शकार

{ śakārḥ }

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

 पु. राजशालक ; राजाच्या रखेलीचा भाऊ . - मृ . केवळ नात्यामुळें थोर अधिकार असणारा . २ ( ल . ) मूर्ख , आढयतेखोर व दुष्ट मनुष्य . [ सं . ]

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

श—कार  m.  1. m. (for 2. See p.1045) the letter or sound श, [Prāt.]

ROOTS:

श कार

शकार  m.  2. m. (for 1. See under 1. श) a descendant of the शकs, a शक, [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. 4-1, 130]
a king's brother-in-law through one of his inferior wives ( esp. in the drama represented as a foolish, frivolous, proud, low, and cruel man, such as is संस्थानक in the मृच्छकटिका, he speaks the dialect of the शकs i.e. शाकारी, which employs the sibilant श्, exclusively ; hence शकार accord. to some, is for, ‘ श-कार’, one who uses the letter श), [Bhar.]; [Daś.]; [Sāh. &c.]
शकार    a 1. 2. See under 1. श and 3. शक.

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

शकारः [śakārḥ]   The brother of a king's concubine, the brother-in-law of a king by a wife not regularly married (अनूढाऊभ्रातृ); (he is usually represented as a strange mixture of pride, folly, and vanity, of low family, and raised to power by reason of his relation to the king. In the Mṛichchhakaṭika of Śūdraka where he plays a prominent part, his characters is well exhibited in his lightness and frivolity of spirit, vain-glory, constant reference to his high connection, his blundering and ludicrous folly, but withal cruelty enough to throttle the heroine when she refused to yield to his desire; [S. D.] thus defines him: मदमूर्खताभिमानी दुष्कुल- तैश्वर्यसंयुक्तः । सोऽयमनूढाभ्राता राज्ञः श्यालः शकार इत्युक्तः ॥ 81.

Shabda-Sagara

शकार  m.  ( -रः)
1. A silly brother-in-law of a Rājā.
2. The brother of a king's concubine.