| Topic |
Frequency |
| war |
263 |
| jātaka, avadāna |
166 |
| Mahāyāna |
135 |
| narrative literature |
100 |
| agniṣṭoma |
70 |
| Buddha's life |
65 |
| twelve-day Soma rite, dvādaśāha |
55 |
| ātman |
53 |
| animal sacrifice, paśubandha |
52 |
| prāṇa etc. |
50 |
| Mahābhārata |
49 |
| Buddhism |
49 |
| Viṣṇu, Vishnuism |
48 |
| marriage, wedding |
44 |
| agnicayana |
42 |
| Shivaism, Śiva |
40 |
| Soma sacrifice |
39 |
| Bhakti |
38 |
| Sacrifice, yajña |
38 |
| Liberation, mokṣa, release |
37 |
| Tīrthas |
34 |
| midday pavamāna |
33 |
| Agni |
33 |
| Brideship and marriage |
32 |
| Indra |
31 |
| agnyādhāna, agnyādheya |
31 |
| fable |
30 |
| Birth, childhood, and youth |
28 |
| Sūrya, Savitṛ, sun |
27 |
| pṛṣṭha |
27 |
| atirātra |
26 |
| Kashmirian Shivaism |
25 |
| (mythical) interpretation of the agnicayana |
24 |
| dharma |
24 |
| sacrificial post, yūpa |
24 |
| Alchemy |
24 |
| kāmyeṣṭi |
22 |
| cow |
22 |
| sāman |
22 |
| King, rājanīti |
21 |
| Dharmaśāstra |
21 |
| uktha |
20 |
| midday sacrifice, mādhyandina, mādhyaṃdinasavana |
20 |
| third pressing, tṛtīyasavana |
20 |
| Women |
19 |
| agnihotra |
18 |
| Mīmāṃsā |
18 |
| Politics |
17 |
| Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra |
17 |
| raising the yūpa |
17 |
| Kaṃsa |
17 |
| ārbhava pavamāna |
17 |
| pretakārya, rituals for the dead, funeral rites |
16 |
| Giving, dāna |
16 |
| Medicine |
16 |
| prāyaścitta |
15 |
| Devala and Asita |
15 |
| penance, prāyaścitta |
15 |
| Genealogies |
14 |
| war and rivalry of Devas and Asuras |
14 |
| Grammar |
13 |
| punarādheya, punarādhāna |
13 |
| pravargya |
13 |
| Pārvatī |
13 |
| against sorcery |
13 |
| Sāṃkhya |
13 |
| Cosmogony (gen.) |
13 |
| āpaddharma |
13 |
| Vedic metres in sacrifice |
12 |
| mahāvrata |
12 |
| Varuṇa |
12 |
| jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge |
12 |
| army |
12 |
| poverty, renunciation |
12 |
| dāna, giving |
11 |
| altar, vedi |
11 |
| karman doctrine |
11 |
| Vāmadeva |
10 |
| good behaviour |
10 |
| bricks |
10 |
| raurava |
10 |
| death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha |
10 |
| dīkṣā |
10 |
| sacrificial fire |
9 |
| darśapūrṇamāsa iṣṭi, full-moon sacrifice |
9 |
| Soma |
9 |
| ghost, monster, demon |
9 |
| Travel |
9 |
| Peace and war |
9 |
| Viśve devāḥ |
9 |
| praise of Viṣṇu (namas) |
9 |
| Language |
9 |
| gavām ayana, gavāmayana |
9 |
| Poetology |
9 |
| svaru |
9 |
| Kṛṣṇa |
8 |
| Prajāpati creates the world |
8 |
| vaśā |
8 |
| vājapeya |
8 |
| Law |
8 |
| purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca |
8 |
| cātvāla |
8 |
| Nature poetry |
7 |
| agnyupasthāna |
7 |
| Paraśurāma |
7 |
| Asceticism, tapas |
