Lemma: kūrma (m)
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- Viṣṇu in the form of a tortoise (OH meanings)
a kind of alchemical apparatus (OH meanings)
- [medic.] a kind of disease of the mouth (OH meanings)
- name of the fourteenth Adhyāya of VarBS (MW)
- one of the airs of the human body (OH meanings)
- the earth considered as a tortoise swimming on the waters (MW)
- tortoise (MW)
- turtle (MW)
| Topic |
Frequency |
| narrative literature |
22 |
| Alchemy |
21 |
| Politics |
15 |
| Military science |
14 |
| agnicayana |
13 |
| Viṣṇu, Vishnuism |
10 |
| pralaya, destruction of the world |
10 |
| Bhakti |
7 |
| agnyādhāna, agnyādheya |
7 |
| purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca |
7 |
| hathayoga |
7 |
| botany, plants |
6 |
| worship |
6 |
| Cosmogony |
5 |
| darśapūrṇamāsa iṣṭi, full-moon sacrifice |
5 |
| Zoology |
4 |
| Liberation, mokṣa, release |
4 |
| avatāras |
4 |
| (mythical) interpretation of the agnicayana |
4 |
| Medicine |
4 |
| inundation |
3 |
| Buddhism |
3 |
| King, rājanīti |
3 |
| Palmistry |
3 |
| Dharmaśāstra |
3 |
| Churning of the Milk Ocean |
3 |
| eating, food, anna |
2 |
| Skanda |
2 |
| Varāha |
2 |
| war |
2 |
| Senses and world |
2 |
| Genealogies |
2 |
| Yoga |
2 |
| Birth, childhood, and youth |
2 |
| war and rivalry of Devas and Asuras |
2 |
| Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman |
2 |
| Mineralogy, jewels, metals |
2 |
| Prajāpati creates the world |
2 |
| bricks |
2 |
| Lexicography |
2 |
| Prophesy |
2 |
| Tīrthas |
2 |
| bad behaviour |
1 |
| manas |
1 |
| calmness of mind |
1 |
| senses, indriya |
1 |
| jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge |
1 |
| Minister |
1 |
| ātman |
1 |
| Yayāti, Devayānī, Śarmiṣṭhā |
1 |
| saṃsāra |
1 |
| hunting |
1 |
| udara |
1 |
| praise of Viṣṇu (namas) |
1 |
| healing rituals, against diseases |
1 |
| against evil |
1 |
| jātaka, avadāna |
1 |
| Theatre, nāṭyaśāstra |
1 |
| Shivaism, Śiva |
1 |
| altar, vedi |
1 |
| saṃdhyā, twilight worship |
1 |
| Pūru |
1 |
| theft, stealing |
1 |
| dharma |
1 |
| plīhan |
1 |
| Rāmāyaṇa |
1 |
| Buddha's life |
1 |
| āśrama |
1 |
| death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha |
1 |
| (Im-)purity |
1 |
| Women |
1 |
| Behaviour, strīdharma |
1 |
| dāna, giving |
1 |
| (Non-)vegetarism, meat |
1 |
| Materia medica |
1 |
| gṛhastha, householder |
1 |
| Pashupata Shaivism |
1 |
| Matsyāvatāra |
1 |
| Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra |
1 |
| pathogenesis, origin of a disease |
1 |
| Mahābhārata |
1 |
| Mahāyāna |
1 |
| Kāmaśāstra |
1 |
| Agriculture |
1 |
| begging, bhikṣu, bhikṣā |
1 |
| dīkṣā |
1 |
| sahasranāman |
1 |
| śrāddha |
1 |
| saṃnyāsa |
1 |
| Architecture |
1 |
| Kashmirian Shivaism |
1 |
| Geography |
1 |
| subhāṣita |
1 |
| penance, prāyaścitta |
1 |
| Concept | Notes | Count |
| turtle | any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming | 34 |
| tortoise | usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica | 6 |
| Kūrmāvatāra | the seconde avatāra of Viṣṇu | 4 |
| Kūrma | one of the airs of the human body | 3 |
| kacchapayantra | a flat kind of still; an alchemical apparatus | 2 |
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