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(in gram.) collective name of the twenty-five consonants constituting the five classes from k to m (so-called because formed by complete contact of the organs of utterance (MW)
(in phil.) the quality of tangibility (which constitutes the skin's viṣaya) (MW)
a gift (MW)
a kind of sexual union (MW)
a spy (MW)
air (MW)
any quality which is perceptible by touching any object (e.g. heat) (MW)
contact (fig. applied to the beginning of an eclipse or to any astron. contact) (MW)
feeling (MW)
illness (MW)
offering (MW)
pleasant feeling (MW)
sensation (MW)
temperature (MW)
touch (MW)
unpleasant or morbid sensation (MW)
wind (MW)
Topic
Frequency
Alchemy 49
Medicine 30
Liberation, mokṣa, release 24
Kashmirian Shivaism 22
war 22
Mahāyāna 21
Cosmogony 20
pathogenesis, origin of a disease 15
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism 13
jātaka, avadāna 12
botany, plants 12
Yoga 12
Sāṃkhya 11
Cosmogony (gen.) 11
senses, indriya 11
Vaiśeṣika 9
Pashupata Shaivism 9
Creation of the world 8
ātman 8
Nyāya 7
ahaṃkāra 7
Buddha's life 7
Bhakti 7
kṣetrajña 7
narrative literature 7
(Im-)purity 6
Mahābhārata 6
Psychology 6
karman doctrine 6
Senses and world 5
manas 5
King, rājanīti 4
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman 4
Shivaism, Śiva 4
upāyakauśalya 4
kuṣṭha 4
prāyaścitta 4
jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge 4
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca 4
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha 4
omina, presigns, nimittas, adbhuta, omen 4
Birth, childhood, and youth 4
sahasranāman 3
fever, jvara, takman 3
dharma 3
gulma 3
plīhan 3
Lexicography 3
Buddhism 3
udara 3
pāṇḍuroga 3
śotha 3
nāḍīvijñāna 3
varṇas, castes 3
Dharmaśāstra 3
sāman 3
vānaprastha 3
saṃsāra 3
creates fever 3
Materia medica 3
life, jīva 3
praise of Viṣṇu (namas) 2
good behaviour 2
pretakārya, rituals for the dead, funeral rites 2
ariṣṭa, riṣṭa, kālavijñāna 2
vidradhi 2
Mīmāṃsā 2
Paraśurāma 2
authority of the Veda 2
vātarakta 2
Kṛṣṇa and the Gopīs 2
Kṛṣṇa 2
ghost, monster, demon 2
Dvāravatī, Dvārakā 2
Logic 2
Poetology 2
(Non-)vegetarism, meat 2
saṃskāras 2
mankind 2
Law 2
pralaya, destruction of the world 2
Love 2
Zoology 2
Kāmaśāstra 2
Mineralogy, jewels, metals 2
worship 2
inundation 2
differences between women and men 1
Dhruva aka. Polar Star 1
female ascetics 1
Debts and interest 1
linguistic speculation 1
vyavahāra 1
hunting 1
Prahlāda, Hiraṇyakaśipu 1
Kirātārjunīya 1
Kṛṣṇa kills Naraka 1
Politics 1
gṛhastha, householder 1
Structure of the world 1
Kṛṣṇa and Bāṇa 1
Māndhātṛ 1
hathayoga 1
Brahmā 1
Asceticism, tapas 1
against bad omina and presigns 1
Shivaite Tantrism 1
murder 1
godāna 1
mahāvrata 1
upākaraṇa, upākarman, start 1
Grammar 1
Witness 1
prāṇa etc. 1
Ordeal 1
Reduplication 1
vrata 1
study, śiṣya, adhyāya 1
cough, kāsa 1
Cosmography 1
urinary diseases 1
weapons, arms 1
Hospitality, atithi, guests, ātithya 1
Purāṇa 1
Tripura 1
Genealogies 1
vātavyādhi 1
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra 1
Matsyāvatāra 1
Accents 1
Time 1
army 1
avatāras 1
Andhaka 1
Nosology 1
Women 1
Meditation 1
marriage, wedding 1
Burning of Kāma 1
burnt by Śiva 1
Tāraka 1
Vṛtra and Indra 1
Vṛtra 1
hiṃsā, ahiṃsā 1
lobha, greed 1
penance, prāyaścitta 1
Concept Notes Count touch the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" 57 contact the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull" 16 contact the act of touching physically; "her fingers came in contact with the light switch" 2 sensation an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of touch" 2 sparśavedha [alchemy] a kind of vedha 1
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