Maitreyaka: 8 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryMaitreyaka (मैत्रेयक).—Name of a mixed tribe; मैत्रेयकं तु वैदेहो माधूकं संप्रसूयते (maitreyakaṃ tu vaideho mādhūkaṃ saṃprasūyate) Manusmṛti 1.33.
Derivable forms: maitreyakaḥ (मैत्रेयकः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaitreyaka (मैत्रेयक).—m.
(-kaḥ) A crier or chaunter of the hours: see the last. E. maitreya, kan added.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaitreyaka (मैत्रेयक).—[maitreya + ka], m. 1. The son of a Vaideha by an Ayogava female, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 10, 33. 2. A crier or chaunter of the hours (this being probably the office of a Maitreyaka)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaitreyaka (मैत्रेयक).—[masculine] [Name] of a cert. mixed caste.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaitreyaka (मैत्रेयक):—[from maitra] m. Name of a [particular] mixed caste or degraded tribe (the offspring of a Vaideha and an Ayogavī, whose business is to praise great men and announce the dawn by ringing a bell), [Manu-smṛti x, 33]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryMaitreyaka (मैत्रेयक):—(kaḥ) 1. m. Crier (of the hours).
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Full-text: Maireyaka, Madhuka, Maitreyika, Maitreya, Maitra.
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Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 10.33 < [Section II - Mixed Castes]