Kasara, Kāsara, Kāsāra: 19 definitions
Introduction:
Kasara means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, Hindi, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Alternative spellings of this word include Kasar.
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexKāsāra (कासार).—A pupil of Bāṣkali.*
- * Bhāgavata-purāṇa XII. 6. 59.
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.
Kavya (poetry)
Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of SriharsaKāsara (कासर) refers to a “buffalo”, and is mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 16.18. Cf. Anargharāghava (act 6).
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’.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Veterinary Medicine (The study and treatment of Animals)
Source: Shodhganga: Portrayal of Animal Kingdom (Tiryaks) in Epics An Analytical studyKāsara (कासर) refers to the Surti breed of the Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), according to scientific texts such as the Mṛgapakṣiśāstra (Mriga-pakshi-shastra) or “the ancient Indian science of animals and birds” by Hamsadeva, containing the varieties and descriptions of the animals and birds seen in the Sanskrit Epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
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.
India history and geography
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical GlossaryKāsāra.—(EI 4), a brazier; same as Kāṃsyakāra. Note: kāsāra is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Kasara in India is the name of a plant defined with Strychnos nux-vomica in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Strychnos nux-vomica var. oligosperma Dop (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Mémoires de la Société Botanique de France (1910)
· Rumphia (1836)
· Lloydia (1973)
· Taxon (1980)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Kasara, for example health benefits, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, chemical composition, side effects, have a look at these references.
This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarykasara (कसर).—f ( A) Deficiency, imperfection, incorrectness (in quantity or measure, in the execution of any work, in an account &c.) It expresses a slight remove, whether of defect or of excess, from exact sufficiency or precise rectitude. It implies also the part or portion wanting or excessive: also the faint and lingering remainder (of a quality, affection &c. removed or departed). Ex. pāgōṭyā- cā raṅga puratēpaṇīṃ gēlā nāhīṃ kāṃhīṃ ka0 āhē; jvara gēlā parantu kāṃhīṃ ka0 rāhilī. In some of its current applications it bears the sense of Excess or profit, and in others that of Deficiency or loss; occurring, in the first case, with such verbs as miḷaṇēṃ, rāhaṇēṃ, yēṇēṃ, nighaṇēṃ, and in the second, with such as buḍaṇēṃ, jāṇēṃ. Ex. dāhā tōḷē sōnēṃ ghēūna vikārī kēlī tyānta māsābhara ka0 rāhilī; tyā rupayāmmadhyēṃ ka0 miḷālī; hyā vyāpārāmadhyēṃ mājhī ka0 buḍālī; tū mōjaṇyāmadhyēṃ ka0 karūṃ nakō. This equivocality, however, although contended for by the natives themselves, is only apparent; the just explication of the word being, as above, Lack or imperfection--i.e. shortcoming or remove from the fullness or perfectness contemplated. ka0 kāḍhaṇēṃ therefore is To get out the deficit or deficiency of; i.e. to get or make, for a loss or lack in one business or thing, compensation or amends in another. 2 In accounts. A sum added to or subtracted from either side to make up a difference, or to make the totals agree. 3 Feverishness; faint febrile symptoms; whether as indicative of a fever approaching, or as the remnant of a fever removed. 4 Parsimonious clipping and cutting; retrenching, economizing: also clippings, savings, retrenchments. 5 By-gains, or illicit gains, ill-defined pickings. 6 Light fleecy clouds; the cirro-cumulus or mackerel sky. 7 A certain aquatic and esculent root. 8 A moth.
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kasarā (कसरा).—a Grey or dirty white. 2 Variegated.
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kāsara (कासर).—m The Indian cuckoo.
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kāsarā (कासरा).—m The reins or guiding string of a bullock &c. kā0 bhara or dōna kāsarē divasa or sūrya (yēṇēṃ or rāhaṇēṃ) A phrase amongst country people for the day or sun when conceived to be at a distance from the horizon (as rising or as declining) equal to the length of a kā0.
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kāsāra (कासार).—m S A lake, tank, pond, an expanse of water.
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kāsāra (कासार) [or कांसार, kāṃsāra].—m (kāṃsyakāra S) A caste or an individual of it. They are braziers or workers in white or bell metal. 2 (By mispronunciation of or mistake for kāñcāra) A maker of or stringer of glass bangles.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishkasara (कसर).—f A moth. Deficiency. By-gains. Feverishness. kasara kāḍhaṇēṃ or kāḍhūṇa dēṇēṃ To make up the deficiency.
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kāsarā (कासरा).—m The reins or guiding string of a bullock, &c.
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kāsāra (कासार).—m A lake, pond.
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kāsāra (कासार).—m A brazier. A maker of glass bangles.
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 dictionaryKāsara (कासर).—(-rī f.) A buffalo. व्यारोषं मानिन्यास्तमोदिवः कासरं कलमभूमेः (vyāroṣaṃ māninyāstamodivaḥ kāsaraṃ kalamabhūmeḥ) Aryā S.
Derivable forms: kāsaraḥ (कासरः).
