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Lemma: vetāla (m)
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Temporal probability mass distribution
Meanings
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a door-keeper (?) (MW)
a kind of demon (MW)
ghost (MW)
goblin (MW)
name of a poet (MW)
name of a teacher (MW)
name of one of Śiva's attendants (MW)
spirit (MW)
vampire (esp. one occupying a dead body) (MW)
Occurrences
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All occurrences
Topic
n/total
Absolute
Relative
CI
Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā
2/107529
Bhāgavatapurāṇa
1/77807
Bhāratamañjarī
10/85669
0.01167% ± 0.00609
Bodhicaryāvatāra
1/13775
Daśakumāracarita
1/35191
Garuḍapurāṇa
1/75742
Gokarṇapurāṇasāraḥ
1/14711
Harṣacarita
3/37509
Kathāsaritsāgara
22/149332
0.01473% ± 0.00518
Kālikāpurāṇa
6/4093
Kūrmapurāṇa
1/81935
Laṅkāvatārasūtra
3/13621
Liṅgapurāṇa
1/127612
Mahābhārata
1/1148075
Matsyapurāṇa
3/122867
Narmamālā
3/5583
Rasaratnasamuccaya
1/28159
Saṃvitsiddhi
1/3405
Skandapurāṇa (Revākhaṇḍa)
1/114128
Tantrasāra
1/14220
Uḍḍāmareśvaratantra
4/10934
Vetālapañcaviṃśatikā
2/814
Ānandakanda
2/84075
Occurrences in chapters with topics
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Topic
Frequency
Mahābhārata
8
Buddhism
3
Alchemy
2
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism
2
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra
2
war
2
narrative literature
1
Creation of the world
1
Mahāyāna
1
Indra
1
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman
1
sahasranāman
1
ghost, monster, demon
1
Nominal forms
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not set
1
comp.
42
Nom. sg. masc.
7
Nom. pl. masc.
4
Acc. sg. masc.
7
Acc. pl. masc.
1
Ins. sg. masc.
6
Ins. pl. masc.
3
Gen. pl. masc.
1
Word semantic annotations
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Concept
Notes
Count
Vetāla
a kind of demon
5
Vetāla
name of one of Śivas attendants
3
Similar and related words
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Word
Cosine similarity
ḍākinī
0.739845
Collocations