Dhusara, Dhūsara, Dhushara, Dhusa-ara: 24 definitions
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In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Dhūsara (धूसर) refers to the “grayish color” (of certain elephants), according to the 15th century Mātaṅgalīlā composed by Nīlakaṇṭha in 263 Sanskrit verses, dealing with elephantology in ancient India, focusing on the science of management and treatment of elephants.—[Cf. chapter 1, “on the origin of elephants”]: “[...] Deficient in girth and length, his whole body lean, his form has a grayish color (dhūsara-cchāya-kāya), he eats much, responds to slight stimuli (i.e., is highly sensitive), his mind is unstable and he is easily angered, he is river ranging, has large eyes (? is nearsighted) and short tail, he is born in the last (dvāpara) age and in the rainy season, he is violent and has a predominance of bile; thus is described that smallish elephant known as ‘deer’”.
Dhūsara (धूसर) (lit. “one who is is smoky-coloured”) is a synonym (another name) for the Pigeon (Kapota), according to scientific texts such as the Mṛgapakṣiśāstra (Mriga-pakshi-shastra) or “the ancient Indian science of animals and birds” by Hamsadeva, containing the varieties and descriptions of the animals and birds seen in the Sanskrit Epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)
Dhūsarā (धूसरा) is another name for Pāṇḍuraphalī an unidentified medicinal plant, possibly identified with either (1) Potarphalam, (2) Manamande (in Marathi) or (3) Pandurphalare (in Kannada), according to verse 5.130-131 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The fifth chapter (parpaṭādi-varga) of this book enumerates sixty varieties of smaller plants (kṣudra-kṣupa). Together with the names Dhūsarā and Pāṇḍuraphalī, there are a total of six Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.
Unclassified Ayurveda definitions
Dhūsara (धूसर):—[dhūsaraḥ] Ash colour, Grey colour
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.
Shaivism
Dhūsara (धूसर) refers to “dust-colored (powder)” (used for worship), according to the Netratantra of Kṣemarāja: a Śaiva text from the 9th century in which Śiva (Bhairava) teaches Pārvatī topics such as metaphysics, cosmology, and soteriology.—Accordingly, [verse 10.39-45]—“[...] He worships with a mixture of white sandalwood, dust-colored powdered camphor (karpūra-kṣoda-dhūsara), seeds, grain, and sesame, [mixed together] with white sugar [that has been] combined with ghee and milk. All meditation done with effort and volition is the highest, etc. [and] causes one to thrive, etc. If, while [performing the agreed mediation], worshiping with Mṛtyujit [in mind, the king] obtains great peace [mahāśanti] instantly”.
Shaiva (शैव, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.
In Jainism
General definition (in Jainism)
Dhūsara (धूसर) participated in the war between Rāma and Rāvaṇa, on the side of the latter, as mentioned in Svayambhūdeva’s Paumacariu (Padmacarita, Paumacariya or Rāmāyaṇapurāṇa) chapter 57ff. Svayambhū or Svayambhūdeva (8th or 9th century) was a Jain householder who probably lived in Karnataka. His work recounts the popular Rāma story as known from the older work Rāmāyaṇa (written by Vālmīki). Various chapters [mentioning Dhūsara] are dedicated to the humongous battle whose armies (known as akṣauhiṇīs) consisted of millions of soldiers, horses and elephants, etc.
Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
dhūsara : (adj.) dust-coloured; yellowish.
Dhūsara, (adj.) (Sk. dhūsara, Ags. dust=E. dust & dusk, Ger. dust; see dhvaṃsati & dhunoti & cp. Walde, Lat. Wtb. under furo) dust-coloured VvA.335. (Page 343)
dhūsara (ဓူသရ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[dhūsa+ara．．,ṭī.96.dhū+sara．ṇvādi,.158.]
[ဓူသ+အရ။ ဓာန်။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၉၆။ဓူ+သရ။ ဏွာဒိ၊ မောဂ်။၁၅၈။]
[Pali to Burmese]
dhūsara—
(Burmese text): (၁) စဉ်းငယ်ဖြူ-ဖျော့တော့-သောအဆင်း။ (တိ) (၂) စဉ်းငယ်ဖြူ-ဖျော့တော့-သော အဆင်းရှိသော။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The appearance of the white small flower. (2) The appearance that has the white small flower.
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.
Marathi-English dictionary
dhūsara (धूसर).—a S Of a grey or dusky white, smokecolored.
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.
Sanskrit dictionary
Dhūsara (धूसर).—a. [dhū-sara kicca na ṣatvam Tv.]
1) Of a dusty, greyish or dusky-white colour, grey; शशी दिवसधूसरः (śaśī divasadhūsaraḥ) Bhartṛhari 2.56; Kumārasambhava 4.4,46; R.5.42;16.17; Śiśupālavadha 17.41.
-raḥ The gery colour.
2) A donkey.
3) A camel.
4) A pigeon.
5) An oilman.
6) Anything of a grey colour.
Dhūsara (धूसर).—mfn.
(-raḥ-rī-raṃ) Grey, of that colour. m.
(-raḥ) 1. Grey, (the colour,) 2. A jack ass. 3. An oilman. 4. A camel. 5. A pigeon. 6. Any thing of a grey tint. f. (-rī) A female Kinnara or chorister of heaven. E. dhṛ to agitate (the mind,) sara Unadi aff.
