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सौवर्णिक (sauvarNika)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
सौवर्णिक - sauvarNika -
adj.
- weighing or worth a su-varNa
सौवर्णिक - sauvarNika -
m.
- goldsmith
सौवर्णिक - sauvarNika -
m.
- worker in gold
Apte
English
सौवर्णिक [sauvarṇika],
a.
Made of gold
Pratimā 1. -कः A goldsmith.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
सौवर्णिक
mfn.
weighing or worth a Su-varṇa (ifc. after a numeral
=
‘w° a partic. number of S°’),
Hcat.
सौवर्णिक
m.
a worker in gold, goldsmith,
Campak.
Monier Williams 1872
English
सौवर्णिक, weighing a Su-varṇa (at the end of
a comp., e. g. चतुः-स्°, weighing four Su-varṇas).
Benfey
English
ऽसौवर्णिक -सौवर्णिक, i. e. सु-वर्ण
(see वर्ण), + इक, in चतुःसौवर्णिक,
i. e.
चतुर्-,
adj.
Weighing four सुवर्-
णस् (see the last), Man. 8, 137.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
sauvarṇika, adj. (AMg. sovaṇṇiya
Childers cites Pali sovaṇṇika, only from Senartʼs Kacc.
to Skt. suvarṇa plus -ika
= prec.), golden: °kena hemajālena Mv 〔i.196.5〕 (prose).
Indian Epigraphical Glossary
English
Sauvarṇika (HD), cf. Prakrit Sovaṇika (EI 10), a gold-
smith
the State goldsmith. See Hist. Dharm., Vol. III, pp.
144-45. See Hairaṇyika, etc.
sauvarṇika (HRS), profits of the royal monopoly of manu-
facture of gold and silver articles, as indicated by the Arthaśāstra.