7 |
| varṇas, castes |
7 |
| Brahmin |
7 |
| svarga, heaven |
7 |
| saṃsāra |
7 |
| gṛhastha, householder |
7 |
| kāmyapaśubandha, kāmya paśu |
7 |
| Kāmaśāstra |
7 |
| Lexicography |
7 |
| worship of relics, stūpas |
7 |
| religious speculation, mystic |
6 |
| Vedic hymns, śastras |
6 |
| (Im-)purity |
6 |
| senses, indriya |
6 |
| rebirth, transmigration |
6 |
| brahman |
6 |
| Tripura |
6 |
| Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman |
6 |
| Underworld, hell, naraka |
6 |
| Rudra |
6 |
| sīmantonnayana |
6 |
| Kirātārjunīya |
6 |
| Moral literature |
6 |
| Maruts |
6 |
| upanayana, initiation |
6 |
| Nala and Damayantī |
6 |
| eating, food, anna |
6 |
| vyavahāra |
6 |
| Kṛṣṇa and Bāṇa |
6 |
| Tāraka |
6 |
| śrāddha |
6 |
| puṃsavana |
6 |
| udgātṛ |
6 |
| Kaśyapa |
6 |
| omina, presigns, nimittas, adbhuta, omen |
6 |
| Mitra |
6 |
| aśvamedha, hayamedha |
5 |
| ekāha |
5 |
| against demons, rakṣas, evil spirits |
5 |
| for love, love charms |
5 |
| for long life, longevity, old age |
5 |
| Aśvins |
5 |
| Śvetadvīpa |
5 |
| aponaptrīya |
5 |
| Uṣas |
5 |
| Property of Brahmins |
5 |
| Marutta |
5 |
| Dvāravatī, Dvārakā |
5 |
| upāyakauśalya |
5 |
| study, śiṣya, adhyāya |
5 |
| weapons, arms |
5 |
| Pitṛ worship, pitṛyajña |
5 |
| against possession |
5 |
| Senses and world |
5 |
| ṣoḍaśin |
5 |
| bahiṣpavamāna, out-of-doors laud |
5 |
| ājya hymns |
5 |
| Dāruvana |
5 |
| birth, pregnancy |
4 |
| Prahlāda, Hiraṇyakaśipu |
4 |
| seven steps |
4 |
| water, rain |
4 |
| Yoga |
4 |
| Kṛṣṇa kills Naraka |
4 |
| Meditation |
4 |
| Hospitality, atithi, guests, ātithya |
4 |
| cūḍākaraṇa |
4 |
| saṃskāras |
4 |
| hiṅ, hiṃkāra |
4 |
| Prajāpati |
4 |
| Śunaḥśepa |
4 |
| hathayoga |
4 |
| Pashupata Shaivism |
4 |
| Sarasvatī, Vāc, speech |
4 |
| caturhotra, caturhotṛ, caturhotar |
4 |
| Brahmā |
4 |
| ariṣṭa, riṣṭa, kālavijñāna |
4 |
| Rāmāyaṇa |
4 |
| Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya |
4 |
| Dakṣa's sacrifice and Satī |
4 |
| udgītha |
4 |
| theft, stealing |
4 |
| garbhādhāna |
4 |
| somakraya, -vikraya, buying Soma |
3 |
| daśahotra |
3 |
| ukthya |
3 |
| monsoon |
3 |
| Candra, Candramas, moon |
3 |
| cāturmāsya |
3 |
| Kṛṣṇa and the Gopīs |
3 |
| Prajāpati and the sacrifice |
3 |
| prātaḥsavana |
3 |
| Balarāma |
3 |
| udvahana, bringing the bride to her new home |
3 |
| Pūṣan |
3 |
| healing rituals, against diseases |
3 |
| micro-macro cosmos speculation |
3 |
| somakrayaṇī |
3 |
| Māndhātṛ |
3 |
| āpyāyana |
3 |
| gṛhapraveśa |
3 |
| rājasūya |
3 |
| āhavanīya |
3 |
| for children, offspring, progeny |
3 |
| Pūtanā |
3 |
| Cosmography |
3 |
| Pṛthu and the Earth |
3 |
| manas |
