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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Sthālīpulākanyāya (स्थालीपुलाकन्याय).—m.

(-yaḥ) The maxim of the cooking-pot and the boiledrice. In a cooking-pot all the grains are equally moistened by the heated water and so when one knows that one grain is well-cooked he can draw the same inference as regards all others. From this fact the maxim is applied to cases where the condition of the whole is inferred from that of a part.

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

Sthālīpulākanyāya (स्थालीपुलाकन्याय):—[=sthālī-pulāka-nyāya] [from sthālī-pulāka > sthālī > sthal] m. the rule of b° rice in a c°-v° (id est. the inferring of the condition of a whole from that of a part, as of the good cooking of rice from tasting one grain), [Apte’s The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Sthālīpulākanyāya (ಸ್ಥಾಲೀಪುಲಾಕನ್ಯಾಯ):—[noun] (logic.) a maxim of a dish being cooked, in which one or a few grains are checked to know whether the entire quantity of grain is cooked properly or not, used to show that a sample represents the homogenous whole it is taken from.

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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: Sthali, Pulaka, Sthalipulaka, Nyaya.

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