Ushtradhumaka, Uṣṭradhūmaka: 1 definition
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Ushtradhumaka means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. 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 Uṣṭradhūmaka can be transliterated into English as Ustradhumaka or Ushtradhumaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryUṣṭradhūmaka (उष्ट्रधूमक).—(m.?), lit. camel-smoke, a kind of worm, cause of calamities: Kāśyapa Parivarta 93.2 yasmiṃ…deśe °ka kṛṣṇaśira uttānaśāyī bhavati, sa deśa sopadravaḥ…Tibetan srin bu rṅa mo dud ka zhes bya ba, the worm called camel- smoke. See [Tibetan-English Dictionary] s.v. rṅa mo ṅud (mistake for dud) ka, where full confirmation of the Kāśyapa Parivarta passage is found.
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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