Araka, Ara-ka, Ārakā: 16 definitions
Introduction:
Araka means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Hindi, 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.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Agriculture (Krishi) and Vrikshayurveda (study of Plant life)
Araka (अरक) refers to the “wheel-axle” type of of the Śākhā (“branch”) part of plants, representing a technical term related to the morphology branch of “plant science”, which ultimately involves the study of life history of plants, including its origin and development, their external and internal structures and the relation of the members of the plant body with one another.—The branching of the stem is distinguished as śākhā, anuśākhā and pratiśākhā. The stem or the kāṇḍa which does not branch is known as sthāṇu or śaṅku. By nature, branches of plants develop from trunks. Generally the branches come out of leaf axils. In some plants, branches form at alternative sites (pṛthak-śreṇyā). In other cases they develop at opposite sites. Then again they develop in the fashion of wheel axles (araka-saṃsthāna). Sometimes, their arrangement is quite irregular; they develop here and there on the trunk. They are termed therefore according to the positions from which they originate.
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.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
The Bodhisatta, born as a brahmin teacher. His story is told in the Araka Jataka. He is referred to also in the Dhammaddhaja Jataka (J.ii.195), where the Bodhisatta relates how, as Araka, he had developed thoughts of loving kindness and practised the brahmavihara for seven years and then was born in the Brahma world.
His name appears again in the Anguttara Nikaya (A.iv.136-8) in a list of teachers, and we are told that among Arakas pupils those who followed his teachings were born in the Brahma world, while the others were born in various purgatories. In the Anguttara context no special mention is made of his having taught the brahma viharas.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Biology (plants and animals)
Araka in Madagascar is the name of a plant defined with Dupuya haraka in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Lasiodiscus pervillei Baill., Rhamnaceae (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Novon (2005)
· Adansonia (1968)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Araka, for example side effects, chemical composition, health benefits, diet and recipes, pregnancy safety, extract dosage, have a look at these references.
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.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
ārakā : (ind.) away from; far off.
Ārakā, (adv.) (Sk. ārāt & ārakāt, Abl. form. fr. *āraka, see ārā2) far off, far from, away from, also used as prep. c. Abl. and as adj. pl. keeping away from, removed, far Vin. II, 239 = A. IV, 202 (saṅghamhā); D. I, 99, 102 (adj.) 167; M. I, 280 (adj.) S. II, 99; IV, 43 sq. ; A. I, 281; It. 91; J. I, 272; III, 525; V, 451; Miln. 243; VvA. 72, 73 (adj. + viratā). (Page 106)
1) araka (အရက) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[yādicchaka]
[ယာဒိစ္ဆကနာမ်]
2) āraka (အာရက) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[ārā+ka]
[အာရာ+က]
3) ārakā (အာရကာ) [(bya) (ဗျ)]—
[Pali to Burmese]
1) araka—
(Burmese text): အရက-အမည်ရှိသော ဘုရားအလောင်းဆရာရသေ့။ အရကဇာတက,အရကသုတ္တ-တို့လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): The statue of the revered teacher, Arahant, is known as "Arahant." Also, take note of Arahant Jataka and Arahant Dutta.
2) āraka—
(Burmese text): ဝေးသော၊ ဝေးကွာသော၊ ကင်းဝေးသော။
(Auto-Translation): Distant, far away, remote.
3) ārakā—
(Burmese text):
(၁) ဝေးကွာသော၊ အဝေး၊ ဝေးသောအရပ်၊ အဝေး၌၊ အဝေးက၊ အဝေးမှ၊ ဝေးစွာ။ (၂) အနီး၊ နီးသော၊ နီးကပ်သော။ အရဟံ-(၁-ဂ)-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Distant, far, in a distant place, from afar, from a distance, far away. (2) Close, near, nearby. See also Arahanta-(1-g)-look.
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.
Sanskrit dictionary
Araka (अरक).—A spoke of a wheel. न नाभिभङ्गे ह्यरका वहन्ति (na nābhibhaṅge hyarakā vahanti) Pt.
