Saukhasuptika: 6 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Saukhasuptika (सौखसुप्तिक).—[sukhasuptiṃ mukhena śayanaṃ pṛcchati ṭhañ]

1) One who asks another person whether he has slept well.

2) A bard whose duty it is to waken a king or any other great personage with song and music; भ्रमरा (bhramarā)... गुञ्जन्तः प्रतिकमलं प्रबभुः सौखप्रसुप्तिका इव ते (guñjantaḥ pratikamalaṃ prababhuḥ saukhaprasuptikā iva te) Cholachampū p.29, verse 67.

Derivable forms: saukhasuptikaḥ (सौखसुप्तिकः).

See also (synonyms): saukhaprasuptika.

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

Saukhasuptika (सौखसुप्तिक).—m.

(-kaḥ) A bard, a minstrel, one whose duty is to waken the prince in the morning with music. E. sukhasupta sleeping pleasantly, and ṭhañ aff.

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

Saukhasuptika (सौखसुप्तिक).—i. e. sukha -supti + ika, m. A bard who wakes a prince in the morning with music and song.

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

Saukhasuptika (सौखसुप्तिक):—[=saukha-suptika] [from saukha] m. idem, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Saukhasuptika (सौखसुप्तिक):—(kaḥ) 1. m. A bard, a minstrel who wakes the prince in the morning.

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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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