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aśoka

a-śoka mf(A)n. (√ śuc), not causing sorrow N.; [Lalit.]

not feeling sorrow, [Nalod.]

a-śoka m. the tree Jonesia Asoka Roxb. (a tree of moderate size belonging to the leguminous class with magnificent red flowers), [MBh.] &c.

N. of a minister of king Daśaratha, [R. i, 7, 3]

of a well-known king (in Pāṭaliputra), [MBh.]; [Buddh.] &c.

a-śoka n. the blossom of the Aśoka plant, [Vikr.], (cf. [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 166]; [Siddh.])

quicksilver, [L.]

á-śoka mfn. (√ 3. śuc), without heat, [ŚBr. xiv.]