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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Koṅka (कोङ्क).—A kingdom through which Ṛṣabha passed; Arhat was king.¹ A southern country;² unfit for śrāddha.³

• 1) Bhāgavata-purāṇa V. 6. 7 and 9.
• 2) Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa II. 16. 59.
• 3) Matsya-purāṇa 16. 16.

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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.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

kōṅka (कोंक).—n C A humpback: also a hump or hunch on the back.

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kōṅkā (कोंका).—m The style or spike which shoots up from the Plantain, containing the kēḷaphūla &c. 2 A monochord or one-stringed fiddle. Used by the kānaphāṭyā gōsāvī. 3 (kaṅka S) A heron. 4 A certain shell-fish.

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

kōṅka (कोंक).—n A humpback; also a hump or hunch on the back.

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kōṅkā (कोंका).—f The spike which shoots up from kēḷa.

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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

Koṅka (कोङ्क).—(Pl.) Name of a country, the strip of land between the Sahyādri and the ocean; Mahābhārata (Bombay) 6; आक्रम्य क्रमुकश्यामान्कोङ्कणान्सप्त तापयन् । तुरगानिव तिग्मांशोः प्रताप- स्तस्य पप्रथे (ākramya kramukaśyāmānkoṅkaṇānsapta tāpayan | turagāniva tigmāṃśoḥ pratāpa- stasya paprathe) || Rāj. T.4.159.

-ṇam A kind of weapon.

Derivable forms: koṅkaḥ (कोङ्कः).

See also (synonyms): koṅkaṇa.

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

Koṅka (कोङ्क).—m. The name of a people, [Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, (ed. Burnouf.)] 5, 6, 8.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Koṅka (कोङ्क) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—poet. [Sūktikarṇāmṛta by Śrīdharadāsa]

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

Koṅka (कोङ्क):—m. [plural] Name of a people, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa v, 6, 8 and 10] (cf. kauṅka.)

[Sanskrit to German]

Konka 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

Koṃka (ಕೊಂಕ):—[noun] = ಕೊಂಕು [komku]2.

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Koṃka (ಕೊಂಕ):—

1) [noun] the western region of Tamil Nadu in South India; the present Coimbatore region.

2) [noun] a man belonging to this region.

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Koṃka (ಕೊಂಕ):—[noun] a man whose bodily stature is crooked.

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Koṃka (ಕೊಂಕ):—[noun] a kind of wild animal.

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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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