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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Udghāṭaka (उद्घाटक).—

1) A key; उद्घाटको भवति यन्त्रदृढे कपाटे (udghāṭako bhavati yantradṛḍhe kapāṭe) Mṛcchakaṭika 3. 16.

2) The rope and bucket of a well. (-kam also).

Derivable forms: udghāṭakaḥ (उद्घाटकः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Udghaṭaka (उद्घटक).—m. (see also udghāṭaka, ghaṭaka; twice recorded udghaṭṭaka in mss.), lit. one who opens or reveals, i.e. explains (science or techniques; so Leumann, cited by Wogihara, Lex. 19); in cliché (aṣṭāsu parīkṣāsu, not in 100.5) udghaṭako vācakaḥ paṇḍitaḥ paṭupracāraḥ (…) saṃvṛttaḥ Divyāvadāna 3.19; 26.14; 58.20; 100.5 (in the last two udghaṭṭakaḥ); same cliché reading ghaṭako for udgh° Divyāvadāna 442.1; 523.25; and with udghāṭako Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.133.3; iii.20.2; he became an expounder, explainer, scholar, one of skillful performance (in the ‘eight testings’ of valuable things).

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Udghāṭaka (उद्घाटक).—m. (adj.?), = udghaṭaka, q.v., one who reveals or expounds: Divyāvadāna 329.20 śāsanakoṭim udghāṭako, one who explains the height of the religious doctrine; Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya i.133.3; iii.20.2.

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

Udghāṭaka (उद्घाटक).—mn.

(-kaḥ-kaṃ) 1. A key. 2. A bucket, &c. see the next. 3. An opener, the instrument or agent of opening anything.

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

Udghāṭaka (उद्घाटक).—i. e. ud-ghaṭ + aka, m. A key, [Mṛcchakaṭikā, (ed. Stenzler.)] 48, 5.

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

Udghāṭaka (उद्घाटक).—[masculine] opener, key.

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

1) Udghāṭaka (उद्घाटक):—[=ud-ghāṭaka] [from ud-ghaṭ] m. a key, [Mṛcchakaṭikā]

2) [v.s. ...] n. a leather bucket used for drawing up water, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) Udghātaka (उद्घातक):—[=ud-ghātaka] [from ud-dhan] n. a dialogue carried on in short abrupt but significant words, [Pratāparudrīya; Daśarūpa]

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

Udghāṭaka (उद्घाटक):—[ud-ghāṭaka] (kaḥ-kaṃ) 1. m. n. A key; a bucket; an opener.

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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

Udghāṭaka (ಉದ್ಘಾಟಕ):—

1) [noun] a man who begins, opens, formally inaugurates anything.

2) [noun] an instrument, usually of metal, for moving the bolt of a lock and thus locking or unlocking something; a key.

3) [noun] a device to draw water from below (as from a well etc.); a wheel, a rope, a bucket etc. used for that purpose.

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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.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Udghātaka (उद्घातक):—adj. 1. a person who inaugurates; 2. a person who discloses a secret;

context information

Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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Partial matches: Ghataka, Ud.

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