Shaushkala, Śauṣkala: 7 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śauṣkala can be transliterated into English as Sauskala or Shaushkala, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryŚauṣkala (शौष्कल).—
1) A vendor of flesh.
2) A habitual eater of flesh.
-lam The price of dried meat.
Derivable forms: śauṣkalaḥ (शौष्कलः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚauṣkala (शौष्कल).—mfn.
(-laḥ-lī-laṃ) 1. Eating fish and flesh. 2. A vender of flesh. n.
(-laṃ) The price of dried-meat. E. śuṣkalī dried flesh, aff. aṇ .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚauṣkala (शौष्कल).—i. e. śuṣkala + a, I. adj. Eating flesh. Ii. m. A vendor of flesh (ŚKd.).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Śauṣkala (शौष्कल):—mfn. ([from] śuṣkala) living on dried flesh or fish or by selling it ([according to] to some catching fish), [Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā]
2) m. Name of the chief priest of Rāvaṇa, [Anargharāghava]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚauṣkala (शौष्कल):—[(laḥ-lī-laṃ) a.] Eating fish and flesh. n. Price of dried meat.
[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
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusŚauṣkala (ಶೌಷ್ಕಲ):—
1) [noun] a man living on dried flesh or fish.
2) [noun] a man who sells dried flesh.
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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