Derivable forms: arakaḥ (अरकः).
Araka (अरक).—m.
(-kaḥ) An aquatic plant, (Vallisneria.) See śaibāla. E. ara what goes, and vun aff.
1) Araka (अरक):—[from ara] m. the spoke of a wheel, [Suśruta]
2) [v.s. ...] the Jaina division of time called ara, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.], the plant Blyxa Octandra
3) [v.s. ...] another plant, Gardenia Enneandra.
Araka (अरक):—(kaḥ) 1. m. An aquatic plant.
Araka (अरक):—(von 1. ara) m.
1) Radspeiche [Suśruta 1, 354, 7.] —
2) = 1. ara [2.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 133.] —
3) Blyxa octandra Rich. [Hārāvalī 106. S.] śaivāla . —
4) eine an dere Pflanze, Gardenia enneandra Koen., = parpaṭa [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma]
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Araka (अरक):—
1) [Spr. (II) 5349.]
Araka (अरक):—m. —
1) = ^1. ara 1). —
2) = ^1. ara 2). —
3) *Blyxa_octandra Rich. und Gardenia_enneandra Koen.
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.
Hindi dictionary
Araka (अरक) [Also spelled arak]:—(nm) see [arka].
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Kannada-English dictionary
Araka (ಅರಕ):—
1) [noun] the process of first heating a mixture to separate the more volatile from the less volatile parts, and then cooling and condensing the resulting vapour so as to produce a more nearly pure or refined substance; distillation.
2) [noun] a product of distillation; the liquid obtained by distilling, esp. any strong alcoholic drink distilled from rice, molasses or coconut milk.
3) [noun] the essence of anything.
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Araka (ಅರಕ):—[noun] the act or process of being digested .
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Araka (ಅರಕ):—[noun] the act or process of washing rice in water before being cooked.
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Āraka (ಆರಕ):—[noun] (masc.) one who protects, saves; a protector.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Araka (अरक):—n. 1. sap; juice; 2. distilled extract; essence; distillation;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Ka, Ara.
Starts with (+15): Ara-kalavali, Ara-kalavelvi, Araka Jataka, Araka Sutta, Araka-jhara, Arakacam, Arakacappuntu, Arakacca, Arakakilesa, Arakala, Arakalapura, Arakali, Arakam, Arakamcatti, Arakan, Arakanacatti, Arakani, Arakanike, Arakantaka, Arakanti.
Full-text (+34): Arakatta, Arakata, Arakakilesa, Araka Jataka, Araka Sutta, Kalingara, Arakapanditakala, Arak, Avasarpini, Ara-ka-zad, Utsarpini, Araka-jhara, Arakha, Byappita, Arq, Utara-araka, Vrindara, Arakatattuvam, Arakappilappi, Arka.
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Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)
Appendix 6.2: new and rare words < [Appendices]
Atharvaveda and Charaka Samhita (by Laxmi Maji)
Rasaratnākara (Āyurveda book) < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 67 < [Tamil-Hindi-English, Volume 1]
Page 778 < [Hindi-Assamese-English Volume 1]
Page 260 < [Bengali-Hindi-English, Volume 1]
Tirumantiram by Tirumular (English translation)
Verse 2190: Devolutes of Paraparam < [Tantra Eight (ettam tantiram) (verses 2122-2648)]
Verse 2191: Jiva Ascends These Devolutes to Reach Paraparam < [Tantra Eight (ettam tantiram) (verses 2122-2648)]
Verse 2579: The Five Lights in the Body in Yoga < [Tantra Eight (ettam tantiram) (verses 2122-2648)]
Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Part 3 - Why is the Buddha called Arhat < [Chapter IV - Explanation of the Word Bhagavat]
Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)
Jataka 169: Araka-jātaka < [Book II - Dukanipāta]
Jataka 220: Dhammaddhaja-jātaka < [Book II - Dukanipāta]