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क्रौष्टुकि (krauSTuki)

 
Apte
English
क्रौष्टुकिः [krauṣṭukiḥ],
N.
 of a grammarian
of an astrologer.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
क्रौष्टुकि
m.
 patr.
fr.
 क्रोष्टुक
N.
 of a grammarian,
Nir.
 viii, 2
Bṛh.
of an astrologer,
AV.
 Pariś.
VarBṛS.
 i, 11, Sch.
m.
pl.
N.
 of a warrior-tribe belonging to the Trigarta-ṣaṣṭhas,
Pāṇ.
 v, 3, 116
Kār.
Monier Williams 1872
English
क्रौष्टुकि क्रौष्टुकि, इस्, m. (a patronymic
fr. क्रोष्टुक), N. of a grammarian
N. of an
astrologer
N. of a warrior-tribe belonging to the
Trigarta-ṣaṣṭhās.
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
क्रौष्टुकि grammarian. Quoted by Yāska 8, 3.
क्रौष्टुकि a son of Garga. Bhaṭṭotpala on Bṛhatsaṃhitā
1, 9. See Gargasaṃhitā.
क्रौष्टुकि on metres. Quoted by Piṅgala. Ind. Studien
8, 243.
Vedic Reference
English
Krauṣṭuki, ‘descendant of Kroṣṭuka, ’ is mentioned as a
grammarian in the Nirukta, ^1 the Bṛhaddevatā, ^2 and the
Chandas, ^3 but as an astrologer in a Pariśiṣṭa of the Athar-
vaveda.^4
1) viii. 2.
2) iv. 137. Cf. Indische Studien, 1, 105.
3) 5.
4) Weber, Berlin Catalogue of San-
skrit MSS., 1, 94. See Bolling and
von Negelein. The Pariśiṣṭas of the
Atharvaveda, 2, 438 et seq., where in
Pariśiṣṭa lxviii (Svapnādhyāyaḥ), i. 2
ii. 8, the name appears as Kroṣṭuki.
Cf. Weber, Jyotiṣa, 12
Indian Litera-
ture, 61.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
क्रौष्टुकि पुंस्त्री० क्रोष्टेव स्वार्थे क तस्यापत्यम् इञ् । १ क्रोष्टु-कर्षेरपत्ये स्त्रियां ङीप् । २ ऋषिभेदे
पु०
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