Dusaka, Dūsaka, Dūṣaka, Dushaka: 18 definitions

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Dusaka means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit term Dūṣaka can be transliterated into English as Dusaka or Dushaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: archive.org: Sushruta samhita, Volume I

Dūṣaka (दूषक)—Sanskrit word for a bird. Another name for this bird might be laṭṭūṣaka (ladūṣaka or laṭūṣaka). This animal is from the group called Pratuda (which peck). Pratuda itself is a sub-group of the group of animals known as Jāṅghala (living in high ground and in a jungle).

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Shaktism (Shakta philosophy)

Source: Google Books: Manthanabhairavatantram

Dūṣaka (दूषक) refers to “one who maligns”, according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—Accordingly, while describing the signs of one who is not a Siddha: “He is excessively tall, bald, deformed, short, dwarfish, his nose is ugly or he has black teeth and is wrathful . Some of his limbs are missing and is deceitful, cripple and deformed, foolish, inauspicious, envious, deluded, badly behaved, and violent; without any teacher, he is devoid of the rites, he maligns the Krama without cause [i.e., ahetu-krama-dūṣaka], he is not devoted to the Siddhas, he (always) suffers and is without wisdom. He is (always) ill and one should know that he is (always) attached (to worldly objects) and has no scripture. He has no energy and is dull and lazy. Ugly, he lives by cheating and, cruel, he is deluded, and devoid of (any) sense of reality. Such is the characteristic of one who is not accomplished (asiddha) in a past life”.

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Shakta (शाक्त, śākta) or Shaktism (śāktism) represents a tradition of Hinduism where the Goddess (Devi) is revered and worshipped. Shakta literature includes a range of scriptures, including various Agamas and Tantras, although its roots may be traced back to the Vedas.

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Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Wisdom Library: Brihat Samhita by Varahamihira

Dūṣaka (दूषक) refers to “one who is a disgrace (to society)”, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 2), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “[...] A pretentious Jyotiṣaka [i.e., kuhaka] whose knowledge of the science has been picked up from what has occasionally fallen on his ears ought not to be consulted. He who, not having studied the science, passes for a Jyotiṣaka is a sinner and a disgrace to society [i.e., paṅkti-dūṣaka]. He who ridicules the words of a Jyotiṣaka, as well as the person who sneers at the science itself, will suffer miseries in the hell of darkness”.

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

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Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Dusaka in India is the name of a plant defined with Oryza sativa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Oryza sativa var. plena Prain (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Aspects of Plant Sciences (1989)
· Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle d’Autun (1893)
· Indian Forester (1952)
· The Flora of British India (1896)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Kulturpflanze (1981)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

dūsaka : (adj.) one who defiles or defames; corrupting; spoiling.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Dūsaka, (adj.-n.) (Sk. dūṣaka) corrupting, disgracing, one who defiles or defames; a robber, rebel A.V, 71 (bhikkhunī°); J.II, 270; IV, 495; Sn.89 (kula° one who spoils the reputation of the clan); DhA.II, 23 (kuṭi° an incendiary); Miln.20 (pantha°). As dussaka at J.V, 113 (kamma°); SnA. 287 (mitta°, v. l. B. for dūbhaka).—panthadūsaka a highwayman Miln.290.—f. dūsikā J.III, 179 (also as dūsiyā=dosakārikā); harmless Sn.312 (see a°). (Page 328)

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

dūṣaka (दूषक).—a (S) That which blames; or which sullies, stains, defiles, injures.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

dūṣaka (दूषक).—a That which blames; or which sullies, stains.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Dūṣaka (दूषक).—a. (-ṣikā f.) [दुष्-णिच्-ण्वुल् (duṣ-ṇic-ṇvul)]

1) Corrupting, polluting, vitiating, defiling, spoiling; कौ युवां मुनिदूषकौ (kau yuvāṃ munidūṣakau) Rām.3.2.12.

2) Violating, dishonouring, seducing; राज्ञः शासनदूषकैः (rājñaḥ śāsanadūṣakaiḥ) Mṛcchakaṭika 9.41.

3) Offending, trespassing, guilty.

4) Disfiguring.

5) Sinful, wicked (as an action).

6) Irreligious; यः पुरुषाणां हि दूषकः (yaḥ puruṣāṇāṃ hi dūṣakaḥ) Rām.4.38. 26.

-kaḥ 1 A seducer, a corrupter.

2) Any infamous or wicked person.

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Dūṣaka (दूषक).—&c. See under दुष् (duṣ).

See also (synonyms): dūṣaṇa, dūṣya.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dūṣaka (दूषक).—mfn.

(-kaḥ-kā-kaṃ) 1. Ill, low, contemptible, infamous. 2. Spoiling, corrupting, contaminating, who or what does so. E. duṣ to be vile, affixes ṇic and ṇvul .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dūṣaka (दूषक).—i. e. duṣ, [Causal.], + aka, I. adj., f. ṣikā. 1. Defiling, Mahābhārata 12, 1236 (sinful); one who defiles, [Rāmāyaṇa] 2, 75, 38. 2. Disfiguring, [Suśruta] 1, 295, 19. 3. Seducing, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 3, 164; 9, 232 (sowing dissensions, [Kullūka Schol. ed. [Mānavadharmaśāstra]]). 4. Hurting, [Harivaṃśa, (ed. Calc.)] 3206. 5. Trespassing, [Rāmāyaṇa] 4, 37, 13. Ii. f. ṣikā. 1. Concretion on the eyes, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 5, 135. 2. A kind of rice, [Suśruta] 1, 195, 8.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dūṣaka (दूषक).—[feminine] ikā ([genetive] or —°) = [preceding] + corrupting, disgracing, offending; [feminine] dūṣikā also = dūṣī q.v.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Dūṣaka (दूषक):—[from dūṣa > duṣ] mf(ikā)n. corrupting, spoiling, disgracing, seducing, [Manu-smṛti; Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa] etc. (ṣika only, [Divyāvadāna])

2) [v.s. ...] offending, transgressing ([genitive case] or [compound]), [Harivaṃśa 5635; Mṛcchakaṭikā ix, 40]

3) [v.s. ...] sinful, wicked, [Mahābhārata xii, 1236 etc.]

4) [v.s. ...] m. offender, seducer, disparager (vedānām, [Mahābhārata xiii, 1639]; prakṛtīnām, [Manu-smṛti ix, 232])

5) [from dūṣa > duṣ] pencil or paint-brush, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dūṣaka (दूषक):—[(kaḥ-kā-kaṃ) a.] Ill, infamous.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Dūṣaka (दूषक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Dūsaa, Dūsaga.

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Dusaka in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Dūṣaka (ದೂಷಕ):—

1) [adjective] blaming; having the tendency to blame.

2) [adjective] causing pain, trouble, harm, to others; harmful; evil; malicious.

3) [adjective] spoiling; damaging; vandalising.

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Dūṣaka (ದೂಷಕ):—

1) [noun] a man who habitually blames, accuses (another or others).

2) [noun] a harmful, malicious man.

3) [noun] a man who spoils, damages or vandalises; a destroyer; a vandal.

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Dūsaka (ದೂಸಕ):—[noun] = ದೂಷಕ [dushaka]2; 4. a blame; accusation made against.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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