Niruktakara, Niruktakāra, Nirukta-kara: 5 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryNiruktakāra (निरुक्तकार).—Name of the sage Yāska.
Derivable forms: niruktakāraḥ (निरुक्तकारः).
Niruktakāra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms nirukta and kāra (कार).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumNiruktakāra (निरुक्तकार) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—a commentator on the Meghadūta. Quoted by Mallinātha Oxf. 126^a.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryNiruktakāra (निरुक्तकार):—[=nir-ukta-kāra] [from nir-ukta] m. Name of [Scholiast or Commentator] on [Meghadūta] (quoted by, [Mallinātha])
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