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Sanskrit
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Etymology
Back-formation from दिधक्षति (didhakṣati, “to want to burn”, desiderative) + -आ (-ā).
Pronunciation
Noun
दिधक्षा • (didhakṣā) stem, f (Classical Sanskrit)
- desire to burn
c. 400 BCE,
Mahābhārata 12.49.33.2:
- जज्वाल तस्य बाणैस्तु चित्रभानुर्दिधक्षया ॥
- jajvāla tasya bāṇaistu citrabhānurdidhakṣayā.
- By his arrows, the fire lit up, with the desire to burn.
c. 700 CE – 900 CE,
Bhāgavata Purāṇa 6.4.5:
- द्रुमेभ्यः क्रुध्यमानास्ते तपोदीपितमन्यवः ।
मुखतो वायुमग्निं च ससृजुस्तद्दिधक्षया ॥- drumebhyaḥ krudhyamānāste tapodīpitamanyavaḥ.
mukhato vāyumagniṃ ca sasṛjustaddidhakṣayā. - Having undergone long austerities, they were very angry at the trees.
With the desire to burn them to ashes, they generated wind and fire from their mouths.
Declension
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “दिधक्षा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 478, column 1.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “didhakṣā”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दिधक्षा”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 119