ज्योतिष्क

{ jyotiṣka }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

A peak of mount Sumeru. [M.B. Śānti Parva, Chapter 283, Stanza 5] .
JYOTIṢKA   A famous serpent born to Kaśyapa by his wife Kadrū. [M.B. Udyoga Parva, Chapter 203, Stanza 15] .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

ज्योतिष्क  m.  m. Premna spinosa, [Suśr. iv]
Plumbago zeylanica, [L.]
the seed of Trigonella foenum graecum, [L.]
°तिक    N. of a नाग ( cf.), [MBh. v, 3631]
of a man, [Buddh.] ( [Divyâv. xix])
pl. ‘the luminaries’ regarded as a class of deities (arranged under 5 heads, viz. sun, moon, the planets, fixed stars, and lunar mansions), [Jain.]
ज्योतिष्क  n.  n. N. of a luminous weapon (with which अर्जुन destroyed तमस्), [MBh. vii, 1325] ( ज्यौतिष, B)
N. of a bright peak of मेरु, xii, 10212

Shabda-Sagara

ज्योतिष्क  m.  ( -ष्कः)
1. A planetary or heavenly body; the generic term for the sun, the moon, a planet, an asterism, a star: the word in the m. plu. ( -ष्काः) implies all these five.
2. A tree, the wood of which is used to produce fire by attribution: see गणिकारिका f. ( -का) Heart-pea: see ज्योतिष्मती.
E. ज्योतिस् light, and क what makes, from कृ,

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ज्योतिस् क कृ

with ड aff.