Raukshya, Raukṣya: 11 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Raukṣya can be transliterated into English as Rauksya or Raukshya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of termsRaukṣya (रौक्ष्य):—Dryness
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryraukṣya (रौक्ष्य).—n S Roughness, dryness, harshness, austereness. See for full explanation and illustration the adjective rukṣa.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishraukṣya (रौक्ष्य).—n Roughness, dryness.
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 dictionaryRaukṣya (रौक्ष्य).—
1) Hardness, dryness, aridity.
2) Roughness, harshness, cruelty; प्रतिषेधरौक्ष्यम् (pratiṣedharaukṣyam) R.5.58; निदेश° (nideśa°) 14.58.
3) Poverty; अकल्ककस्य विप्रस्य रौक्ष्यात् करकृतात्मनः (akalkakasya viprasya raukṣyāt karakṛtātmanaḥ) Mahābhārata (Bombay) 13.23.53.
Derivable forms: raukṣyam (रौक्ष्यम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryRaukṣya (रौक्ष्य).—n.
(-kṣyaṃ) 1. Roughness, ruggedness. 2. Harshness, unkindness. E. rukṣa hard, ṣyañ aff.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryRaukṣya (रौक्ष्य).—i. e. rūkṣa + ya, n. Roughness, hardness, [Raghuvaṃśa, (ed. Stenzler.)] 5, 58.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryRaukṣya (रौक्ष्य).—[neuter] roughness, harshness.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Raukṣya (रौक्ष्य):—[from raukṣa-citta] n. ([from] rūkṣa) roughness, hardness, dryness, aridity, [Yājñavalkya; Suśruta]
2) [v.s. ...] harshness, cruelty, uncouthness, [Mahābhārata; Raghuvaṃśa]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryRaukṣya (रौक्ष्य):—(kṣyaṃ) 1. n. Roughness.
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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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