Natika, Ñātika, Nāṭika, Nātika, Nati-ka, Nati-ika, Ñātikā: 13 definitions
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In Hinduism
Natyashastra (theatrics and dramaturgy)
Nāṭikā (नाटिका) or Nāṭī (नाटी).—A type of dramatic play;—Different in origin from (the two types of plays) the nāṭaka and the prakaraṇa, its plot should be invented, the Hero should be a king, and it should be based on an incident relating to music or affairs of the harem. And it contains an abundance of female characters, has four Acts, graceful gestures as its soul; well-arranged constituents, many dances, songs and recitations, and love’s enjoyment are its chief features.
Nāṭikā (नाटिका) refers to one of the twelve kinds of Rūpaka, which represents the dṛśyakāvya division of Kāvya (“poetry”), according to the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, an ancient Sanskrit text which (being encyclopedic in nature) deals with a variety of cultural topics such as arts, architecture, music, grammar and astronomy.—According to the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa, in nāṭikā, there should be four acts and the predominant sentiment should be Śṛṇgāra. Nāṭyaśāstra also agrees with this viewpoint and said that nāṭikā should contain loads of female characters, dances, songs, love, enjoyment etc. According to the Sāhityadarpaṇa, the lady born in royal family having the interest on Music, Dance etc. should be the heroin of a nāṭikā
Nāṭikā (नाटिका) refers to one of the twenty-one divisions of the Mārga-Rūpaka compositions in ancient Indian art of dance and theater.—Puruṣottama Miśrā, while defining the terms mārga and deśī quotes the Saṅgītanārāyaṇa (Vol. II, pp.406-410) which he says has been taken from Kohala (the work of Kohala). He says that mārga is that which was shown to Śiva and Pārvatī by Brahma after performing penance. He says the mārgarūpakas are twenty in number [e.g., nāṭikā]. [...] But when listing out the names, there appear twenty-one rūpakas. [...]
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).
India history and geography
Nātika (नातिक) or Ñātika is the name of an ancient locality situated in Majjhimadesa (Middle Country) of ancient India, as recorded in the Pāli Buddhist texts (detailing the geography of ancient India as it was known in to Early Buddhism).—In the Saṃyutta Nikāya we are told that the Buddha stayed at Nātika. It is called Nādika (of the Nādikas). The identification of the place is not known.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
nāṭika : (nt.) a drama. || nāṭikā (f.), a dancing girl.
1) nātika (နာတိက) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[ñāti+ka．ña- na-pru．dī,ṭī,2．14va．aṃ,ṭī,3．98．]
[ဉာတိ+က။ ဉ-ကို န-ပြု။ ဒီ၊ဋီ၊၂။၁၄ဝ။အံ၊ဋီ၊၃။၉၈။]
2) ñātika (ဉာတိက) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[ñāti+ika]
[ဉာတိ+ဣက]
3) ñātika (ဉာတိက) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[ñāti+ka．thī-nitea ñātikā．]
[ဉာတိ+က။ ထီ-၌ ဉာတိကာ။]
4) ñātikā (ဉာတိကာ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[ñātika+ā．]]amhākameva ñātī]]ti ñāyatīti ñāti,sāva ñātikā．kaṅkhā,ṭī,．3va1．]
[ဉာတိက+အာ။ ＂အမှာကမေဝ ဉာတီ＂တိ ဉာယတီတိ ဉာတိ၊ သာဝ ဉာတိကာ။ ကင်္ခါ၊ဋီ၊သစ်။၃ဝ၁။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) nātika—
(Burmese text): နာတိကရွာ၊ ဆွေမျိုးတို့၏ နေရာရွာ။
(Auto-Translation): Nadit village, the place of relatives.
2) ñātika—
(Burmese text): ဆွေမျိုး၊ ဆွေမျိုးတော်စပ်သူ။
(Auto-Translation): Relative, relative by marriage.
3) ñātika—
(Burmese text): ဆွေမျိုးတို့၏ရွာ၊ ဉာတိရွာ။
(Auto-Translation): The village of my relatives, Nyati Village.
4) ñātikā—
(Burmese text): ဆွေမျိုးတော်စပ်သော-မိန်းမ-ရဟန်းမ။
(Auto-Translation): Sister-in-law - nun.
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.
