शुकśukaA parrot; आत्मनो मुखदोषेण बध्यन्ते शुकसारिकाः Subhāṣ तुण्डैराताम्रकुटिलैः पक्षैर्हरितकोमलैः । त्रिवर्ण-…
[शुक्-क]
- A parrot; आत्मनो मुखदोषेण बध्यन्ते शुकसारिकाः Subhāṣ तुण्डैराताम्रकुटिलैः पक्षैर्हरितकोमलैः । त्रिवर्ण- राजिभिः कण्ठैरेते मञ्जुगिरः शुकाः ॥ Kāv.2.9.
- The Śirīṣa tree.
- Name of a son of Vyāsa. (He is said to have been born from the seed of Vyāsa. which fell at the sight of the heavenly nymph Ghṛitāchī while roaming over the earth in the form of a female parrot. Śuka was a born philosopher, and by his moral eloquence successfully resisted all the attempts of the nymph Rambhā to win him over to the path of love. He is said to have narrated the Bhāgavata Purāṇa to king Parīkṣit. His name has become proverbial for the most rigid observer of continence.]
Derived forms and compounds
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-कम्
- Cloth, clothes.
- A helmet.
- A turban.
- The end or hem of a garment.
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-अदनः the pomegranate tree.
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-कूटः a garland fixed over two pillars.
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-तरुः, -द्रुमः the Śirīṣa tree.
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-तुण्डः a particular position of hands.
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-तुण्डकम् a kind of cinnabar.
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-देवः Name of Śuka.
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-नास
- Adjective having an aquiline nose.
- (सः) Name of the minister of Tārāpīḍa.
- a particular ornament on a house.
- Name of several plants.
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-नासिका an aquiline nose.
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-पुच्छः sulphur.
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-पुष्पः, -प्रियः the Śirīṣa tree. (-या) the rose-apple.
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-वल्लभः the pomegranate.
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-वाहः an epithet of Cupid.
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-सप्ततिः Name of 7 stories related by a parrot.
