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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Saudhika (सौधिक).—A Bhārgava gotrakāra.^*

• * Matsya-purāṇa 195. 22.

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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.

Shilpashastra (iconography)

Source: Google Books: Papers on Art and Epigraphy

Saudhika (सौधिक) or Saudhikāgama is an unpublished Sanskrit text of encyclopaedic nature on Orissan temple architecture, town planning and iconography comprising about 4457 verses divided into nine chapters.—The Saudhikāgama is quoted for the first time in the Śilpa Prakāśa, a medieval text on Orissan Temple architecture. It is currently available only in two palm-leaf manuscripts in Oriya script, one from Purulia and the other from Dharakot. The term saudha refers to a great mansion or palace, a large house, a white washed mansion, or a stuccoed house. According to the Abhidhānacintāmaṇi (4.58) and Amarakoṣa (1.10) saudha denotes a palace. According to Prof. V.S. Agrawala (in his preface to the Śilpa Prakāśa): “The word saudha seems here to be taken in the sense of temple or shrine and the title saudhika seems to correspond to the title salāṭa in Saurāṣṭra, which means a stone worker”.

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Shilpashastra (शिल्पशास्त्र, śilpaśāstra) represents the ancient Indian science (shastra) of creative arts (shilpa) such as sculpture, iconography and painting. Closely related to Vastushastra (architecture), they often share the same literature.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Śaudhikā (शौधिका).—f.

(-kā) A white variety of panic-seed. E. śodhaḥ śodhana malavirekastasmai hitaḥ ṭhak .

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

Śaudhikā (शौधिका):—f. incorrect for śodhikā (See under śodhaka).

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

Śaudhikā (शौधिका):—(kā) 1. f. A white variety of panic seed.

[Sanskrit to German]

Saudhika 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.

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