Dhūsara (धूसर).—i. e. dhvaṃs + ara, I. adj., f. rā, Gray (like dust), [Raghuvaṃśa, (ed. Stenzler.)] 5, 42. Ii. f. rā, A small shrub, [Varāhamihira's Bṛhajjātaka.] S. 76, 6.
Dhūsara (धूसर).—[adjective] dust-coloured, grey.
1) Dhūṣara (धूषर):—[wrong reading] for next.
2) Dhūsara (धूसर):—mf(ā)n. (√dhvaṃs, or dhvas; cf. dhvasira) dust-coloured, grey, [Kāvya literature; Rājataraṅgiṇī] etc. (-tva, n., [Dhūrtasamāgama])
3) m. grey (the colour), [Horace H. Wilson]
4) an ass, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
5) an oilman, [ib.]
6) a pigeon, [ib.]
7) a [particular] plant, [Varāha-mihira] (sweet vetch, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes])
8) Dhūsarā (धूसरा):—[from dhūsara] f. a kind of shrub, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Dhūsara (धूसर):—(raḥ) 1. m. Grey colour; a jackass; an oilman; a camel; a pigeon. f. Chorister of heaven. a. Grey, of a grey colour.
Dhūsara (धूसर):—(von dhvas; vgl. dhvasira) [Uṇādisūtra 3, 73.] [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 8, 3, 59, Vārttika von Kātyāyana. 1.]
1) adj. f. ā (bestaubt) staubfarbig, grau [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 4, 23.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1393.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 3, 566.] [Medinīkoṣa r. 171.] [Suśruta 2, 335, 20.] śaśī divasadhūsaraḥ [Bhartṛhari 2, 46.] rajo [Raghuvaṃśa 5, 42. 16, 17.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 4, 4. 46. 5, 55.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 53, 13. 44.] [Weber’s Indische Studien 2, 258.] kṣāmavapus [Kathāsaritsāgara 2, 51.] dhūsarāṅga [?14, 39. 21, 40. 73. Rājataraṅgiṇī 2, 88. Scholiast zu Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 15, 9, 6. 19, 3, 2.] fälschlich dhūṣara [Hitopadeśa 81, 15.] atidhūsara [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1327.] pari [Raghuvaṃśa 11, 60.] dūrādhva [Kathāsaritsāgara 2, 33.] nom. abstr. dhūṣaratva n. [Dhūrtasamāgama 72, 11.] [AUFRECHT] betont das Wort auf der letzten Silbe; das Suffix heisst aber saran und ist in diesem Falle kit, so dass der Ton auf die erste Silbe zu setzen wäre, wenn nicht eben aus dem Vorangehendem auch noch cit zu ergänzen ist. Im Vārtt. zu [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 8,3, 59] wird das Suffix sarak genannt (also mit nicht mehr wirkendem na), wonach das Wort zu paroxytoniren wäre. —
2) m. a) Esel [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] — b) Kameel. — c) Taube [Rājanirghaṇṭa] — d) Oelmüller [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 917.] —
3) f. ā Name einer kleinen Staude, = pāṇḍuraphalī [Rājanirghaṇṭa im Śabdakalpadruma] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 76, 6.] —
4) f. ī Nomen proprium einer Kiṃnarī [Medinīkoṣa] — Vgl. uṣṭradhūsarapucchikā, welches wohl richtiger zerlegt worden wäre in uṣṭra dhū + puccha .
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Dhūsara (धूसर):—
1) [Spr. 3520.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 53, 2. 65, 162] (kapila) . [66, 8. 86, 58.]
Dhūsara (धूसर):——
1) Adj. (f. ā) staubfarbig , grau. Nom.abstr. tva n. —
2) m. — a) *Esel [Rājan 19,39.] — b) *Kamel [Rājan 19,21.] — c) *Taube [Rājan 19,106.] — d) *Oelmüller. — e) eine best. Pflanze [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhatsaṃhitā 76,6,] v.l. Kichererbse [Galano's Wörterbuch] —
3) *f. ā ein best. Strauch [Rājan 5,132.] —
4) *f. ī Nomen proprium einer Kiṃnarī.
Dhūsara (धूसर) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Dhūsara.
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
Dhūsara (धूसर) [Also spelled dhusar]:—(a) dusty; dust-coloured.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Dhūsara (धूसर) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Dhūsara.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Dhūsara (ಧೂಸರ):—
1) [adjective] of grey colour.
2) [adjective] of the colour of the blend of white and yellow.
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Dhūsara (ಧೂಸರ):—[noun] the colour between or made by mixing or blending white and black; grey.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Dhūsara (धूसर):—adj. 1. dust-colored; gray; khaki; 2. dusty;
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): Dhusa, Ara.
Starts with (+0): Dhusaracchada, Dhusaracchaya, Dhusarachada, Dhusaraka, Dhusarapatrika, Dhusarapattrika, Dhusharatva, Tucaram, Tucaran.
Full-text (+14): Paridhusara, Dhusaracchada, Rasabhadhusara, Dhusarapattrika, Dhusharatva, Lukhadhusara, Dhusaraka, Dhusarita, Tucaram, Kapiladhusara, Vidhusara, Kramadhusara, Dhusar, Samuddhushara, Ushtradhusarapucchika, Panduraphali, Dhusaracchaya, Kshodadhusara, Dhusarapatrika, Paridhusaratva.
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