Brahmanaka, Brāhmaṇaka: 6 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Brāhmaṇaka (ब्राह्मणक).—

1) A bad or unworthy Brāhmaṇa (only in name); एवं युक्तो ब्राह्मणः स्यादन्यो ब्राह्मणको भवेत् (evaṃ yukto brāhmaṇaḥ syādanyo brāhmaṇako bhavet) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 12.27. 27.

2) A family of such a Brāhmaṇa.

3) Name of a country inhabited by warlike Brāhmaṇas.

Derivable forms: brāhmaṇakaḥ (ब्राह्मणकः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Brāhmaṇaka (ब्राह्मणक).—adj. and subst., (1) adj., f. °ikā, of brahmans, brahmanic: °keṣu deveṣu Mahāvastu i.231.18, (ortho- dox) brahmanical gods; °ṇikāyām īryāyāṃ Divyāvadāna 485.6; °ṇakān mantrān (vācayati, various forms) Divyāvadāna 60.26; 487.2; 621.19; (2) subst., = brāhmaṇa, brahman: māga- dhakānāṃ °ṇakānāṃ Mahāvastu i.261.17 (prose; -ka svārthe); perhaps dim., young brahman, Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.46.15 (see s.v. gaṇa- vācaka), but probably adj., to (1); at end of [bahuvrīhi] cpds., f. °ikā, saśramaṇa-brāhmaṇikāḥ prajāḥ Mahāvyutpatti 6425, and other case-forms of this same [compound] Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 21.8; 64.9; Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 9.18; Sukhāvatīvyūha 25.7, etc.

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

Brāhmaṇaka (ब्राह्मणक).—[masculine] a bad Brahman, a Brahman only by name.

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

1) Brāhmaṇaka (ब्राह्मणक):—[from brahman] m. a bad Brāhman, a Br° only by name, [Mahābhārata]

2) [v.s. ...] a country inhabited by warlike Br°, [Pāṇini 5-2, 71] (kīya mfn., [iv, 2, 104 [vArttika] 30; Patañjali])

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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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