Muktaka: 11 definitions

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Muktaka means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Hindi. 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 Muktak.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Muktaka (मुक्तक).—

1) A missile, a missile weapon.

2) Simple prose (without compound words).

3) A detached stanza, the meaning of which is complete in itself; see Kāv.1.13; मुक्तकं श्लोक एवैकश्चमत्कारक्षमः सताम् (muktakaṃ śloka evaikaścamatkārakṣamaḥ satām).

Derivable forms: muktakam (मुक्तकम्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Muktaka (मुक्तक).—(1) name of a śreṣṭhin (called Vimuktaka in the list, Gaṇḍavyūha 549.3): Gaṇḍavyūha 76.20; 77.23; 79.8, etc.; (2) name of an author: Sādhanamālā 94.19 etc. See also muktikā.

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Muktaka (मुक्तक) or Vimuktaka.—(śreṣṭhin), q.v.: Gaṇḍavyūha 549.3.

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

Muktaka (मुक्तक).—n.

(-kaṃ) 1. Any missile weapon. 2. A stanza or sentence completing the sense of a passage. 3. Simple prose. E. mukta loosed, let fly, and kan added.

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

Muktaka (मुक्तक).—[mukta + ka] (vb. muck), n. Any missile weapon.

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

1) Muktaka (मुक्तक):—[from muc] mfn. detached, separate, independent, [Purāṇa]

2) [v.s. ...] n. a missile, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] a detached śloka (the meaning of which is complete in itself), [Kāvyādarśa]

4) [v.s. ...] simple prose (without compound words), [Sāhitya-darpaṇa]

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

Muktaka (मुक्तक):—(kaṃ) 1. n. Any missile weapon.

[Sanskrit to German]

Muktaka 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.

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Hindi dictionary

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Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Muktaka (मुक्तक) [Also spelled muktak]:—(a and nm) stray, independent, not forming a connected whole; independent poems or couplets; —[kāvya] independent poetic verses; poetry that is not epical in character.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Muktaka (ಮುಕ್ತಕ):—

1) [noun] a verse which carries an idea in full, independent of other verses.

2) [noun] a prose that is free from long and complex sentenses.

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Muktaka (ಮುಕ್ತಕ):—[noun] the tree Butea frondosa of Papilionaceae family.

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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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Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Muktaka (मुक्तक):—n. verselet;

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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.

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