The Sanskrit term Aśokakarī can be transliterated into English as Asokakari or Ashokakari, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Aśokakarī (अशोककरी) is a friend of Kanakamañjarī, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 71. Accordingly, “... when she [Kanakamañjarī] had consoled her with these words she went and told an intimate friend of hers, named Aśokakarī, her secret object. And with her she waited during three days on the desponding Haṃsāvalī, who agreed with them on the measures to be taken”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Kanakamañjarī, 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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Aśokakarī (अशोककरी):—[=a-śoka-karī] [from aśoka-kara > a-śoka] f. a female name, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

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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: Ashoka, Karin.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing Ashokakari, Ashoka-kari, Aśoka-karī, Asoka-kari, Aśokakarī, Asokakari; (plurals include: Ashokakaris, karis, karīs, Aśokakarīs, Asokakaris). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter LXXI < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]

On the connection of Tantra with Black magic < [Notes]

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