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चीरक (cIraka)

 
Apte
English
चीरकः [cīrakḥ], 1 A manner of writing, see चीर above.
eye-fly (Mar. केंबरें)
क्रौञ्चो जीवति वर्षं तु ततो जायति चीरकः
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Apte 1890
English
चीरकः A manner of writing, see चीर above.
Monier Williams 1872
English
चीरक, अस्, m. a manner of writing. See above.
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
चीरक
पदविभागः - > नपुंसकलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > चीर ಪದದ ಅರ್ಥ
निष्पत्तिः - > स्वार्थे "कः"
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
cīraka, m. or nt. (in mg. 1 = Pali id., Skt. cīra),
(1) strip, primarily of cloth, bark, or the like: °ka-vadhrāṇi, here of strips of flesh, Mv 〔i.19.9〕 (prose)
of either cloth or bark garments, 〔i.19.11〕 (prose), see vārṣikā
(2) in Mmk, lock or braid of hair, artificially arranged (compared to a strip) = Tib. (skra, hair) zur phud (hair-knot), Lalou, Iconographie 〔66 f.〕 (but I do not think, with Lalou, that this or any cpd. ever refers to a diadem)
Mañjuśrīʼs head is adorned with five such, but some passages suggest that in this he was like an ordinary youth in festive garb, sarvabālālaṃkārabhūṣitaḥ (ed. °ta-)pañcacīrakopaśobhitaḥ Mmk 〔41.24〕
pañcacīrakopaśobbhita-(text °taṃ) [Page231-b] śiraṃ bāladārakālaṃkārālaṃkṛtaṃ 〔305.6〕
(kumārākāracihnitaḥ) pañcacīrakamūrdhāno 〔436.3〕
note especially pañcacīrakopaśobhitaṃ ekacīrakopaśobhitaṃ śikhopaśobhita-śiraskaṃ (so read for text °bhitaṃ aśiraskaṃ!) vā rājaputraṃ mūrdhābhiṣiktaṃ kṣatriyaputraṃ vā … 〔49.13〕 (the youth symbolizes Mañjuśrī, cf. 〔49.16 f.〕)
Mañjuśrī is pañcacīrakopaśobhitaḥ 〔41.24〕
with more specific reference to his head, pañcacīrakaśiraskaḥ 〔62.8〕
similarly 〔68.16〕
〔75.14〕
(3) also in Mmk, cīraka-mudrā is a position of the two hands, interlocked, in which one index finger is made to project (muktvā) between the two thumbs, so that it resembles a hair-braid: (anyonyasaktāṅgulimuṣṭayoḥ pradeśinīṃ muktvā aṅguṣṭhayugalaṃ [prob. read °la-]madhyataḥ, eṣā sā Mañjuśrīḥ) tvadīyā aparā cīraka-mudrā 〔382.(15—)17〕
prob. this is alluded to by ekacīrakam (sc. mudram
see s.v. mudra) 〔355.27〕, also sacred to Mañjuśrī
its description in 〔382.15 ff.〕 occurs in a list of mudrās the names of which refer (presumably because of their shape) to various parts of Mañjuśrīʼs body, e.g. tvadīyā vaktramudrā 〔382.11〕, etc. (note esp. 〔383.1 ff.〕 śravaṇo grīvā bhujau etc., without specific descriptions).
पुराणम्
English
चीरक / CĪRAKA. A place of habitation in ancient india. Once karṇa conquered this land and from then onwards they started paying tribute to duryodhana. (Śloka 19, Chapter 8, karṇa Parva).
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
चीरकः,
पुं,
 (चीर + संज्ञायां कन् ।) विक्रिया-लेखः । विकारलेखनम् । इति विश्वः ॥
(स्वार्थे-कनि चीरशब्दार्थोऽप्यत्र ॥
)
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
चीरक
न०
 चीर + संज्ञायाम् कन् । विकारलेखने विश्वः । स्वार्थे क । चीरशब्दार्थे