संस्‍कृतशब्‍दकोशः

Monier–Williams

चरक — {cáraka} m. a wanderer, wandering religious student xiv 5-1, 11 i, 28##a spy iv, 116##a kind of ascetic xv, 1##a kind of medicinal plant##N. of a Muni and physician (the Serpent-king Śesha, who was the recipient of the Āyur-veda##once on visiting the earth and finding it full of sickness he became moved with pity and 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 or {cara}##he then composed a new book on medicine, based on older works of Agni-veśa and other pupils of Ātreya )##N. of a lexicographer##m. pl. (cf. 4-3, 107) N. of a branch of the black Yajur-veda (the practises and rites-enjoined by which are different in some respects from those in ) iv v, 4, 20 on and i, 61, 10##({ī}), f. a kind of venomous fish v, 3, 8##N. of an evil spirit liii, 83 xl, 18