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Lemma: sparśa (m)
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(in gram.) collective name of the twenty-five consonants constituting the five classes from k to m (so-called because formed by complete contact of the organs of utterance (MW)
(in phil.) the quality of tangibility (which constitutes the skin's viṣaya) (MW)
a gift (MW)
a kind of sexual union (MW)
a spy (MW)
air (MW)
any quality which is perceptible by touching any object (e.g. heat) (MW)
contact (fig. applied to the beginning of an eclipse or to any astron. contact) (MW)
feeling (MW)
illness (MW)
offering (MW)
pleasant feeling (MW)
sensation (MW)
temperature (MW)
touch (MW)
unpleasant or morbid sensation (MW)
wind (MW)
Topic
Frequency
Alchemy 49
Medicine 29
Liberation, mokṣa, release 24
war 22
Kashmirian Shivaism 22
Cosmogony 20
Mahāyāna 17
pathogenesis, origin of a disease 15
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism 13
botany, plants 12
jātaka, avadāna 12
Yoga 12
Sāṃkhya 11
senses, indriya 11
Cosmogony (gen.) 11
Vaiśeṣika 9
Pashupata Shaivism 9
ātman 8
Creation of the world 8
kṣetrajña 7
ahaṃkāra 7
Buddha's life 7
Nyāya 7
narrative literature 7
Bhakti 7
Mahābhārata 6
Psychology 6
karman doctrine 6
(Im-)purity 6
manas 5
Senses and world 5
kuṣṭha 4
prāyaścitta 4
jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge 4
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman 4
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca 4
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha 4
upāyakauśalya 4
Shivaism, Śiva 4
omina, presigns, nimittas 4
King, rājanīti 4
sahasranāman 3
varṇas, castes 3
Lexicography 3
fever, jvara, takman 3
creates fever 3
Dharmaśāstra 3
gulma 3
plīhan 3
vānaprastha 3
Birth, childhood, and youth 3
udara 3
sāman 3
pāṇḍuroga 3
Materia medica 3
śotha 3
life, jīva 3
nāḍīvijñāna 3
saṃsāra 3
dharma 3
good behaviour 2
pretakārya, rituals for the dead, funeral rites 2
ghost, monster, demon 2
praise of Viṣṇu (namas) 2
vidradhi 2
ariṣṭa, riṣṭa, kālavijñāna 2
Kṛṣṇa and the Gopīs 2
Paraśurāma 2
vātarakta 2
Zoology 2
worship 2
Love 2
(Non-)vegetarism, meat 2
Law 2
pralaya, destruction of the world 2
saṃskāras 2
Mineralogy, jewels, metals 2
inundation 2
Poetology 2
Kāmaśāstra 2
mankind 2
Dhruva aka. Polar Star 1
linguistic speculation 1
study, śiṣya, adhyāya 1
differences between women and men 1
female ascetics 1
gṛhastha, householder 1
hunting 1
Buddhism 1
Structure of the world 1
Debts and interest 1
Politics 1
hathayoga 1
vyavahāra 1
Prahlāda, Hiraṇyakaśipu 1
Kirātārjunīya 1
hiṃsā, ahiṃsā 1
Asceticism, tapas 1
Kṛṣṇa kills Naraka 1
Kṛṣṇa and Bāṇa 1
Māndhātṛ 1
Shivaite Tantrism 1
Brahmā 1
against bad omina and presigns 1
murder 1
godāna 1
mahāvrata 1
Grammar 1
lobha, greed 1
Tāraka 1
prāṇa etc. 1
avatāras 1
penance, prāyaścitta 1
Logic 1
weapons, arms 1
vrata 1
Hospitality, atithi, guests, ātithya 1
cough, kāsa 1
urinary diseases 1
Purāṇa 1
Tripura 1
Genealogies 1
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra 1
Matsyāvatāra 1
vātavyādhi 1
Reduplication 1
Vṛtra 1
Accents 1
army 1
Andhaka 1
Nosology 1
Women 1
marriage, wedding 1
Time 1
Ordeal 1
Meditation 1
Witness 1
Burning of Kāma 1
burnt by Śiva 1
Cosmography 1
Vṛtra and Indra 1
upākaraṇa, upākarman, start 1
Concept Notes Count touch the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" 58 contact the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull" 16 contact the act of touching physically; "her fingers came in contact with the light switch" 3 sensation an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of touch" 2 sparśavedha [alchemy] a kind of vedha 1
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