pustaka
पुस्तक pustakaA book or manuscript; the Sanskrit word that gives the later term pothi.
Where this term appears
- Who is Saraswati? Deities
In another hand is a book, the pustaka , the scriptures and the disciplines of study.
- Leaf and Bark Treatise
It is the pothi , an oblong, landscape-format stack of loose leaves. The word descends from Sanskrit pustaka , book.
- Dakshinamurti: Shiva as the silent guru Deities
One lower hand holds a pustaka , the book, the recorded learning.
- Bhairavi: The Fire Within Creation Treatise
In her benign-scholarly form she holds a rosary, akshamala , and a book, pustaka , in two hands, signalling mantra and knowledge, the unmanifest Word, and shows the gestures of fearlessness and giving.