The Sanskrit terms Ākarṣikā and Ākarṣika can be transliterated into English as Akarsika or Akarshika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Ākarṣikā (आकर्षिका) is the name of a city over which Putraka flew and decided to descend into it. This story is told in the tale called ‘the founding of the city of Pāṭaliputra’, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 3. Accordingly, Śiva told the three daughters of Bhojika in a dream: “The prince [Putraka ] put on the shoes and flew up in the air, taking with him the staff and the vessel. Then he went a great distance in a short time and saw beneath him a beautiful city named Ākarṣikā and descended into it from the sky.”

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Ākarṣikā, is a famous Sanskrit epic story revolving around prince Naravāhanadatta and his quest to become the emperor of the vidyādharas (celestial beings). The work is said to have been an adaptation of Guṇāḍhya’s Bṛhatkathā consisting of 100,000 verses, which in turn is part of a larger work containing 700,000 verses.

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Ākarṣika (आकर्षिक).—a. (-kī f.) Magnetic, attractive (ākarṣeṇa carati). P.IV.4.9.

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

Ākarṣika (आकर्षिक).—mfn.

(-kaḥ-kī-kaṃ) Magnetic, attractive. E. ākarṣa and ṣṭhal aff.

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

1) Ākarṣikā (आकर्षिका):—[=ā-karṣikā] [from ā-karṣaka > ā-kṛṣ] f. Name of a town, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

2) Ākarṣika (आकर्षिक):—[from ā-kṛṣ] mf(ī)n. = ākarṣeṇa carat, [Pāṇini 4-4, 9.]

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

Ākarṣika (आकर्षिक):—[ā-karṣika] (kaḥ-kā-kaṃ) a. Attraction.

[Sanskrit to German]

Akarshika 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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Partial matches: Karshika, A.

Ends with: Apakarshika, Ardhakarshika, Prakarshika, Tilakarshika, Upakarshika, Vaiprakarshika.

Full-text: Akasaka.

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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter III < [Book I - Kathāpīṭha]

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