Manavaka, Manava-ka, Māṇavaka, Mānavaka: 17 definitions
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In Hinduism
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature1) Māṇavaka (माणवक) refers to one of the 135 metres (chandas) mentioned by Nañjuṇḍa (1794-1868 C.E.) in his Vṛttaratnāvalī. Nañjuṇḍa was a poet of both Kannada and Sanskrit literature flourished in the court of the famous Kṛṣṇarāja Woḍeyar of Mysore. He introduces the names of these metres (e.g., Māṇavaka) in 20 verses.
2) Mānavaka (मानवक) refers to one of the 130 varṇavṛttas (syllabo-quantitative verse) dealt with in the second chapter of the Vṛttamuktāvalī, ascribed to Durgādatta (19th century), author of eight Sanskrit work and patronised by Hindupati: an ancient king of the Bundela tribe (presently Bundelkhand of Uttar Pradesh). A Varṇavṛtta (e.g., mānavaka) refers to a type of classical Sanskrit metre depending on syllable count where the light-heavy patterns are fixed.
Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.
Kavya (poetry)
Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of SriharsaMāṇavaka (माणवक) refers to 1) “a boy”, 2) “a kind of pearlstring”, and is mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 7.66.
Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.
In Jainism
Jain philosophy
Source: archive.org: Anekanta Jaya Pataka of Haribhadra SuriMānavaka (मानवक) has four meanings (1) a youngster, a lad, a boy (used contemptuously), (2) a dwarf, a little man, (3) a religious student, and (4) a pearl-necklace of sixteen or twenty strings.—Cf. Anekāntajayapatākā-prakaraṇa, a Śvetāmbara Jain philosophical work written by Haribhadra Sūri.—[Cf. Vol. I, P. 319, l. 28]—That the last meaning is inapplicable here is certain
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Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarymāṇavaka : (m.) a young man.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryMāṇavaka, (fr. māṇava) a young man, youth a Brahmin Miln. 101; in general: young, e.g. nāga° a young serpent J. III, 276; f. °ikā a Brahmin girl J. I, 290; Miln. 101; nāga° a young female serpent J. III, 275; DhA. III, 232. (Page 527)
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.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryMāṇavaka (माणवक).—
1) A youth, boy, lad, youngster (oft. used contemptuously).
2) A little man, dwarf; manikin; मायामाणवकं हरिम् (māyāmāṇavakaṃ harim) Bhāgavata 8.18.24.
3) A silly fellow.
4) A scholar, religious student.
5) A pearl-necklace of sixteen (or twenty or fortyeight) strings; ग्रीवाद्भुतैवावदुशोभितापि प्रसाधिता माणवकेन सेयम् (grīvādbhutaivāvaduśobhitāpi prasādhitā māṇavakena seyam) N.7.66.
-kam A kind of metre.
Derivable forms: māṇavakaḥ (माणवकः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryMānavaka (मानवक).—(sometimes written for Sanskrit māṇavaka, as Lalitavistara 101.9 and 108.5, all mss.; f. mānavikānāṃ, perhaps rather to Sanskrit mānava, mānavī, human being, Mahāvastu ii.432.4, used of king's wives), m. or nt., in Avadāna-śataka i.265.7 is, or corruptly represents, a word meaning peg, post, or the like, for hanging clothes: yena…sā yamalī (q.v.) krītā, tena mānavake sthāpitā Avadāna-śataka i.265.7; Tibetan cited by Speyer as gdaṅ, which (or gdaṅ bu, Mahāvyutpatti 9037) = carpaṭaka, q.v. The context proves that this is approximately right in meaning But Speyer's suggestion that we em. tenārambhaṇake (should be °mbaṇake, see ārambaṇaka) is improbable; that word seems to mean a different kind of peg, tho also rendered by Tibetan gdaṅ (bu). Could our word be related to AMg. māṇavaya, name of a divine ‘caitya-stambha’ (see [Ardha-Māgadhī Dictionary] s.v.)?
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryMāṇavaka (माणवक).—m.
(-kaḥ) 1. A child, a boy not exceeding sixteen years of age, a manikin. 2. A pupil, a scholar, a religious student. 3. A man, an ignorant or ridiculous man, a childish man. 4. A necklace of sixteen or twenty strings. 5. A species of the Anushtubh metre. E. kan added to the last.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryMāṇavaka (माणवक).—[māṇava + ka], m. A proper name, [Vikramorvaśī, (ed. Bollensen.)] 44, 12.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryMāṇavaka (माणवक).—[masculine] = [preceding]; [feminine] vikā lass, wench.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Māṇavaka (माणवक):—[from māṇava] m. a youth. lad, fellow (= [preceding]), [Gobhila-śrāddha-kalpa; Kāvya literature; Purāṇa] etc. (cf. mādhavyaand māyām)
2) [v.s. ...] a pupil, scholar, religious student, [Horace H. Wilson]
3) [v.s. ...] a pearl ornament of 16 ([according to] to [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] also of 20 or 48) strings, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā; Pañcadaṇḍacchattra-prabandha]
4) [from māṇava] n. a kind of metre, [Colebrooke] (also -krīḍa n. or -krīḍanaka n. -krīḍā, f. -krīḍitaka n.)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryMāṇavaka (माणवक):—(kaḥ) 1. m. A child, a manikin; a pupil; a childish man; a necklace of twenty strings
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Mānavaka (मानवक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Māṇavaga, Māṇavaya.
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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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusMāṇavaka (ಮಾಣವಕ):—
1) [noun] = ಮಾಣವ [manava].
2) [noun] a kind of necklace with sixteen, twenty or forty eight strings having pearls stringed in it.
3) [noun] (pros.) a metrical verse of four lines each having two groups of three syllables followeding by a short and a long ones (-uu, —u, u, -).
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Source: unoes: Nepali-English DictionaryMāṇavaka (माणवक):—n. 1. a youth; boy; lad; youngster; 2. a little man; dwarf; 3. a silly fellow; 4. a student; 5. a pearl-necklace of sixteen strings;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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