिते पक्षे षष्ठयां षष्ठीं प्रपूजयेत् । सुखाय पुत्रलाभाय शुक्लपक्षे तथैव च ॥.
