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Definition[1]
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Alaŋkāra [fr. alankaroti, cp. Vedic araṅkṛti] "getting up" i. e. fitting out, ornament, decoration; esp. trinkets, ornaments D iii.190; A iii.239; 263 sq.; J vi.368; PvA 23, 46, 70 ( -- ˚ adj. adorned with), 74; Sdhp 249.
Source
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Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,
Definition[2]
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○kārá m. the act of decorating, R ii, 40, 13, (ifc. f. R. 18, 6) ornament, decoration ŚBr. TBr. &c. (in rhetoric) an ornament of the sense or the sound (cf. arthâl○ and śabdâl○)
• (ataṃkāra) -kārikā f. -kaustubha m. -candrika f. -cūḍāmaṇi m. mañjari, -mala, -muksâvalī, different works on rhetoric
• -vatī f. 'the decorated one', N. of the ninth Lambaka in the Kathāsaritsāgara,
Source
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Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William
Related
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alaṃkāraka , alaṃkaraṇa , alaṃkaraṇin , alaṃkariṣṇu , alaṃkarmiṇa , alaṃkammaniya , alaṃkāla , alaṃjuṣa , alaṃjīvika , alaṃgāmin