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caraka

cáraka m. a wanderer, wandering religious student, [ŚBr. xiv]; [Pāṇ. v, 1, 11]; [Lalit. i, 28]

a spy, [Naiṣ. iv, 116]

a kind of ascetic, [VarBṛ. xv, 1]

a kind of medicinal plant, [L.]

N. 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, [Bhpr.])

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cáraka m. pl. (cf. [Pāṇ. iv, 3, 107]) N. of a branch of the black Yajur-veda (the practises and rites enjoined by which are different in some respects from those in [ŚBr.]), [ŚBr. iv]; [Lāṭy. v, 4, 20]; Sch. on [VS.] & [ŚBr.]; [VāyuP. i, 61, 10]