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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: The Structure and Meanings of the Heruka Maṇḍala

Jalakāka (जलकाक) is the name of a Vīra (hero) who, together with the Ḍākinī named Jalakākī forms one of the 36 pairs situated in the Vāyucakra, according to the 10th century Ḍākārṇava chapter 15. Accordingly, the vāyucakra refers to one of the three divisions of the dharma-puṭa (‘dharma layer’), situated in the Herukamaṇḍala. The 36 pairs of Ḍākinīs and Vīras [viz., Jalakāka] are dark blue in color; they each have one face and four arms; they hold a skull bowl, a skull staff, a small drum, and a knife.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Jalakāka (जलकाक).—the diver-bird.

Derivable forms: jalakākaḥ (जलकाकः).

Jalakāka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms jala and kāka (काक).

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

Jalakāka (जलकाक).—m.

(-kaḥ) The diver. E. jala, and kāka a crow; the water-crow. jale kākaḥ iva kṛṣṇatvāt . (pānkauḍi).

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

Jalakāka (जलकाक):—[=jala-kāka] [from jala] m. ‘water-crow’, the diver bird, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Jalakāka (जलकाक):—[jala-kāka] (kaḥ) 1. m. A bird, the diver.

[Sanskrit to German]

Jalakaka 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Jalakāka (ಜಲಕಾಕ):—[noun] the diver bird, water crow.

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Jaḷakāka (ಜಳಕಾಕ):—[noun] the diver bird, water crow.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Kaka, Jala.

Full-text: Jalavayasa, Jalakaki, Madgu, Plava, Vayucakra.

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