The Sanskrit terms Kōkaśāstra and Kokaśāstra can be transliterated into English as Kokasastra or Kokashastra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I (ayurveda)

Kokaśāstra (कोकशास्त्र) is the name of a work which was rendered in Hindi by Ānanda Kavi as the Kokasāra (dealing with Poetics and Erotics), which is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—The Kokasāra is a hindi rewriting of the Kokaśāstra (Kokkaśāstra) alias Ratirahasya, a famous Sanskrit work of the Kāmaśāstra tradition which is characterized, in particular, by the division of ladies in four categories related to their body-marks, namely padminī, citraṇī, śaṅkhanī and hastinī, with which the work starts. It is very popular and known as Kokasāra (as the author names it) or Kokamañjarī.

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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.

Kama-shastra (the science of Love-making)

Source: Wikipedia: Kāmaśāstra

Kokaśāstra (कोकशास्त्र) (or Ratirahasya) is the name of a a medieval Indian sex manual written by Kokkoka—a poet variously described as Koka or Koka Pundit (Kokapaṇḍita). The exact date of its writing is not known, but it is estimated the text was written in the 11th or 12th century. It is speculated that Ratirahasya was written to please a king by the name Venudutta. Kokkoka describes himself in the book as siddha patiya pandita, i.e. "an ingenious man among learned men". The manual was written in Sanskrit.

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Kamashastra (कामशास्त्र, kāmaśāstra) deals with ancient Indian science of love-making, passion, emotions and other related topics dealing with the pleasures of the senses.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

kōkaśāstra (कोकशास्त्र).—n The name of a treatise on the art of love; describing the merits and excellencies of the sexes &c. Ascribed to a Panḍit named kōka. By others the formation is assigned to the observation of the loves of the bird cakravāka and his mate (otherwise called kōka); they, although separate at night (according to the Hindee tetrastic--cakavā cakaī yēdō jana || ina mata mārō kōī || yē mārē karttāra kē || raina bicchōrā hōya ||), being always together in the day time. Ex. nātarī kōkaśāstrācē pustakānta || bāndhilē jaisē vēdānta ||.

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

kōkaśāstra (कोकशास्त्र).—n The name of a treatise on the art of love.

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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

Kokaśāstra (कोकशास्त्र).—Name of a treatise on the art of love (ascribed to a pandit named koka).

Derivable forms: kokaśāstram (कोकशास्त्रम्).

Kokaśāstra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms koka and śāstra (शास्त्र).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Kokaśāstra (कोकशास्त्र) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—erotic, by Kokadeva. B. 3, 50.

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

Kokaśāstra (कोकशास्त्र):—[=koka-śāstra] [from koka] n. Name of an indecent treatise on the art of love (ascribed to a Paṇḍit named Koka).

[Sanskrit to German]

Kokashastra 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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Kokaśāstra (कोकशास्त्र):—(nm) a treatise on sex by an ancient Indian sexologist Koka:; the science of sex.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kōkaśāstra (ಕೋಕಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ):—[noun] a treatise, believed to have been written by Kōka, on eroticism.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Shastra, Koka.

Ends with: Kakkokashastra, Kakokashastra, Kokkokashastra.

Full-text (+5): Kokamarga, Ratirahasya, Kokakattale, Kokadeva, Hastini, Citrani, Shankhani, Padmini, Indrashana, Strijati, Narilakshana, Ratyasana, Yogyasana, Premabheda, Vaishesha, Candrakala, Purishajati, Kokkoka, Lalasasana, Kokapandita.

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