सौगन्धिक

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

SAUGANDHIKA   A flower-garden of Kubera. It is assumed that Vāyu (the wind-god) carried fragrance from this garden and remained in the palace of Kubera, praising him. This garden was full of sweet-scented lotus (Saugandhika-flower). [M.B. Sabhā Parva, Chapter, 10] .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

सौगन्धिक  mfn.  mfn. sweet-scented, fragrant, [MBh.]; [R.]
सौगन्धिक  m.  m. a dealer in perfumes, [L.]
a sexually weak man (who is stimulated by the smell of the female organs), [Suśr.]
a kind of worm infesting the bowels, [Car.]
सौगन्धिक  n.  m. (also n.) sulphur, [L.]
सौगन्धिक  m.  m. N. of a mountain, [Cat.]
सौगन्धिक  n.  n. a white or blue water-lily, [Vās.]; [Jātakam.]
कत्-तृण   a kind of fragrant grass (= ), [L.]

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कत् तृण

a kind of Ocimum, [Suśr.]
a kind of unguent, [TāṇḍBr.]
a ruby, [VarBṛS.]; [Hcat.]
N. of a mountain, [BhP.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

सौगन्धिक [saugandhika] a.  a. (-का or
-की  f. f.) Sweet-scented, fragrant.
कः A dealear in perfumes, perfumer.
Sulphur.
A sexually weak man (who is stimulated by the smell of the female organs).
A kind of worm infesting the bowels.
कम् The white water-lily; गृहेषु नानोपवनामलाम्भःसरस्सु सौगन्धिककाननेषु [Bhāg.9.6.45.]
The blue lotus.
A kind of fragrant grass (कत्तृण).
A ruby.

Shabda-Sagara

सौगन्धिक  mfn.  ( -कः-का or -की-कं) Fragrant, odorous.
 n.  ( -कं)
1. The white water-lily, (Nymphæa lotus.)
2. A fragrant grass: see कत्तृण. 3 A ruby.
4. The blue lotus.
 m.  ( -कः)
1. Sulphur.
2. A dealer in perfumes.
E. सु pleasant, गन्ध smell, and ठक् added.

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सु गन्ध ठक्