India history and geography

Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Śilāhāras

1) Kakkala (कक्कल) of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa line of kings is mentioned in the Paṭṭaṇakuḍi plates of Avasara II.—“Khoṭika’s nephew was Kakkala, a lord of the Earth, who was dear to the people. Like (the Sun) of terrible lustre, he vanquished all his enemies. Having vanquished him in battle, Tailapa became king, looking resplendent in the Cālukya family—a lion to the elephants in the form of his enemies”.

These copper plates (mentioning Kakkala) were found by a Brāhmaṇa of Khārepāṭan, a town in the Devagaḍ tālukā of the Ratnāgiri District. The inscription refers itself to the reign of the Śilāra king, Māṇḍalika Raṭṭarāja. As his predecessors were loyal feudatories of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, it gives first the genealogy of that family from Dantidurga to Kakkala. The inscription is dated, in lines 41-42, on the full-moon tithi of Jyeṣṭha in the śaka year 930, the cyclic year being Kīlaka.

2) Kakkala (कक्कल) is the name of a goldsmith mentioned in the “Ciñcaṇī plate of the reign of Cittarāja”. Accordingly, “Now, while the Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, the illustrious Cāmuṇḍarāja, who, by his religious merit, has obtained the right to the five mahāśabdas... is governing Saṃyāna, he addresses all persons, whether connected with himself or others (such as Kakkala)...”.

This plate (mentioning Kakkala) was found together with eight others at Chincaṇī in the Ḍahāṇu tāluka of the Ṭhāṇā District, North Koṅkaṇ, in 1955. The object of the inscription is to record the grant, by Cāmuṇḍarāja, of a ghāṇaka (oil-mill) in favour of the temple Kautuka-maṭhikā of the goddess Bhagavatī at Saṃyāna. The gift was made by pouring out water on the hand of the Svādhyāyika (scholar) Vīhaḍa, on the fifteenth tithi of the dark fortnight (i.e. amāvāsyā) of Bhādrapada in the śaka year 956.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kakkāla (कक्काल).—

1) Name of a plant bearing a berry; कक्कोलीफलजग्धि (kakkolīphalajagdhi) Mālatīmādhava (Bombay) 6.19. v. l.

-lam, -lakam 1 A berry of this plant.

2) A perfume prepared from its berries.

Derivable forms: kakkālaḥ (कक्कालः).

See also (synonyms): kakkālī.

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

Kakkala (कक्कल):—m. Name of a man.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kakkala 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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Starts with: Kakkalati, Kakkalattu.

Full-text (+9): Kakkali, Takkolam, Khotika, Lokaparya, Satyashraya, Dantidurga, Rattaraja, Ambhojashambhu, Nirupama, Dhruva, Akalavarsha, Jagattunga, Tailapa, Kandalamuliya, Rashtrakuta, Sanaphulla, Sayyapali, Devalakshmi, Asanavira, Kushmandi.

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