Lemma: śaṅkha (mn)
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Temporal probability mass distribution
- a particular high number (said to = a hundred billions) (MW)
- a shell (MW)
- the conch-shell (used for making libations of water or as an ornament for the arms or for the temples of an elephant) (MW)
Topic |
Frequency |
war |
121 |
Alchemy |
74 |
Bhakti |
63 |
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism |
50 |
worship |
43 |
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca |
41 |
jātaka, avadāna |
26 |
Mahāyāna |
24 |
Mineralogy, jewels, metals |
22 |
Mahābhārata |
20 |
Dharmaśāstra |
8 |
Buddhism |
8 |
Lexicography |
8 |
Materia medica |
7 |
against evil |
7 |
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra |
7 |
amulets |
7 |
botany, plants |
7 |
against anger, wrath, fury |
7 |
dīkṣā |
6 |
narrative literature |
5 |
pūjā |
5 |
Shivaism, Śiva |
5 |
Buddha's life |
5 |
Kṛṣṇa |
5 |
Birth, childhood, and youth |
4 |
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya |
4 |
army |
4 |
Medicine |
4 |
aśvamedha, hayamedha |
3 |
Churning of the Milk Ocean |
3 |
Yoga |
3 |
(Im-)purity |
3 |
Women |
2 |
Law |
2 |
Dakṣa's sacrifice and Satī |
2 |
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman |
2 |
Zoology |
2 |
Poetology |
2 |
Customs and taxes |
2 |
Varāha |
2 |
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha |
2 |
Dhruva aka. Polar Star |
2 |
omina, presigns, nimittas |
2 |
Śrīvidyā |
2 |
Astrology |
2 |
Genealogies |
2 |
Kaṃsa |
2 |
Kāmaśāstra |
2 |
grahas |
2 |
Palmistry |
2 |
pralaya, destruction of the world |
2 |
Economy |
2 |
ātman |
2 |
Liberation, mokṣa, release |
2 |
Prophesy |
2 |
pathogenesis, origin of a disease |
2 |
mantra |
2 |
jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge |
1 |
rasāyana |
1 |
hunting |
1 |
Pārvatī |
1 |
Astronomy |
1 |
Skanda |
1 |
Urvaśī and Purūravas |
1 |
creates fever |
1 |
vraṇa, sore |
1 |
worship of relics, stūpas |
1 |
military formation |
1 |
Nara-Nārāyaṇa |
1 |
Śiśupāla |
1 |
Kṛṣṇa and the Gopīs |
1 |
third eye |
1 |
Pūtanā |
1 |
Kirātārjunīya |
1 |
praise of Viṣṇu (namas) |
1 |
Indra's capital |
1 |
Kubera |
1 |
linguistic speculation |
1 |
treasure, kośa, treasury |
1 |
snāna, bathing |
1 |
ariṣṭa, riṣṭa, kālavijñāna |
1 |
Tīrthas |
1 |
saṃskāras |
1 |
marriage, wedding |
1 |
Rituals |
1 |
Witness |
1 |
varṇas, castes |
1 |
dhanurveda |
1 |
dharma |
1 |
dāna, giving |
1 |
Sāṃkhya |
1 |
King, rājanīti |
1 |
gṛhastha, householder |
1 |
hathayoga |
1 |
Asceticism, tapas |
1 |
Kashmirian Shivaism |
1 |
Cosmogony (gen.) |
1 |
(Non-)vegetarism, meat |
1 |
śotha |
1 |
Agriculture |
1 |
pāṇḍuroga |
1 |
urinary diseases |
1 |
fever, jvara, takman |
1 |
fast, upavāsa, upavasatha |
1 |
gambling |
1 |
Sūrya, Savitṛ, sun |
1 |
Cosmography |
1 |
yuga theory |
1 |
Cosmology |
1 |
process, jurisdiction |
1 |
Aphrodisiacs |
1 |
Prostitution |
1 |
Tripura |
1 |
war and rivalry of Devas and Asuras |
1 |
inundation |
1 |
kāmyeṣṭi |
1 |
Concept | Notes | Count |
conch | any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip | 145 |
shell | the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc | 37 |
Śaṅkha | a particular high number | 4 |
shell | the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals | 3 |
laghuśaṅkha | a kind of small shell/conch | 1 |
vulva | external parts of the female genitalia | 1 |
Collocations