Lemma: puṇya (n)
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Temporal probability mass distribution
- a brick trough for watering cattle (MW)
- a religious ceremony (esp. one performed by a wife in order to retain her husband's affections and to obtain a son) (MW)
- good work (MW)
- meritorious act (MW)
- moral or religious merit (MW)
- purity (MW)
- the good or right (MW)
- virtue (MW)
| Topic |
Frequency |
| Mahāyāna |
81 |
| jātaka, avadāna |
25 |
| Alchemy |
25 |
| Tīrthas |
23 |
| Bhakti |
16 |
| Buddha's life |
12 |
| Mahābhārata |
12 |
| narrative literature |
8 |
| worship of relics, stūpas |
8 |
| purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca |
8 |
| ātman |
7 |
| Cosmogony |
6 |
| Gaṅgā, Ganges |
6 |
| Liberation, mokṣa, release |
5 |
| Pashupata Shaivism |
5 |
| Giving, dāna |
5 |
| good behaviour |
5 |
| prāṇa etc. |
5 |
| Dharmaśāstra |
5 |
| penance, prāyaścitta |
4 |
| eating, food, anna |
4 |
| worship |
4 |
| karman doctrine |
4 |
| Kṣatriya |
3 |
| śrāddha |
3 |
| war |
3 |
| Time |
3 |
| rebirth, transmigration |
3 |
| marriage, wedding |
3 |
| Astronomy |
3 |
| Shivaism, Śiva |
3 |
| Kashmirian Shivaism |
3 |
| mankind |
3 |
| āśrama |
3 |
| King, rājanīti |
3 |
| Śaibyā and Śatadhanu |
2 |
| dharma |
2 |
| Brahmin |
2 |
| praise of Viṣṇu (namas) |
2 |
| vyavahāra |
2 |
| Prahlāda, Hiraṇyakaśipu |
2 |
| fast, upavāsa, upavasatha |
2 |
| Cosmography |
2 |
| Kṛṣṇa and the Gopīs |
2 |
| Lexicography |
2 |
| Viṣṇu, Vishnuism |
2 |
| agniṣṭoma |
2 |
| dāna, giving |
2 |
| Yoga |
2 |
| cow |
2 |
| marman |
1 |
| India |
1 |
| life, jīva |
1 |
| trivarga, caturvarga |
1 |
| Rituals |
1 |
| Kurukṣetra |
1 |
| Religion and Philosophy |
1 |
| Dhruva aka. Polar Star |
1 |
| Bhṛgu |
1 |
| jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge |
1 |
| svarga, heaven |
1 |
| Birth, childhood, and youth |
1 |
| Kaṃsa |
1 |
| Grammar |
1 |
| Prajāpati creates the world |
1 |
| agnyādhāna, agnyādheya |
1 |
| feeding Brāhmaṇas, brāhmaṇabhojana |
1 |
| ukhā |
1 |
| Pulomā/an |
1 |
| piṇḍa |
1 |
| āpaddharma |
1 |
| Law |
1 |
| Witness |
1 |
| Women |
1 |
| saṃskāras |
1 |
| Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya |
1 |
| prāyaścitta |
1 |
| Brideship and marriage |
1 |
| pralaya, destruction of the world |
1 |
| Churning of the Milk Ocean |
1 |
| pregnancy |
1 |
| Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra |
1 |
| Debts and interest |
1 |
| Technique of Yoga |
1 |
| Genealogies |
1 |
| varṇas, castes |
1 |
| truth, satya, ṛta |
1 |
| Tripura |
1 |
| Buddhism |
1 |
| Customs and taxes |
1 |
| sexuality |
1 |
| Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman |
1 |
| Underworld, hell, naraka |
1 |
| Sāṃkhya |
1 |
| Politics |
1 |
| gṛhastha, householder |
1 |
| hathayoga |
1 |
| Ordeal |
1 |
| subhāṣita |
1 |
| vrata |
1 |
| agricultural rites |
1 |
| Concept | Notes | Count |
|---|
| merit | any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit" | 15 |
| good | that which is good or valuable or useful: "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization" | 10 |
| virtue | the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong | 2 |
| puṇya [word] | the word puṇya | 1 |
| good karman | good karman | 1 |
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