Sanskrit dictionary
Nāṭikā (नाटिका).—A short or light comedy, one of the Uparūpakas, q. v.; e. g. the Ratnāvalī, Priyadarśikā or Viddhaśālabañjikā. The S. D. thus defines it :-- नाटिका क्लृप्तवृत्ता स्यात् स्त्रीप्राया चतुरङ्किका । प्रख्यातो धीरललितस्तत्र स्यान्नायको नृपः ॥ स्यादन्तःपुरसंबन्धा संगीतव्यापृताऽथवा । नवानुरागा कन्याऽत्र नायिका नृपवंशजा ॥ संप्रवर्तेत नेतास्यां देव्यास्त्रासेन शङ्कितः । देवी पुनर्भवेज्ज्येष्ठा प्रगल्भा नृपवंशजा ॥ पदे पदे मानवती तद्वशः संगमो द्वयोः । वृत्तिः स्यात् कौशिकी स्वल्पविमर्शाः संधयः पुनः (nāṭikā klṛptavṛttā syāt strīprāyā caturaṅkikā | prakhyāto dhīralalitastatra syānnāyako nṛpaḥ || syādantaḥpurasaṃbandhā saṃgītavyāpṛtā'thavā | navānurāgā kanyā'tra nāyikā nṛpavaṃśajā || saṃpravarteta netāsyāṃ devyāstrāsena śaṅkitaḥ | devī punarbhavejjyeṣṭhā pragalbhā nṛpavaṃśajā || pade pade mānavatī tadvaśaḥ saṃgamo dvayoḥ | vṛttiḥ syāt kauśikī svalpavimarśāḥ saṃdhayaḥ punaḥ) || 539.
Naṭikā (नटिका).—= next, name of a yakṣiṇī: (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 565.1 (prose).
Nāṭikā (नाटिका).—f.
(-kā) A short or light comedy, the first of the Uparupakas or dramas of the second order. E. naṭ to dance, ṇvul aff.
1) Nāṭikā (नाटिका):—[from nāṭaka > nāṭa] a f. a kind of Upa-rūpaka or drama of the second order, [Sāhitya-darpaṇa] etc.
2) [v.s. ...] any show or representation, [Bālarāmāyaṇa vii, 76]
3) [v.s. ...] (in music) Name of a Rāgiṇī
4) [from nāṭa] b f. of ṭaka q.v.
Nāṭikā (नाटिका):—(kā) 1. f. A light comedy.
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.
Hindi dictionary
Nāṭikā (नाटिका):—(nf) diminutive of [nāṭaka]—a short play.
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Partial matches: Ika, Ka, Natika, A, Natti, Nadi.
Starts with: Nadika, Nadikapamana, Natikagamavasi, Natikai, Natikalahavupasamanavatthu, Natikalyana, Natikam, Natikama, Natikanamaka, Natikantam, Natikara, Natikarana, Natikarantai, Natikasanna, Natikasanni, Natikasutta, Natikatampu, Natikatha, Natikiya.
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Maha Buddhavamsa—The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Part 14 - The Buddha’s Discourse at Nātika Village < [Chapter 40 - The Buddha Declared the Seven Factors of Non-Decline for Rulers]
Part 27 - The Buddha looked back like a Noble Tusker < [Chapter 40 - The Buddha Declared the Seven Factors of Non-Decline for Rulers]
Part 15 - The Buddha’s Sojourn at The Mango Grove of Ambapālī at Vesālī < [Chapter 40 - The Buddha Declared the Seven Factors of Non-Decline for Rulers]
Gati in Theory and Practice (by Dr. Sujatha Mohan)
Importance of Gati in Uparūpakas < [Chapter 3 - Application of gati in Dṛśya-kāvyas]
Gati performed in Lāsyāṅgas < [Chapter 3 - Application of gati in Dṛśya-kāvyas]
Sanskrit dramas and their performance < [Chapter 3 - Application of gati in Dṛśya-kāvyas]
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
Page 733 < [Hindi-Bengali-English Volume 1]
Page 759 < [Hindi-Marathi-English Volume 1]
Page 191 < [Bengali-Hindi-English, Volume 3]
Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Acaranga-sutra (by Hermann Jacobi)
Glimpses of History of Sanskrit Literature (by Satya Vrat Shastri)
Chapter 16 - Introduction to the Sanskrit Dramas < [Section 4 - Classical Sanskrit literature]