The Sanskrit term Kārkaśya can be transliterated into English as Karkasya or Karkashya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of terms

Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य):—Rough

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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

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

kārkaśya (कार्कश्य).—n S Harshness or shrillness of sound.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

kārkaśya (कार्कश्य).—n Harshness or shrillness of sound.

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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

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).

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

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.

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

Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य).—[neuter] roughness, hardness, severity.

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

1) Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य):—n. ([from] karkaśa), roughness, hardness, [Suśruta] etc.

2) rough labour, [Mahābhārata xiii, 5551]

3) firmness, sternness, [Pañcatantra etc.]

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

Kārkaśya (कार्कश्य):—(śyaṃ) 1. n. Hardness.

[Sanskrit to German]

Karkashya 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

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.

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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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Ends with: Kanthakarkashya.

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