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caraka: masculine vocative singular stem: caraka

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caraka

m. a wanderer, wandering religious student

caraka

m. a spy

caraka

m. a kind of ascetic

caraka

m. a kind of medicinal plant

caraka

m. Name of a muni- and physician (the Serpent-king śeṣa-, who was the recipient of the āyur-veda-;once on visiting the earth and finding it full of sickness he became moved with pity and determined to become incarnate as the son of a muni- for alleviating disease;he was called caraka- because he had visited the earth as a kind of spy or cara-;he then composed a new book on medicine, based on older works of agni-veśa- and other pupils of ātreya-

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caraka

m. Name of a lexicographer

caraka

m. plural (see

) Name of a branch of the black yajur-veda- (the practises and rites-enjoined by which are different in some respects from those in

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caraka

m. Name of an evil spirit

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caraka	m. wanderer; wandering Brâhman pupil; spy; N. of an ancient phy sician: pl. N. of a school of the black Yagur veda: -½adhvaryu, m. priest of the Karakas.

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caraka

primarily denotes a ‘ wandering student,’ a sense actually found in the Brhadāranyaka Upanisad. More especially it denotes the members of a school of the Black Yajurveda, the practices of which are several times referred to with disapproval in the Satapatha Brāhmana. In the Vājasaneyi Samhitā the Caraka teacher (Carakācārya) is enumerated among the sacrificial victims at the Purusamedha, or human sacrifice. His dedication there to ill-doing is a clear hint of a ritual feud.

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caraka	named the Carakas	SB 12.6.61

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caraka	noun (masculine) a kind of ascetic (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) a kind of medicinal plant (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) a spy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) a wanderer (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) name of a Muni and physician (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Oldenlandia corymbosa Linn. wandering religious student (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 6222/72933

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caraka	redactor of Agniveśa samhita; he was the court physician of the king Kanishka of Kushan dynasty, who reigned in the 1st and 2nd Century

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