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Yoga (school of philosophy)

Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birch

Pratāraka (प्रतारक) refers to a “deceiver”, according to the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with meditation, absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Vāmadeva: “[...] [Those] gurus who transfer the no-mind [state] to good students and [thereby] stop [any] pleasure derived from the senses, are praiseworthy. The others are [just] deceivers (pratāraka). When the highest reality is revealed by the guru, [the Yogin] becomes instantly absorbed in it. Having liberated the self by the self, he is certainly liberated. [...]”.

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Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

pratāraka (प्रतारक).—a S That cheats, tricks, deceives.

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

pratāraka (प्रतारक).—a That cheats, tricks, deceives.

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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

Pratāraka (प्रतारक).—A cheat, an impostor.

Derivable forms: pratārakaḥ (प्रतारकः).

See also (synonyms): pratārin.

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

Pratāraka (प्रतारक).—m.

(-kaḥ) A cheat. E. pra before, tṛ to cross, aff. ṇic-ṇvul .

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

Pratāraka (प्रतारक).—i. e. pra-tṛ10 + ika, adj. Cheating, Böhtl. Ind. Spr. 3328.

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

Pratāraka (प्रतारक).—[adjective] deceiving; [masculine] deceiver.

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

Pratāraka (प्रतारक):—[=pra-tāraka] [from pra-tṝ] mfn. cheating, deceitful, a deceiver, [Bhartṛhari; Vikramāṅkadeva-carita, by Bilhaṇa]

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

Pratāraka (प्रतारक):—[pra-tāraka] (kaḥ) 1. m. A cheat.

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

Pratāraka (प्रतारक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Patāraga, Pattaraka.

[Sanskrit to German]

Prataraka 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

Pratāraka (ಪ್ರತಾರಕ):—[noun] a man who habitually cheats others; a cheat; a fraud.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Pra, Taraka.

Ends with: Svaparaprataraka, Viprataraka.

Full-text: Sancat, Pratarin, Pattaraka, Pataraga, Svaparaprataraka, Viprataraka, Deceiver, Mayavasika.

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