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Kavya (poetry)

Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of Sriharsa

Jāṅgulika (जाङ्गुलिक) refers to a “snake-charmer”, and is mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 12.96.

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

jāṅgulika (जांगुलिक).—m S A snake-doctor; a bite-charmer; a dealer in nostrums and antidotes.

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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 dictionary

Jāṅgulika (जाङ्गुलिक).—A snake-doctor, a dealer in antidotes (viṣavaidya); मां जाङ्गुलिकमालोक्य महतीं शान्तिमागताः (māṃ jāṅgulikamālokya mahatīṃ śāntimāgatāḥ) Śiva. B.13.44.

Derivable forms: jāṅgulikaḥ (जाङ्गुलिकः).

See also (synonyms): jāṅguli.

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

Jāṅgulika (जाङ्गुलिक).—m.

(-kaḥ) A snake-catcher, a snake-doctor, one who pretends, chiefly by charms, to cure the bite of snakes or other venomous animals, a dealer in antidotes, &c. E. jaṅgula poison, and ṭhañ aff. jāṅgulī viṣavidyā tām adhīte veda vā tayā dīvyati vā ṭhañ . viṣavaidye .

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

Jāṅgulika (जाङ्गुलिक):—[from jāṅgali] m. idem, [Harṣacarita i, 517; Kāśī khaṇḍa, from the skanda-purāṇa vli, 17.]

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

Jāṅgulika (जाङ्गुलिक):—(kaḥ) 1. m. Idem.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Jāṅgulika (जाङ्गुलिक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Jaṃguliya.

[Sanskrit to German]

Jangulika 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

Jaṃguḷika (ಜಂಗುಳಿಕ):—[noun] = ಜಂಗುಳಿಗ [jamguliga].

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Jāṃgulika (ಜಾಂಗುಲಿಕ):—

1) [noun] (masc.) a professional snake-charmer or catcher.

2) [noun] (masc.) a doctor who is an expert in administering antidotes; a toxicologist.

3) [noun] (masc.) an expert in magic; esp. a) a sorcerer; wizard; b) a performer skilled in sleight of hand, illusions, etc. 4. (fig.) a man that can achieve extraordinary feats.

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Jāṃguḷika (ಜಾಂಗುಳಿಕ):—[noun] = ಜಾಂಗುಲಿಕ [jamgulika].

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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.

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