Mushtika, Muṣṭika: 18 definitions

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In Hinduism
1. Purana
2. Natyashastra
3. Kavya
4. Kamashastra
Languages
1. Marathi
2. Sanskrit
3. Kannada
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Introduction:

Mushtika means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, 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.

The Sanskrit term Muṣṭika can be transliterated into English as Mustika or Mushtika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Google Books: The Purana Index

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक):—An Asura friend of Kamsa. Invited by Kamsa, he got readyt for a wrestling match with Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. Took his seat in the enclosure; challenged by Rāma, fought according to rules, and courted death.uggested identification with the pirate coast of the Konkan).

Source: archive.org: Puranic Encyclopedia

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक).—An asura who was a servant of Kaṃsa. This asura was killed by Balabhadra. (See under Kṛṣṇa).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक).—An Asura friend (wrestler, Viṣṇu-purāṇa) of Kaṃsa. Invited by Kaṃsa, he got ready for a wrestling match with Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. Took his seat in the enclosure; challenged by Rāma, fought according to rules, and courted death. (Balabhadra,, Viṣṇu-purāṇa)^*

* Bhāgavata-purāṇa X. 2. 1; 36. 21-24; 37. 15; 42. 37; 43. 40; 44. 1, 19, and 24-25; Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa IV. 29. 123. Viṣṇu-purāṇa V. 15. 7 and 16; 20. 18, 65. 78.

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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.

Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)

Source: Wisdom Library: Nāṭya-śāstra

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक) is the Sanskrit name of one of Bharata’s sons, mentioned in the Nāṭyaśāstra 1.26-33. His name can also be spelled as Muṣṭhika. After Brahmā created the Nāṭyaveda (nāṭyaśāstra), he ordered Bharata to teach the science to his (one hundred) sons. Bharata thus learned the Nāṭyaveda from Brahmā, and then made his sons study and learn its proper application. After their study, Bharata assigned his sons (eg., Muṣṭika) various roles suitable to them.

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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)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक) is the name of a king whose strength is considered as equaling a half-power warrior (ardharatha), according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 47. Accordingly, as the Asura Maya explained the arrangement of warriors in Sunītha’s army: “... [Muṣṭika, and others], are considered half-power warriors”.

The story of Muṣṭika was narrated by the Vidyādhara king Vajraprabha to prince Naravāhanadatta in order to relate how “Sūryaprabha, being a man, obtain of old time the sovereignty over the Vidyādharas”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Muṣṭika, is a famous Sanskrit epic story revolving around prince Naravāhanadatta and his quest to become the emperor of the vidyādharas (celestial beings). The work is said to have been an adaptation of Guṇāḍhya’s Bṛhatkathā consisting of 100,000 verses, which in turn is part of a larger work containing 700,000 verses.

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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’.

Kama-shastra (the science of Love-making)

Source: Shodhganga: Elements of Art and Architecture in the Trtiyakhanda of the Visnudharmottarapurana (kama)

Muṣṭikā (मुष्टिका) or Muṣṭikākathana refers to “understanding of code words”.—Cf. Akṣaramuṣṭikākathana which refers to “writing and understanding of code words and words in particular way”, representing one of the “sixty four kinds of Art”, according to the Kāmasūtra of Vātsyāyaṇa.—Indian tradition, basically includes sixty four Art forms are acknowledged. The references of sixty four kinds of kalā are found in the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, Śaiva-Tantras, Kāmasūtra of Vātsyāyaṇa etc.

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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

muṣṭikā (मुष्टिका).—f S The fist.

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

muṣṭikā (मुष्टिका).—f The fist.

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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

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक).—[muṣṭirmoṣaṇaṃ prayojanamasya kan]

1) A goldsmith.

2) A particular position of the hands.

3) Name of a demon.

-kam A pugilistic encounter, fisticuffs.

-kāḥ (pl.) Name of an outcast race (the Dombas); श्वमांसनियताहारा मुष्टिका नाम निर्वृणाः (śvamāṃsaniyatāhārā muṣṭikā nāma nirvṛṇāḥ) Rām.1.59.19.

Derivable forms: muṣṭikaḥ (मुष्टिकः).

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Muṣṭikā (मुष्टिका).—The fist.