3 |
| vrata |
3 |
| Military science |
3 |
| fighting |
3 |
| Witness |
3 |
| Religion and Philosophy |
3 |
| Ordeal |
3 |
| avatāras |
3 |
| fast, upavāsa, upavasatha |
3 |
| pregnancy |
3 |
| Vasiṣṭha |
3 |
| friendship |
3 |
| against bad omina and presigns |
2 |
| saṃpāta, sampāta |
2 |
| Trade |
2 |
| stomabhāga |
2 |
| begging, bhikṣu, bhikṣā |
2 |
| sacrificial ground, place of sacrifice, devayajana |
2 |
| for cattle, cows |
2 |
| Inheritance, heritage, heirs |
2 |
| Behaviour, strīdharma |
2 |
| Budha, Mercury |
2 |
| human sacrifice, puruṣamedha |
2 |
| parimara |
2 |
| for protection, safety, and luck |
2 |
| medhājanana |
2 |
| origin of the sacrifice |
2 |
| saṃdhyā, twilight worship |
2 |
| life, jīva |
2 |
| Churning of the Milk Ocean |
2 |
| truth, satya, ṛta |
2 |
| Creation of the world |
2 |
| ṣaḍaha |
2 |
| Vedic metres, prosody |
2 |
| deities of the moon, nights |
2 |
| niṣkevalya śastra |
2 |
| puruṣa, primeval man |
2 |
| arrow |
2 |
| Customs and taxes |
2 |
| Names of Śiva, sahasranāman |
2 |
| om, oṃ, oṃkāra |
2 |
| for political power |
2 |
| Agni in the water |
2 |
| Economy |
2 |
| varuṇapraghāsa |
2 |
| son, advantage of having sons |
2 |
| jātakarman |
2 |
| āśā, hope |
2 |
| nāmakaraṇa, nāmakarman |
2 |
| Sagara, Sāgara |
2 |
| Dhruva aka. Polar Star |
2 |
| Urvaśī and Purūravas |
2 |
| Bṛhaspati |
2 |
| piṇḍa |
2 |
| kṣatradharma |
2 |
| Pradyumna |
2 |
| pākayajña |
2 |
| worship |
2 |
| Administration |
2 |
| Surabhī, the wishing cow |
2 |
| Śaibyā and Śatadhanu |
2 |
| Indra's capital |
2 |
| Astrology |
2 |
| Pralamba |
2 |
| riddle hymns |
2 |
| State finances |
2 |
| avāntaradīkṣā |
2 |
| Nirṛti |
2 |
| for material success, riches, wealth, prosperity |
2 |
| Debts and interest |
2 |
| Trita and his brothers |
2 |
| Skanda |
2 |
| female ascetics |
2 |
| Agni Vaiśvānara |
2 |
| Viśvāmitra |
2 |
| Vāta, Vāyu, wind |
2 |
| āśrama |
2 |
| differences between women and men |
2 |
| long live, āyus |
2 |
| children |
2 |
| aṣṭakā |
1 |
| caula |
1 |
| Nāga |
1 |
| Sleeping |
1 |
| prātaranuvāka |
1 |
| Prostitution |
1 |
| grahagrahaṇa |
1 |
| introductory sacrifice, prāyaṇīya |
1 |
| godāna |
1 |
| Love |
1 |
| sexuality |
1 |
| Vaiśeṣika |
1 |
| snāna, bathing |
1 |
| Debt |
1 |
| upasad |
1 |
| ukhya |
1 |
| Aṣṭāvakra |
1 |
| weaving |
1 |
| sutyā |
1 |
| kṛcchra |
1 |
| soma graha |
1 |
| salutation, greeting, abhivādana |
1 |
| snātaka |
1 |
| saṃnyāsa |
1 |
| Vena |
1 |
| Apālā |
1 |
| virāj |
1 |
| Cosmogony |
1 |
| yamastoma |
1 |
| measuring the vedi, vedivimāna |
1 |
| vānaprastha |
1 |
| avabhṛtha |
1 |
| vasatīvarī |
1 |
| dadhigharma |
1 |
| somaprāyaścitta |
1 |
| Kālanemi |
