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Maitreyaka (मैत्रेयक).—Name of a mixed tribe; मैत्रेयकं तु वैदेहो माधूकं संप्रसूयते (maitreyakaṃ tu vaideho mādhūkaṃ saṃprasūyate) Manusmṛti 1.33.

Derivable forms: maitreyakaḥ (मैत्रेयकः).

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Maitreyaka (मैत्रेयक).—m.

(-kaḥ) A crier or chaunter of the hours: see the last. E. maitreya, kan added.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Maitreyaka (मैत्रेयक).—[maitreya + ka], m. 1. The son of a Vaideha by an Ayogava female, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 10, 33. 2. A crier or chaunter of the hours (this being probably the office of a Maitreyaka)

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

Maitreyaka (मैत्रेयक).—[masculine] [Name] of a cert. mixed caste.

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

Maitreyaka (मैत्रेयक):—[from maitra] m. Name of a [particular] mixed caste or degraded tribe (the offspring of a Vaideha and an Ayogavī, whose business is to praise great men and announce the dawn by ringing a bell), [Manu-smṛti x, 33]

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

Maitreyaka (मैत्रेयक):—(kaḥ) 1. m. Crier (of the hours).

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

Maitreyaka (मैत्रेयक):—

1) m. (von maitreya) eine best. Mischlingskaste [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 10, 33.] maireyaka [Mahābhārata]; vgl. maitra . —

2) f. maitreyikā a) die Abstammung von Mitrayu (vgl. [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 5, 1, 134]): maitreyikayā ślāghate [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 7, 3, 2,] [Scholiast] — b) ein Kampf zwischen Freunden (mitrayuddha) [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 2, 10.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Maitreyaka (मैत्रेयक):——

1) m. eine best. Mischlingskaste. —

2) *f. yika — a) die Abstammung von Mitrayu. — b) ein Kampf zwischen Freunden.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

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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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Full-text (+0): Maireyaka, Madhuka, Maitreya, Maitreyika, Maitra.

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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)

Verse 10.33 < [Section II - Mixed Castes]

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The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal (by Rajendralala Mitra)

Page 371 < [The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal (pages)]

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Yajnavalkya-smriti with Mitakshara and Viramitrodaya (by J. R. Gharpure)

Verse 1.95 < [Chapter 4 - Of the distinction of Varṇa (Class) and Jāti (Caste)]

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