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

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक).—also mauṣṭika, moṭṭ(h)ika (compare Pali muṭ-ṭhika, app. only boxer, prize-fighter, associated with malla; from Sanskrit muṣṭi; AMg. muṭṭhiya, id.; Sanskrit muṣṭika, name of a roaming despised caste who guard corpses and eat dog-flesh, according to Rām. commentary = ḍomba; Sanskrit Lex. also goldsmith), (1) perhaps = Sanskrit muṣṭika, name of a gypsy- like low caste: Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 276.5 (prose) na caṇḍālān na mauṣṭikān na saukarikān…(considerably later in the list, na mallān nānyāni pareṣāṃ ratikrīḍāsthānāni tāni) nopasaṃkrā- mati; Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 279.2 (verse), cited Śikṣāsamuccaya 48.2, (kuryāt tehi na saṃsta- vam) caṇḍālamuṣṭikaiḥ śauṇḍais (so also Śikṣāsamuccaya, but WT cite Ḱ cāpi for śau°, and so Tibetan, gdol ba daṅ ni zol ba for entire pāda) tīrthikaiś…; but both these may be otherwise interpreted; Tibetan for both zol ba, trickster; the Pali meaning boxer is also not out of the question (note malla in 276.6, with reference to entertainers; does Tibetan zol ba mean here juggler, sleight-of-hand performer? see 2); (2) (compare Tibetan on Saddharmapuṇḍarīka under 1) mauṣṭikaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 3808, followed by vidūṣakaḥ, buffoon; according to Tibetan zol pa, trickster (possibly in the sense of juggler); (3) possibly (= Pali muṭṭhika) boxer, fist-fighter: Mahāvyutpatti 7072 muṣṭikāḥ, v.l. mauṣṭikāḥ (Mironov, and [Boehtlingk] 7.368, musuntikā, clearly corrupt) = Tibetan khu tshur, fist (Sanskrit muṣṭi); Chin. also fist; Japanese fist, also trickster, low-class person (probably based on Tibetan on 3808); (4) (as in Sanskrit Lex.) goldsmith: (after suvarṇa- dhovakā, q.v.) mauṣṭikā Mahāvastu iii.113.19, or (same passage, list of artisans and craftsmen) moṭṭikā (so mss., Senart moṭṭhikā) iii.443.6; goldsmiths are proverbially tricky, hence perhaps this is derived from meaning 2. The word mau- ṣṭika occurs, without preserved context, in Kalpanā- maṇḍitikā, see Lüders’ discussion, Kl. Sanskrit Texte 2, 44.

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

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक).—m.

(-kaḥ) 1. A goldsmith. 2. A particular position of the hands. 3. Name of a demon killed by Baladeva. n.

(-kaṃ) A pugilistic encounter. E. muṣṭi stealing and kṛ to make, aff. ḍa .

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

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक).—m. A goldsmith.

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

1) Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक):—[from muṣ] m. a handful (See catur-m)

2) [v.s. ...] a [particular] position of the hands, [Catalogue(s)]

3) [v.s. ...] a goldsmith, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) [v.s. ...] Name of an Asura, [Harivaṃśa]

5) [v.s. ...] ([plural]) of a despised race (= ḍombās), [Rāmāyaṇa]

6) Muṣṭikā (मुष्टिका):—[from muṣṭika > muṣ] a f. See akṣara-muṣṭikā

7) Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक):—[from muṣ] n. ([probably]) a pugilistic encounter, [Mahābhārata]

8) [v.s. ...] a [particular] game, [Siṃhāsana-dvātriṃśikā or vikramāditya-caritra, jaina recension]

9) Muṣṭikā (मुष्टिका):—[from muṣ] b f. in [compound]

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

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक):—(kaḥ) 1. m. A goldsmith.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Muṣṭika (मुष्टिक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Muṭṭhia.

[Sanskrit to German]

Mushtika 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

Muṣṭika (ಮುಷ್ಟಿಕ):—

1) [noun] = ಮುಷ್ಟಿ [mushti]2 - 11.

2) [noun] a man who makes and sells gold articles; a goldsmith.

3) [noun] a physical fight in which blows with the fist are exchanged; a pugilistic encounter.

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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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