Madhukari, Madhukarī, Mādhukarī: 13 definitions
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Madhukari means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi. 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.
In Hinduism
Vaishnavism (Vaishava dharma)
Mādhukarī (माधुकरी).—A saintly mendicant who takes a little food from each householder's place like a bee gathering honey; a system of begging adopted by a mendicant.
Vaishnava (वैष्णव, vaiṣṇava) or vaishnavism (vaiṣṇavism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshipping Vishnu as the supreme Lord. Similar to the Shaktism and Shaivism traditions, Vaishnavism also developed as an individual movement, famous for its exposition of the dashavatara (‘ten avatars of Vishnu’).
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Madhukarī (मधुकरी) refers to a type of syllabic metre (vṛtta), according to the Nāṭyaśāstra chapter 16. In this metre, the seventh, the eighth and the ninth syllables of a foot (pāda) are heavy (guru), while the rest of the syllables are light (laghu). It is also known by the name Bhujagaśiśubhṛtā.
⏑⏑⏑¦⏑⏑⏑¦⎼⎼⎼¦¦⏑⏑⏑¦⏑⏑⏑¦⎼⎼⎼¦¦
⏑⏑⏑¦⏑⏑⏑¦⎼⎼⎼¦¦⏑⏑⏑¦⏑⏑⏑¦⎼⎼⎼¦¦
Madhukarī falls in the Bṛhatī class of chandas (rhythm-type), which implies that verses constructed with this metre have four pādas (‘foot’ or ‘quarter-verse’) containing nine syllables each.
Natyashastra (नाट्यशास्त्र, nāṭyaśāstra) refers to both the ancient Indian tradition (shastra) of performing arts, (natya—theatrics, drama, dance, music), as well as the name of a Sanskrit work dealing with these subjects. It also teaches the rules for composing Dramatic plays (nataka), construction and performance of Theater, and Poetic works (kavya).
Kavya (poetry)
Mādhukarī (माधुकरी) refers to a “form of begging” (practised by a religious mendicant restricting himself to three, five or seven households), and is mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 7.104.—The word [mādhukarī] occurs also in the form mādhūkara. Cf Uśanas quoted by Mādhavācārya on Parāśara (chapter 2). Cf. also Bhāgavata 11.8.9.
Mādhukarī is so called because it resembles the gathering of honey by bees in small quantities. Śrīdharasvāmin’s explanation of the word in his gloss on the above verse seems to be irrelevant.
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’.
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Madhukarī (मधुकरी) is the name of a catuṣpadi metre (as popularly employed by the Apabhraṃśa bards), as discussed in books such as the Chandonuśāsana, Kavidarpaṇa, Vṛttajātisamuccaya and Svayambhūchandas.—Madhukarī has 25 mātrās in each of its four lines, divided into the groups of 5, 5, 5, 5 and 5 mātrās.
Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
madhukarī (मधुकरी).—f & m Properly mādhukarī.
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mādhukarī (माधुकरी).—f (S The business of a bee, collecting from flower to flower; so these beggars, from door to door.) corruptly mādhōkarī f Dressed food given in alms to Brahmans. 2 m One that subsists on victuals obtained by begging from door to door.
madhukarī (मधुकरी).—Commonly mādhukarī.
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mādhukarī (माधुकरी).—f Dressed food given in alms to brāhmaṇa. m One that subsists on victuals.
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
Mādhukarī (माधुकरी).—f. (-rī) The alms obtained from five places by the third class of religious mendicants, gathering alms from door to door as a bee gathers honey from flower to flower. E. madhukara a bee, aṇ aff.
1) Madhukarī (मधुकरी):—[=madhu-karī] [from madhu-kara > madhu] f. a female bee, [Kāvya literature; Pañcatantra] ([varia lectio]) etc.
2) [v.s. ...] Name of a girl, [Harṣacarita]
3) Madhukārī (मधुकारी):—[=madhu-kārī] [from madhu-kāra > madhu] f. a female bee, [Rāmāyaṇa]
4) [v.s. ...] a [particular] wind-instrument, [Saṃgīta-sārasaṃgraha]
5) Mādhukarī (माधुकरी):—[=mādhu-karī] [from mādhu-kara > mādhu > mādhava] f. collecting alms after the manner of a bee (id est. by going from door to door), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
6) [v.s. ...] alms obtained from five different places by the third class of religious mendicants, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Madhukari (मधुकरि):—oder madhukarin m. Biene [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 56, 8] fehlerhaft für kārī, wie die ed. Bomb. liest.
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
Madhukari (ಮಧುಕರಿ):—
1) [noun] = ಮಧುಕರವೃತ್ತಿ [madhukaravritti].
2) [noun] a female honey-bee.
3) [noun] a kind of leprosy.
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Mādhukari (ಮಾಧುಕರಿ):—
1) [noun] = ಮಾಧುಕರವೃತ್ತಿ [madhukaravritti].
2) [noun] food obtained as alms from different houses.
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Mādhūkari (ಮಾಧೂಕರಿ):—[noun] = ಮಾಧುಕರಿ - [madhukari -] 2.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Madhukārī (मधुकारी):—n. 1. a female black bee; 2. the cooked alms given to ascetic;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
Pali-English dictionary
madhukarī (မဓုကရီ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[madhukara+ī]
[မဓုကရ+ဤ]
[Pali to Burmese]
madhukarī—
(Burmese text): ပျားမ။ မဓုကရ-(က)-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): Bee. Look at the flower.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Madhu, I, Madhukara, Karin, Matu.
Starts with: Madhukarika, Madhukarimakkhika, Madhukarin.
Full-text: Madhukarimakkhika, Madhukara, Oli Bhiksha, Mattamadhukari, Madhukarika, Matukari, Bhujagashishubhrita, Nilaka, Khola.
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