Shalihotra, Śālihotra, Shali-hotra: 12 definitions
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Shalihotra means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Śālihotra can be transliterated into English as Salihotra or Shalihotra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र).—A muni of ancient days. Vyāsa had once lived in his āśrama. There was a tree near the āśrama which had outlived time. A drink of the water in the pond here quenches hunger and thirst. The tree and the pond were created by the power of Śālihotra’s tapas. The Pāṇḍavas, during their life in exile in the forest, visited this place in the company of Hiḍimbī and quenched their hunger and thirst by drinking water from this pond. (Mahābhārata, Southern text, Chapter 154). Śālihotra was an adept in aśvasastra (science about horses). To bathe in the tīrtha called Śālisūrya created by the muni is to derive the same result as that of making a gift of a thousand cows. (Vana Parva, Chapter 71, Verse 27 and Chapter 83, Verse 107).
1a) Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र).—A Śrutaṛṣi;1 composed six Samhitās.2
1b) A Vānara chief.*
- * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 7. 237.
1c) A son of Śrīli in the 24th dvāpara.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 23. 207.
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India history and geography
Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र) refers to one of the works ascribed to King Bhoja, according to Bisheshwar Nath Reu.—King Bhoja of Dhārā, one of the greatest rulers of India, ruled from 1018 to 1060 A.D. He was great in the art of Government and war, but still greater in the art of peace. He had earned immortal fame as a great patron of poets and men of letters and a mass of legends has grown about his name. He is reported to be the author of more than three dozen works [i.e., Śālihotra]. [...] Śrī Viśveśvara Nātha Reu has laboured very hard in his treatise on ‘Rājā Bhoja’ (publsihed by Hindustani Academy) in collecting all the available material on the subject to give an account of the life and works of Bhoja. He has given a list of the following thirty-four books ascribed to Rājā Bhoja of Dhārā [i.e., Śālihotra]
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Sanskrit dictionary
Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र).—
1) Name of a writer on veterinary subjects.
2) a horse.
-tram Śālihotra's work on veterinary science.
Derivable forms: śālihotraḥ (शालिहोत्रः).
Śālihotra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śāli and hotra (होत्र).
Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र).—m.
(-traḥ) 1. A horse. 2. Name of a writer on veterinary science. E. śāli rice, corn, and hotra an oblation; also with ini added śālihotrin m. (-trī) .
Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र).—m. 1. The name of a writer on veterinary medicine, [Nala] 19, 28; [Pañcatantra] 253. 22; 255, 4. 2. A horse.
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Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र).—see s. v.
Śālihotra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śāli and hotra (होत्र).
Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र).—[masculine] [Epithet] of the horse (lit. receiving rice-oblations); [Name] of an author on hippology, [neuter] his work.
1) Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—the general name for veterinary art, ascribed to Śālihotra Muni, for whom Nakula creates a father Aśvaghoṣa (Turaṅgaghoṣa). Ben. 64. Rādh. 33. 44. Oppert. 8288. Ii, 543. Bp. 274. Quoted by Hemādri in Vratakhaṇḍa 2, 982.
—gajalakṣaṇa. Oppert. 2813.
—by Bhojarāja. B. 2, 46. D 2.
2) Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र):—veterinary art, ascribed to a Muni Śālihotra, in eight sthāna. These are called Unnaya, Uttara, Śārīraka, Cikitsita, Kiśoracikitsā or Śiśubhaiṣajya, Uttarottara, Siddhisthāna, Rahasya. Io. 2536 (first sthāna). Stein 191 (where the fourth sthāna is wanting). 351. Burnell.'s Śālihotronnaya belongs hither.
1) Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र):—[=śāli-hotra] [from śāli] m. ‘receiving offerings of rice’, a poetical Name for a horse, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
2) [v.s. ...] Name of a Muni and writer on veterinary subjects, [Mahābhārata]
3) [v.s. ...] n. Śāli-hotra’s work on veterinary science
Śālihotra (शालिहोत्र):—[śāli-hotra] (traḥ) 1. m. A horse.
[Sanskrit to German]
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
Śālihōtra (ಶಾಲಿಹೋತ್ರ):—
1) [noun] a horse.
2) [noun] the science that studies various characteristics of, and the medicine dealing with the prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries in, horses.
3) [noun] name of a sage who was pioneer in, and who wrote a treatise on, this.
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Śāḷihōtra (ಶಾಳಿಹೋತ್ರ):—
1) [noun] a horse.
2) [noun] the science that studies various characteristics of, and the medicine dealing with the prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries in, horses.
3) [noun] name of a sage who was pioneer in, and who wrote a treatise on, this.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Partial matches: Hotra, Shali, Cali.
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