Gandhakarika, Gandhakārikā, Gandha-karika: 5 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Gandhakārikā (गन्धकारिका).—

1) a female servant whose business is to prepare perfumes.

2) a female artisan living in the house of another, but not altogether subject to another's control.

Gandhakārikā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms gandha and kārikā (कारिका).

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

Gandhakārikā (गन्धकारिका).—f.

(-kā) A female artisan, living in the house of another woman. E. gandha perfume, and kārikā who makes.

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

1) Gandhakārikā (गन्धकारिका):—[=gandha-kārikā] [from gandha-kāraka > gandha] f. = -kārī, [Hemacandra’s Pariśiṣṭaparvan]

2) [v.s. ...] a female artisan living in the house of another woman, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Gandhakārikā (गन्धकारिका):—[gandha-kārikā] (kā) 1. f. A female artisan living in another’s house.

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Gandhakarika 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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