Vatakara, Vata-akara, Vaṭākara, Vatākara, Vaṭākāra: 10 definitions

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Vatakara means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, the history of ancient India. 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.

India history and geography

Vatākara (वताकर) is one of the historical name for Vasantagarh, situated eight Kms. to the south of Piṇḍwārā. The inscription of the seventh or eighth century A.D. engraved on the walls of this temple definitely proves its ancientry. Besides, a pair of images of Rīṣabhadeva (Ṛṣabhadeva) with the inscription of 687 A.D. has been discovered from under the ground.

Source: Jainworld: Jain History (h)
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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

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Vaṭākara, (probably distorted by metathesis from Sk. vaṭārakā. Fr. vaṭa rope. On etym. of the latter see Walde, Lat. Wtb. s. v. volvo) a rope, cable J. III, 478 (nāvā sa-vaṭākarā). (Page 594)

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

1) vaṭākara (ဝဋာကရ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[vaṭa+ā+kara+a.vaṭaṃ veṭhanaṃ ākarotīti.amara,ṭī.2,1va,27.]
[ဝဋ+အာ+ကရ+အ။ ဝဋံ ဝေဌနံ အာကရောတီတိ။ အမရ၊ ဋီ။ ၂၊ ၁ဝ၊ ၂၇။]

2) vaṭākāra (ဝဋာကာရ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[vaṭa+ākāra.vaṭo vuccati sivaṭo,tadākāratāya vaṭākāro,]]vaṭo kamadde (kapadde¿) nigrodhe]] ti hi nānatthasaṅgaho.ṭī.668.]
[ဝဋ+အာကာရ။ ဝဋော ဝုစ္စတိ သိဝဋော၊ တဒါကာရတာယ ဝဋာကာရော၊ "ဝဋော ကမဒ္ဒေ (ကပဒ္ဒေ¿) နိဂြောဓေ" တိ ဟိ နာနတ္ထသင်္ဂဟော။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၆၆၈။]

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

[Pali to Burmese]

1) vaṭākara—

(Burmese text): ကြိုး၊ ကျောက်ကြိုး၊ ရွက်ကြိုး။

(Auto-Translation): String, stone string, leaf string.

2) vaṭākāra—

(Burmese text): ဝဋာကရ-ကြည့်။

(Auto-Translation): Look at the awning.

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)
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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Vaṭākara (वटाकर).—A cord, string.

Derivable forms: vaṭākaraḥ (वटाकरः).

See also (synonyms): vaṭāraka.

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vaṭākara (वटाकर).—m.

(-raḥ) A cord, a rope, a string. E. vaṭa surrounding, ākara what makes, from kṛ to make, with āṅ prefix, and ṭac aff.

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

Vaṭākara (वटाकर).— (probably vaṭa -ākara, but see the next), m. A cord.

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

1) Vaṭākara (वटाकर):—[from vaṭa > vaṭ] m. a cord, string, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] (cf. vaṭāraka).

2) Vātakara (वातकर):—[=vāta-kara] [from vāta > vā] mfn. producing wind (in the body), causing flatulence, [Bhāvaprakāśa]

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

Vaṭākara (वटाकर):—[vaṭā+kara] (raḥ) 1. m. A cord or rope.

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

Vaṭākara (वटाकर):—m. v. l. für varāṭaka Strick, Seil [RĀMĀŚRAMA] zu [Amarakoṣa 2, 10, 27] nach [Śabdakalpadruma]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch
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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.

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