Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

modaka मोदक – sweetmeat; confection

adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

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AYI dictionary substantive masculine

sweetmeat; confection

Cappeller 1891 adjective

Original text · English · adjective

modaka ·a. delighting (--°); m. n. small round comfit, smeetmeat.

Monier-Williams 1872 Word type unspecified

Original text · English · Word type unspecified

Modaka, as, ā or ī, am, delighting, rejoicing, pleasing, gladdening, exhilarating, causing happiness or delight; glad, cheerful; (as, am), m. n. a small round sweetmeat or a sweetmeat in general; (in medicine) a sort of pill; (as), m. a particular mixed caste (the son of a Kṣatriya by a Śūdra mother); (am), n. a kind of metre, four times ¯˘˘¯˘˘¯ ˘˘¯˘˘¯; (ī), f., N. of a particular mythical club or weapon.

Petersburger 1855 adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

modaka (wie eben) 1〉 adj. = harṣuka H. an. 3,84. MED. k. 141. eher froh, heiter als erfreuend, wie WILSON hat; die transitive Bed. kravyādagaṇa˚ MBH. 7,1576 nach der Lesart der Bomb. Ausg. — 2〉 m.n. gaṇa ardharcādi zu P. 2,4,31. SIDDH. K. 249,a,1. AK. 3,6,4,33. kleines rundes Confect; auch Arzeneistoffe in Form süsser Pasten oder Pillen, H. ś. 96. H. an. MED. YĀJÑ. 1,288. MBH. 7,2309. MBH. 12,1410. MBH. 13,2771. MBH. 14,1890. HARIV. 16197. R. 1,9,35 (R. 1,9,34 GORR.). R. GORR. 1,9,37. R. GORR. 6,97,19. R. GORR. 6,112,38. SUŚR. 1,107,6. SUŚR. 1,161,18. SUŚR. 1,165,12. SUŚR. 1,234,13. ŚĀRṄG. SAṂH. 2,7,1. VIKR. 45,13. Spr. 2247. Spr. 4419. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 59,8. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 89,1. KATHĀS. 6,115. KATHĀS. 65,186. KATHĀS. 65,191. MĀRK. P. 50,92. PAÑCAR. 1,3,47. PAÑCAR. 1,10,16 (nur hier n.). Verz. d. Oxf. H. 155,b. 43. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 155,46. āśāmodakairiyaṃ tṛptirmūrkhāṇām PRAB. 29,1. P. 1,4,33, Sch. Vgl. moṭaka. — 3〉 m. eine best. Mischlingskaste, der Sohn eines Kṣatriya und einer Śūdrā RĀJAN. nach der SMṚTI. — 4〉 wohl n. ein best. Metrum, 4 Mal – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ COLEBR. Misc. Ess. II, 160 (COLEBR. Misc. Ess. VII, 29). — 5〉 f. ī N. einer mythischen Keule R. 1,29,8. kaumodakī R. GORR. 1,30,9. — Vgl. āsya˚ (in den Nachträgen), khaṇḍa˚, ḍiṇḍira˚, madana˚, mātṛ˚, mukha˚, mudga˚, 2. maudaka, maudakika.

Böhtlingk 1879 adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

Original text · German · adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

modaka — 1〉 Adj. am Ende eines Comp. erfreuend MBH. 7,36,38. — 2〉 m. n. kleines rundes Confect (MĀN. GṚHY. 2,6); auch Arzeneistoffe in Form süsser Pasten oder Pillen Mat. med. 11. RĀJAN. 14,106. 18. BHĀVAPR. 2,25. — 3〉 m. eine best. Mischlingskaste, der Sohn eines Kṣatriya und einer Śūdrā — 4〉 f. ī N. pr. einer mythischen Keule. — 5〉 n. ein best. Metrum.

Apte 1890 adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

Original text · English · adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

modaka a. (kā, -kī f.) [modayati mudṇic ṇvul] 1 Pleasing, delighting, gladdening. 2 Glad, delighted. — kaḥ, — kaṃ A sweetmeat in general; Y. 1. 289. — kaḥ N. of a mixed tribe (sprung from a Kṣatriya father and a Śūdra mother). Comp. — kāraḥ a confectioner.

Cappeller 1887 Word type unspecified

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

modaka erfreuend (—˚); m. n. Konfekt, Leckerbissen.

Burnouf 1866 adjective

Original text · French · adjective

modaka a. qui réjouit, qui égaie. — S. m. n. sorte de confitures.

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