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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Kāroṭaka (कारोटक).—Ārṣeya Pravara of Aṅgiras.^*

• * Matsya-purāṇa 196. 8.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

In Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: OSU Press: Cakrasamvara Samadhi

Karoṭaka (करोटक) refers to the “four skull bowls” of the Saṃvaramaṇḍala of Abhayākaragupta’s Niṣpannayogāvalī, p. 45 and n. 145; (Cf. Cakrasaṃvaratantra, Gray, David B., 2007).—The Cakrasaṃvara-maṇḍala has a total of sixty-two deities. [...] The Four skull cups in the cardinal directions, northeast, northwest, southwest, and southeast. Together with Cakrasaṃvara, Vajravārāhī, and the essence Yoginīs, they make up the jñāna-cakra, "the knowledge wheel".

The four skull bowls (karoṭaka) are:

1. Vajra-karoṭaka — Vajra skull bowl,
2. Samaya-karoṭaka — Vow skull bowl,
3. Visamaya-karoṭaka — Non-vow skull bowl,
4. Samayavisamaya-karoṭaka — Vow of the non-vow skull bowl.

Source: MDPI Books: The Ocean of Heroes

Karoṭaka (करोटक) refers to “skull bowls” (filled with the five-fold nectar of immortality), according to the 10th-century Ḍākārṇava-tantra: one of the last Tibetan Tantric scriptures belonging to the Buddhist Saṃvara tradition consisting of 51 chapters.—Accordingly, “[...] Yoginīs are on the lotus petals [facing to the four cardinal directions] such as the east [and] to every intermediate [direction]. [Yoginīs] starting with Ḍākinī, twenty-four in total, are [arranged] by sixes. [...]  Skull bowls [filled with] the five-fold nectar of immortality (pañcāmṛta-karoṭaka) are [placed] on the petals [located] between [the petals where the twenty-four Yoginīs reside] [...]”.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Karoṭaka (करोटक).—(m. or nt.; = prec.), cup, vessel: Sādhanamālā 47.21 nānāsugandhikusumaparipūrṇaśukla-karoṭakaṃ ([bahuvrīhi]); loha-ka° MPS 26.16.

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

Karoṭaka (करोटक):—[from karoṭa] m. Name of a Nāga, [Mahābhārata i, 1553] (cf. karkoṭaka.)

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Karotaka 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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Ends with: Mantrakarotaka, Samayakarotaka, Samayavisamayakarotaka, Vajrakarotaka, Visamayakarotaka.

Full-text: Jinadhatu, Samaya, Vishamaya, Samayavisamaya, Samayakarotaka, Vajrakarotaka, Samayavisamayakarotaka, Visamayakarotaka, Vajra, Karota, Pancamrita.

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