Muktika, Muktikā: 6 definitions
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Muktika means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Wisdom Library: The Matsya-purāṇaMuktikā (मुक्तिका) is the name of a mind-born ‘divine mother’ (mātṛ), created for the purpose of drinking the blood of the Andhaka demons, according to the Matsya-purāṇa 179.8. The Andhaka demons spawned out of every drop of blood spilled from the original Andhakāsura (Andhaka-demon). According to the Matsya-purāṇa 179.35, “Most terrible they (e.g., Muktikā) all drank the blood of those Andhakas and become exceedingly satiated.”
The Matsyapurāṇa is categorised as a Mahāpurāṇa, and was originally composed of 20,000 metrical verses, dating from the 1st-millennium BCE. The narrator is Matsya, one of the ten major avatars of Viṣṇu.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexMuktikā (मुक्तिका).—A mother goddess.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 179. 30.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryMuktikā (मुक्तिका).—(1) adj., f. of muktaka (which is used at least once in Sanskrit in this sense, [Boehtlingk and Roth] s.v.), isolated, unaccompanied: with jñapti, Bhikṣuṇī-karmavācanā 15b.3, or jñāpti, Mahāvyutpatti 8659, qq.v., isolated motion, unaccompanied by (one or three) supplementary questions (contrasts in Mahāvyutpatti with jñāpti-dvitīyam and °caturtham, explained s.v. jñapti): = Tibetan gsol ba gcig pu, isolated question (demand, proposal). Seems not recorded in Pali; (2) pearl (so Sanskrit Lex., compare Sanskrit muktā, mauktika): Mahāvyutpatti 5952; -maṇi- °kasya (in nt. sg. dvandva) Saddharmapuṇḍarīka 88.11 (verse). Cf. lohita-m°.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMuktikā (मुक्तिका):—[from muc] f. a pearl, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
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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.
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Starts with: Muktikalasha, Muktikallu, Muktikama, Muktikami, Muktikankshin, Muktikantavilasa, Muktikarana, Muktikaranatva, Muktikopanishad.
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Full-text: Lohamuktika, Adhimuktika, Muktikopanishad, Amuktika, Lohitamuktika, Muktaka, Shrivatsamuktikanandyavartalakshitapanipadatalata, Muktikopakhyana, Jabalin, Muttikam, Jabalopanishad, Kenopaniṣad, Kaivalya, Lohitamukti, Lohitamukta, Mundakopanishad, Prashnopanishad, Jnapti, Brihadaranyakopanishad.
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Search found 17 books and stories containing Muktika, Muktikā; (plurals include: Muktikas, Muktikās). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Karmic Astrology—a Study (by Sunita Anant Chavan)
Part 4.1 - Ideology in the Vedāṅga Period < [Chapter 3 - Development of Jyotiḥśāstra and Karman in the Literature]
Brahma Purana (critical study) (by Surabhi H. Trivedi)
30. Women and their description, toilet etc. < [Marriage, Family and Position of Women]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 1 - The place of the Upaniṣads in Vedic literature < [Chapter III - The Earlier Upaniṣads (700 B.c.— 600 B.c.)]
Part 20 - The Cognitive Process and some characteristics of Citta < [Chapter VII - The Kapila and the Pātañjala Sāṃkhya (yoga)]
Thirty minor Upanishads (by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar)
The concept of Oneness in the Upanishads (study) (by Chandra Shekhar Upadhyaya)
Classification of the Upaniṣad < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
Women in the Atharva-veda Samhita (by Pranab Jyoti Kalita)
4. Recensions of the Atharvaveda < [Chapter 1 - The Atharvaveda and its importance in the Vedic Literature]
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