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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vanīpaka (वनीपक).—A beggar, mendicant; वनीयकानां स हि कल्पभूरुहः (vanīyakānāṃ sa hi kalpabhūruhaḥ) N.15.6; Śiśupālavadha 14.48.

Derivable forms: vanīpakaḥ (वनीपकः).

See also (synonyms): vanīyaka.

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

Vaṇīpaka (वणीपक).—(only Mahāvastu ii.100.4; 182.4, 9; also text iii.254.18 but without ms. support), otherwise van° (Sanskrit vaṇīpaka and °yaka, one of them certainly a graphic [Page469-a+ 71] variant for the other; I have no doubt that °paka should always be read; in Vikramac. [Manuscript Remains of Buddhist literature found in Eastern Turkestan] 29.35 all mss. °paka; in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] °yaka recorded only Divyāvadāna 83.19; compare Pali vaṇib- baka, AMg. vaṇīmaga, °maya, supporting °paka), beggar, mendicant: sometimes mendicant monk, e.g. Asthisena vanīpaka Mahāvastu iii.419.4; once used in reference to a snake- charmer, in a way which I do not understand (it suggests snake-charmer as another meaning of the word, perhaps because they are a sort of wandering beggars?), hastatvam āgacche (subject, a nāga, captured by a snake-charmer) vaṇīpaka- sya Mahāvastu ii.182.4, 9; usually the last of a quartette, śramaṇa, brāhmaṇa, kṛpaṇa, vanīp° (as recipients of alms), often in a [compound], Lalitavistara 430.19; Mahāvastu ii.100.4; iii.41.17; 43.8; 44.19; Jātakamālā 15.4; Avadāna-śataka i.198.11; same with omission of kṛpaṇa, Mahāvastu i.188.14 (here Senart vanīyakaṃ, but all mss. °pakaṃ); iii.254.18; without śramaṇa, brāhmaṇa, but with kṛpaṇa (and usually other near-synonyms) Divyāvadāna 83.19 (vanīy°); 319.4; Jātakamālā 105.14; alone, Divyāvadāna 414.18 (v.l. °pagaḥ); Jātakamālā 7.10.

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Vanīpaka (वनीपक) or Vanīyaka.—q.v.

Vanīpaka can also be spelled as Vaṇīpaka (वणीपक).

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

Vanīpaka (वनीपक):—[from van] ([cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] and, [Siṃhāsana-dvātriṃśikā or vikramāditya-caritra, jaina recension] [varia lectio]) m. a beggar, mendicant.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Vanīpaka (वनीपक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Vaṇīmaga, Vaṇīmaya.

[Sanskrit to German]

Vanipaka in German

context information

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

Vanīpaka (ವನೀಪಕ):—[noun] a man who begs or asks for charity; a man who lives by begging; a beggar.

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Ends with: Avanipaka.

Full-text: Vaniyaka, Vanimaga, Vanimaya, Asthisena, Vaṇibbaka, Vanika, Ubbilavita.

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