The corpus record — Sanskrit

iṣṭakā

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Where it lives

Katha Upanisad 1 · 4.64/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. istakä-

istakä- f. gebrannter Ziegel, Backstein (VS, Br +; Sü + istika-). - Mi,, ni., Tu 1600 (s. auch TuAdd 1600), - Tir., vgl. jav. istiian. Ziegel, Backstein (auch zmöistuua- n. "Lehmziegel [s. Bthl, Wb. 1691]?), ap. itr- f. luftgetrockneter Ziegel, mp. np. xist dss. Weiteres ist ungesichert. Vage Anschlußversuche an idg. Wurzeln für ‘brennen’ bei K. F. Johansson, IF 19 (1906) 136 bzw Uhl 26a; zu beachten Oftto]. Stein, … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. istakä-, p. 256]

2. iṣṭakā

iṣṭakā f. a brick in general

3. iṣṭakā

a brick used in building the sacrificial altar, VS. ; AitBr. ; ŚBr. ; KātyŚr. ; Mṛcch. &c.

In the wild

iṣṭakā Katha Upanisad kau_1.15

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.