1 |
| aṃśāvatāra |
1 |
| sarvamedha |
1 |
| nirūḍhapaśubandha |
1 |
| ṛc |
1 |
| pṛṣātaka |
1 |
| tulāpuruṣa |
1 |
| yuga theory |
1 |
| Nandin |
1 |
| ekāṣṭakā |
1 |
| Stories |
1 |
| Nosology |
1 |
| upākaraṇa, upākarman, start |
1 |
| nakṣatras |
1 |
| navayajña, sacrifice of the first fruits |
1 |
| kūśmāṇḍahoma |
1 |
| Materia medica |
1 |
| driving the animal to the sacrificial area, upākaraṇa |
1 |
| maitrāvaruṇa |
1 |
| anointing the animal, añjana |
1 |
| Time |
1 |
| upākaraṇa |
1 |
| against kṣetriya |
1 |
| Family |
1 |
| Nyāya |
1 |
| alms, bhikṣā |
1 |
| vaiśvadeva |
1 |
| Vāstoṣpati |
1 |
| Āpri hymn |
1 |
| pediatrics, child diseases |
1 |
| Himālaya |
1 |
| putting to sleep |
1 |
| hunting |
1 |
| against poison, venom |
1 |
| all-unity |
1 |
| non-attachment |
1 |
| dogs |
1 |
| Ādityas |
1 |
| conflicting worldviews |
1 |
| ahaṃkāra |
1 |
| for the birth of sons |
1 |
| for a good birth |
1 |
| kṣetrajña |
1 |
| military formation |
1 |
| for success, authority |
1 |
| bad behaviour |
1 |
| Gaṅgā, Ganges |
1 |
| Brahmaṇaspati |
1 |
| hiṃsā, ahiṃsā |
1 |
| Ṛṣyaśṛṅga |
1 |
| Agastya |
1 |
| human meat, cannibalism |
1 |
| Bharata |
1 |
| Kṛpa, Śaradvat |
1 |
| Zoology |
1 |
| Māṇḍavya |
1 |
| Yayāti, Devayānī, Śarmiṣṭhā |
1 |
| Yama |
1 |
| Bali and Indra |
1 |
| selling children, adoption |
1 |
| unsteadiness of life |
1 |
| Pulomā/an |
1 |
| Aṅgiras and his descendants (Āṅgirasas) |
1 |
| Bhṛgu |
1 |
| dakṣiṇā |
1 |
| third eye |
1 |
| eldest brother |
1 |
| sorcery |
1 |
| against bad dreams |
1 |
| Vṛtra |
1 |
| sahasranāman |
1 |
| rudrabhāga |
1 |
| ucchiṣṭa, remainder of the sacrifice |
1 |
| Minister |
1 |
| raktapitta |
1 |
| Vātāpi and Ilvala |
1 |
| fever, jvara, takman |
1 |
| rejuvenation |
1 |
| Cyavana |
1 |
| punarabhiṣeka |
1 |
| immortality, amṛta |
1 |
| atharvan priest |
1 |
| subhāṣita |
1 |
| Methodology |
1 |
| vrātya |
1 |
| interpretation of individual hymns or stanzas |
1 |
| Logic |
1 |
| divine waters, āpaḥ |
1 |
| pātaka |
1 |
| Kṣatriya |
1 |
| Atharvaveda |
1 |
| brahman priest, brahmatva |
1 |
| Vṛtra and Indra |
1 |
| Prajāpati and his daughter |
1 |
| against serpents, snakebites |
1 |
| against death, Nirṛti |
1 |
| amulets |
1 |
| against sins, misdeeds |
1 |
| for luck, happiness, well-being, good fortune |
1 |
| Psychology |
1 |
| recitation during sacrifice |
1 |
| strophes used in sacrifice |
1 |
| attacks Prajāpati |
1 |
| priest, ṛtvij |
1 |
| paśupati |
1 |
| Agni Gārhapatya, domestic fire |
1 |
| rasāyana |
1 |
| Theatre, nāṭyaśāstra |
1 |
| calmness of mind |
1 |
| falls on Śivas head |
1 |
| āśvina |
1 |
| kills Mahiṣa |
1 |
| dvadaśāha |
1 |
| Astronomy |
1 |
