m. a jester, wag, buffoon (especially in dramatic language) the jocose companion and confidential friend of the hero of a play (he acts the same confidential part towards the king or hero, that her female companions do towards the heroine;his business is to excite mirth in person and attire, and to make himself the universal butt;a curious regulation requires him to be a Brahman, or higher in caste than the king himself; see) etc.
विदूषक a. (-की f.) 1 Defiling, polluting, contaminating, corrupting. -2 Detracting, abusing. -3 Witty, humorous, jocular. -कः 1 A jester, buffon. -2 Particularly, the humorous companion and confidential friend of the hero in a play, who excites mirth by his quaint dress, speeches, gestures, appearances &c., and by allowing himself to be made the butt fo ridicule by almost every body; the S. D. thus defines him :-- कुसुमवसन्ताद्यभिधः कर्मवपुर्वेशभाषाद्यैः । हास्यकरः कलहरतिर्विदूषकः स्यात् स्वकर्मज्ञः ॥ 79; cf. also शृङ्गारस्य सहाया विटचेटविदूषकाद्याः स्युः । भक्ता नर्मसु निपुणाः कुपितवधूमानभञ्जनाः शुद्धाः ॥ ibid. -3 A libertine, lecher. -4 A critic; an opponent; प्राशंसि संसद्गुरुणापि चार्वी चार्वाकता सर्वविदूषकेण N.1.57.
a. [fr. cs. of √ dush] detracting; m. jester, buffoon: sp. humourous companion of the hero in a play exciting mirth by buffoonery of all kinds; N. of a Brâhman.
noun (masculine) a jester (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a libertine (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
buffoon (esp. in dram.) the jocose companion and confidential friend of the hero of a play (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
catamite (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Brāhman (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
wag (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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