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Temporal probability mass distribution
cruel (MW)
disagreeable (MW)
ferocious (MW)
hard (MW)
harsh (MW)
hot (MW)
inauspicious (MW)
sharp (MW)
solid (MW)
sore (MW)
strong (MW)
wounded (MW)
Topic
Frequency
war 57
Mahābhārata 18
Soma sacrifice 16
King, rājanīti 13
animal sacrifice, paśubandha 12
āpyāyana 8
agniṣṭoma 8
darśapūrṇamāsa iṣṭi, full-moon sacrifice 6
varṇas, castes 6
yuga theory 6
spoons 5
Kāmaśāstra 5
dharma 5
Indra 5
Moral literature 5
narrative literature 5
prāyaścitta 5
Prophesy 5
Kalki(n) 4
penance, prāyaścitta 4
fable 4
Sunda and Upasunda 4
mantra 4
agnihotra 4
vapā, omentum, Netzhaut 4
Palmistry 3
ariṣṭa, riṣṭa, kālavijñāna 3
linguistic speculation 3
praise of Viṣṇu (namas) 3
Genealogies 3
bahiṣpavamāna, out-of-doors laud 3
mixture of castes, varṇasaṃkara 3
Astronomy 3
Dharmaśāstra 3
gṛhastha, householder 3
Medicine 3
Kashmirian Shivaism 3
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism 3
(Im-)purity 3
Politics 3
Ordeal 3
Alchemy 2
nāḍīvijñāna 2
vaśā 2
rājasūya 2
Himālaya 2
somakraya, -vikraya, buying Soma 2
Names of Śiva, sahasranāman 2
cow 2
Sagara, Sāgara 2
Agriculture 2
friendship 2
for success, authority 2
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca 2
Zoology 2
Grammar 2
sacrificial post, yūpa 2
Kṛṣṇa and the Gopīs 2
dāna, giving 2
Behaviour, strīdharma 2
karman doctrine 2
avatāras 2
marriage, wedding 2
caturhotra, caturhotṛ, caturhotar 2
daśahotra 2
agnyupasthāna 2
Bhakti 2
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha 2
against enemies, armies, weapons 2
sāman 2
Shivaism, Śiva 1
Police 1
against sorcery 1
Nara-Nārāyaṇa 1
high position of Brahmins 1
against rivals 1
saṃskāras 1
brahmagavī 1
āplavana 1
aṃśāvatāra 1
śyena 1
Pūru 1
Vena 1
nirūḍhapaśubandha 1
ekāha 1
placing the somakalaśa 1
jyotiṣṭoma 1
paryagnikaraṇa 1
raising the yūpa 1
paridhi enclosings 1
kāmyeṣṭi 1
twelve-day Soma rite, dvādaśāha 1
uktha 1
pṛṣṭha 1
mahāvrata 1
gavām ayana, gavāmayana 1
sorcery 1
altar, vedi 1
agnicayana 1
vapāhoma 1
upanayana, initiation 1
for political power 1
Pṛthu and the Earth 1
Prajāpati 1
snāna, bathing 1
Kṣatriya 1
sahasranāman 1
Brahmin 1
dīkṣā 1
study, śiṣya, adhyāya 1
Administration 1
kṣatradharma 1
Criminal law 1
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman 1
Cosmology 1
Law 1
Love 1
Prostitution 1
Tripura 1
Time 1
Creation of the world 1
war and rivalry of Devas and Asuras 1
Women 1
Nosology 1
Brideship and marriage 1
Cosmogony (gen.) 1
śrāddha 1
Crime 1
(prophesy about the) kaliyuga 1
fighting 1
Balarāma 1
Birth, childhood, and youth 1
vānaprastha 1
Vasiṣṭha 1
Yayāti, Devayānī, Śarmiṣṭhā 1
hathayoga 1
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya 1
omina, presigns, nimittas, adbhuta, omen 1
Pashupata Shaivism 1
hunting 1
Buddhism 1
aśvamedha, hayamedha 1
bad behaviour 1
Tāraka 1
pretakārya, rituals for the dead, funeral rites 1
botany, plants 1
army 1
theft, stealing 1
Paraśurāma 1
fever, jvara, takman 1
subhāṣita 1
Dvāravatī, Dvārakā 1
Concept Notes Count cruel lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy 24 barbarous (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" 4 harsh extremely unkind or cruel; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant" 2 inauspicious not auspicious; boding ill 2 hard not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock" 1 ferocious marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" 1 ill presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley;"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government" 1
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