चरकभाष्य

cáraka-bhāshya

cáraka

a spy Naish. IV, 116 ;
a kind of ascetic VarBṛ. XV, 1 ;
a kind of medicinal plant L. ;
N. of a Muni andﾠ physician (the Serpent-king Ṡesha, who was the recipient of the Āyur-veda;
once on visiting the earth andﾠ finding it full of sickness he became moved with pity andﾠ 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 orﾠ cara;
he then composed a new book on medicine, based on older works of Agni-veṡa andﾠ other pupils of Ātreya Bhpr.);
N. of a lexicographer;
m. pl. (cf. Pāṇ. 4-3, 107)
N. of a branch of the black Yajur-veda (the practises andﾠ rites-enjoined by which are different in some respects from those in ṠBr.)
ṠBr. IV Lāṭy. V, 4, 20 Sch. on VS. and ṠBr. VāyuP. I, 61, 10 ;
(ī) f. a kind of venomous fish Suṡr. V, 3, 8 ;
N. of an evil spirit VarBṛS. LIII, 83 AgP. XL, 18. ;
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