aSoka a. Without sorrow, not feeling or causing sorrow. — kaH 1 N. of a tree having red flowers (Jonesia Aśoka Roxb.); (said, according to the convention of poets, to put forth flowers when struck by ladies with the foot decked with jingling anklets; cf. asUta sadyaH kusumAnyaSokaH… pAdena nApEkzata suMdarIRAM saMparkamASiMjitanUpureRa Ku. 3. 26 ; Me. 78 ; R. 8. 62 ; M. 3. 12 , 16 ; also pAdAGAtAdaSokastilakakurabakO vIkzaRAliMganAByAM strIRAM spaSAMt priyaMguviMkasati bakulaH sIDugaMqUzasekAt . maMdAro narmavAkyAt pawumfwuhasanAccaMpako vaktravAtAt cUto gItAnnameruviMkasati ca puro nartanAtkarRikAraH ). 2 N. of Viṣṇu. 3 N. of a minister of king Daśaratha. 4 N. of a celebrated king of the Maurya dynasty, said to have reigned from 234-198 B. C. 5 N. of the tree bakula . — kaM 1 N. of a medical plant ( kawuka ). 2 The sixth day in the first half of Chaitra. 3 One of the female domestic deities of the Jainas. — kA 1 Quicksilver. 2 The blossom of the Aśoka plant (forming one of the five arrows of Cupid). Comp. — ariH the kadaMba tree. — azwamI [ nAsti Soko yasyAH karma° ] the eighth day in the first half of Chaitra . — taruH, -nagaH, -vfkzaH the Aśoka tree. — tIrTaM a holy place named Aśoka near Benares. — trirAtraH, -traM N. of a festival or vrata which lasts for three nights; astyaSokatrirAtrAKyaM vrataM SokaBayApahaM . trirAtraM tacca kartavyaM vrataM SokavinASanaM .. . — pUrRimA N. of a certain holiday, a ceremony to be observed on the 15th day of the month of ( pb ) Phālguna. — maMjarI N. of a metre. — rohiRI N. of a medical plant ( kawukA ). — vanikA a grove of Aśoka trees; °nyAya see under nyAya . — zazWI N. of a certain holiday; cEtre mAsyasite pakze zazWyAM zazWIM prapUjayet . suKAya putralABAya Suklapakze taTEva ca .. .