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Kāsāra (कासार).—A pond, pool, lake; शुष्के नीरे कः कासारः (śuṣke nīre kaḥ kāsāraḥ) Charpaṭapañjarī; Bv.1.43; Bhartṛhari 1.32. विकाशः कासारो- पवनपवनोऽपि व्यथयति (vikāśaḥ kāsāro- pavanapavano'pi vyathayati) Gītagovinda 2.
Derivable forms: kāsāraḥ (कासारः), kāsāram (कासारम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryKāsara (कासर).—m.
(-raḥ) A buffalo. E. ka water, and āṅ prefixed to sṛ to go, affix ap; who frequents water, this animal being partial to marshy places.
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Kāsāra (कासार).—m.
(-raḥ) A pond, a pool. E. ka water, sṛ to go, āṅ prefix, and ghañ affix, or kās to shine, āran Unadi aff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryKāsāra (कासार).—m. A pond, [Bhartṛhari, (ed. Bohlen.)] 1, 39.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryKāsāra (कासार).—[masculine] pond, lake.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Kasāra (कसार):—n. ([varia lectio] kaṃsāra, or kaṃsāra) = kṛsara, q.v., [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]
2) Kāsara (कासर):—[=kā-sara] m. (cf. kā-sṛti) a buffalo, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
3) Kāsāra (कासार):—m. [am n., [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]] a pond, pool, [Harivaṃśa; Daśakumāra-carita; Bhartṛhari; Gīta-govinda]
4) Name of a teacher, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa xii, 6, 59.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Kāsara (कासर):—(raḥ) 1. m. A buffalo.
2) Kāsāra (कासार):—(raḥ) 1. m. A pond.
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Kasara (कसर) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Kasara, Kāsāra.
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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.
Hindi dictionary
Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary1) Kasara (कसर) [Also spelled kasar]:—(nf) deficiency; loss; drawback; lacuna, shortcoming; (in Mathematics) a fraction;—[karanā/rakhanā] to be wanting (in), to fail (to); —[khānā/uṭhānā] to suffer loss or damage; —[denā] to inflict loss (on); —[na uṭhā rakhanā] to leave no avenue unexplored, to leave no stone unturned; —[nikalanā] to be compensated; to be avenged; —[nikālanā] to make up the loss; to avenge, to be quits (with).
2) Kasāra (कसार) [Also spelled kasar]:—(nm) wheat flour fried in ghee and mixed with sugar.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary1) Kasara (कसर) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Kasara.
2) Kāsāra (कासार) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Kāsāra.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusKāsara (ಕಾಸರ):—[noun] = ಕಾಸರ್ಕ [kasarka].
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Kāsara (ಕಾಸರ):—[noun] the male water buffalo Bubalus bubalis, either domesticated or wild.
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Kāsara (ಕಾಸರ):—[noun] a large tract of uncultivated land covered with trees and undergrowth; a forest.
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Kāsāra (ಕಾಸಾರ):—[noun] a smith who works in brass, bronze or copper, making and repairing vessels and other articles.
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Kāsāra (ಕಾಸಾರ):—[noun] a body of water, smaller than a lake; a pond.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Ka, Sara, Cara.
Starts with (+11): Kacarai, Kacaraikkaru, Kacarattu, Kacarayokam, Kasara-tige, Kasarabasara, Kasarada, Kasaradevi, Kasaradidhi, Kasaragaddi, Kasaragod, Kasaragolisu, Kasarajivishastra, Kasaraka, Kasarakai, Kasarakana, Kasarakava, Kasarakayee, Kasarakayi, Kasarakka.
Ends with (+28): Ahnikasara, Akasara, Brihadaranyakavarttikasara, Dashakumaracaritapurvapithikasara, Ekasara, Ekkasara, Gamjiyekkasara, Hulakasara, Ikasara, Jakkasara, Jatakasara, Kalpakarikasara, Kamakasara, Karakasara, Karkasara, Karmavipakasara, Kasturikasara, Katakasara, Kokasara, Kridakasara.
Full-text (+8): Kasaras, Kasaram, Kasarakusara, Phuradi, Kasarada, Akasara, Kridakasara, Imgara, Pancala, Sita, Kashura, Kasara-tige, Kasaranem, Krikalasaka, Kor, Koi, Kasari, Mathota, Kora, Varshopalagolaka.
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Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī)
Verse 3.2.127 < [Part 2 - Affection and Service (dāsya-rasa)]
Animal Kingdom (Tiryak) in Epics (by Saranya P.S)
Vastu-shastra (2): Town Planning (by D. N. Shukla)
Beautification (b): Gardens, etc. < [Chapter 6 - Deification and Beautification of Towns]
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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)
Text 10.190 < [Chapter 10 - Ornaments of Meaning]
Vastu-shastra (5): Temple Architecture (by D. N. Shukla)
Temples of Gujrat (Gujarat) and the West < [Chapter 12 - History of Hindu Temples (Prāsādas and Vimānas)]
Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)
Appendix 1.6: New and rare words < [Appendices]