Karkashya, Kārkaśya: 11 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Kārkaśya can be transliterated into English as Karkasya or Karkashya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य):—Rough
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
kārkaśya (कार्कश्य).—n S Harshness or shrillness of sound.
kārkaśya (कार्कश्य).—n Harshness or shrillness of sound.
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
Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य).—
1) Hardness, roughness.
2) Firmness.
3) Solidity; आश्लेषलोलुपवधूस्तनकार्कश्यसाक्षिणीम् (āśleṣalolupavadhūstanakārkaśyasākṣiṇīm) Śiśupālavadha 2.17; Pañcatantra (Bombay) 1.19.
4) Hard-heartedness, sternness, cruelty; कार्कश्यं गमितेऽपि चेतसि (kārkaśyaṃ gamite'pi cetasi) Amaruśataka 28.
5) Rough labour; अवाप्य प्राणसन्देहं कार्कश्येन समार्जितम् (avāpya prāṇasandehaṃ kārkaśyena samārjitam) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 13.112.2.
Derivable forms: kārkaśyam (कार्कश्यम्).
Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य).—i. e. karkaśa + ya, n. 1. Hardness, [Pañcatantra] i. [distich] 205. 2. Harshness, [Amaruśataka, (ed. Calcutt.)] 24. 3. Rough labour, Mahābhārata 13, 5551.
Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य).—[neuter] roughness, hardness, severity.
1) Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य):—n. ([from] karkaśa), roughness, hardness, [Suśruta] etc.
2) rough labour, [Mahābhārata xiii, 5551]
3) firmness, sternness, [Pañcatantra etc.]
Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य):—(śyaṃ) 1. n. Hardness.
Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य):—(von karkaśa) n. Rauhheit, Härte (auch in übertr. Bed.) [Suśruta.1, 270, 12.] stanayoḥ [Pañcatantra I, 205.] kārkaśyaṃ gamite pi cetasi [Amaruśataka 24.] bhayakārkaśyakopānāṃ gṛhaṃ hi cchāndasā dvijāḥ [Kathāsaritsāgara 18, 108.] rauhe Arbeit: kārkaśyena samārjitam (samarjitam?) . annaṃ dattvā dvijātibhyaḥ śūdraḥ pāpātpramucyate .. [Mahābhārata 13, 5551.]
Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य):—n. —
1) Rauhheit , Härte (auch in übertr. Bed.). —
2) rohe — , harte Arbeit.
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
Kārkaśya (ಕಾರ್ಕಶ್ಯ):—
1) [noun] the state or quality of being hard; the ability to resist.
2) [noun] the quality of being unmanageable.
3) [noun] mercilessness; an unyieldng to or unmoving by pity or compassion.
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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