Gunotkarsha, Guṇōtkarṣa, Guṇotkarṣa, Guna-utkarsha: 10 definitions
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Gunotkarsha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. 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.
The Sanskrit terms Guṇōtkarṣa and Guṇotkarṣa can be transliterated into English as Gunotkarsa or Gunotkarsha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Sports, Arts and Entertainment (wordly enjoyments)
Source: archive.org: Syainika Sastra of Rudradeva with English Translation (art)Guṇotkarṣa (गुणोत्कर्ष) refers to “excellent qualities” (produced by hunting), according to the Śyainika-śāstra: a Sanskrit treatise dealing with the divisions and benefits of Hunting and Hawking, written by Rājā Rudradeva (or Candradeva) in possibly the 13th century.—Accordingly, “Hunting on horseback (āśvina) represents one of the eight subdivisions of Hunting (mṛgayā). [...] The practice of hunting on horseback reduces fat, lightens the body, enhances strength and ambition, hardens the muscles, kindles appetite, produces a capacity for enduring hunger, thirst, heat, cold, fatigue, and keeping awake at night, generates a skill in aiming at moving objects, increases energy, and produces a faculty of knowing the movements and minds of animals. These and many such excellences (guṇotkarṣa) are acquired by it for one’s own benefit. [...]”.
This section covers the skills and profiencies of the Kalas (“performing arts”) and Shastras (“sciences”) involving ancient Indian traditions of sports, games, arts, entertainment, love-making and other means of wordly enjoyments. Traditionally these topics were dealt with in Sanskrit treatises explaing the philosophy and the justification of enjoying the pleasures of the senses.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryguṇōtkarṣa (गुणोत्कर्ष).—m S Exuberance of excellencies or superior qualities.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishguṇōtkarṣa (गुणोत्कर्ष).—m Exuberance of excellencies or superior qualities.
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
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryGuṇotkarṣa (गुणोत्कर्ष).—excellence of merit, possession of superior qualities.
Derivable forms: guṇotkarṣaḥ (गुणोत्कर्षः).
Guṇotkarṣa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms guṇa and utkarṣa (उत्कर्ष).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryGuṇotkarṣa (गुणोत्कर्ष).—m.
(-rṣaḥ) Excellence, endowment with superior qualities. E. guṇa and utkarṣa abundance.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryGuṇotkarṣa (गुणोत्कर्ष).—[masculine] superiority of merits.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Guṇotkarṣa (गुणोत्कर्ष):—[from guṇa] m. superiority in merit or in good qualities, [Rāmāyaṇa i, 24, 19; Kāvyādarśa ii, 95]
2) [v.s. ...] extraordinary merits
3) [v.s. ...] a present consisting in a sword, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryGuṇotkarṣa (गुणोत्कर्ष):—[guṇo-tkarṣa] (rṣaḥ) 1. m. Excellence.
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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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