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Lemma: śayana (n)
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a bed (MW)
copulation (MW)
couch (MW)
name of a Sāman (MW)
repose (MW)
rest (MW)
sexual intercourse (MW)
sleep (MW)
sleeping-place (MW)
the act of lying down or sleeping (MW)
Topic
Frequency
jātaka, avadāna 44
Mahāyāna 38
war 20
Bhakti 19
narrative literature 16
Pashupata Shaivism 13
Buddha's life 11
Asceticism, tapas 10
Buddhism 8
penance, prāyaścitta 8
Women 8
Alchemy 7
Medicine 7
āśrama 7
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra 6
dāna, giving 6
good behaviour 6
dharma 6
Mahābhārata 6
Dharmaśāstra 6
ariṣṭa, riṣṭa, kālavijñāna 5
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca 5
Travel 5
Brahmin 5
prāyaścitta 5
(Im-)purity 5
rebirth, transmigration 5
Pārvatī 5
Genealogies 5
karman doctrine 5
Kāmaśāstra 5
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism 5
Shivaism, Śiva 5
for love, love charms 5
Urvaśī and Purūravas 4
eating, food, anna 4
Nature poetry 4
Birth, childhood, and youth 4
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya 4
cow 4
against demons, rakṣas, evil spirits 3
puṃsavana 3
Sleeping 3
Cosmogony 3
Politics 3
Behaviour, strīdharma 3
Lexicography 3
Tīrthas 3
pātaka 3
hathayoga 3
Liberation, mokṣa, release 3
Giving, dāna 3
subhāṣita 2
Agni 2
Brahmā 2
Nara-Nārāyaṇa 2
Agastya 2
Māndhātṛ 2
dīkṣā 2
saṃsāra 2
Brideship and marriage 2
fable 2
Sāṃkhya 2
Harivaṃśa 2
pralaya, destruction of the world 2
friendship 2
vānaprastha 2
yuga theory 2
gṛhastha, householder 2
King, rājanīti 2
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha 2
bhasmasnāna, ashes 2
Criminal law 2
unsteadiness of life 1
Dakṣa's sacrifice and Satī 1
daiva vs. puruṣakāra 1
Gaṅgā, Ganges 1
vyavahāra 1
Yayāti, Devayānī, Śarmiṣṭhā 1
long live, āyus 1
praise of Viṣṇu (namas) 1
Astronomy 1
Prahlāda, Hiraṇyakaśipu 1
garbharakṣaṇa 1
kṛcchra 1
sāyaṃprātarhoma 1
saṃdhyā, twilight worship 1
garbhādhāna 1
medhājanana 1
jātakarman 1
samāvartana 1
Maruts 1
godāna 1
against serpents, snakebites 1
healing rituals, against diseases 1
Śiśupāla 1
Kaṃsa 1
Śaibyā and Śatadhanu 1
creates fever 1
Kṣatriya 1
bad behaviour 1
avatāras 1
Family law 1
Poetology 1
Property 1
Cosmology 1
Prostitution 1
Creation of the world 1
Pregnancy 1
Andhaka 1
Nāga 1
marriage, wedding 1
Inheritance, heritage, heirs 1
Family 1
Law 1
saṃnyāsa 1
Astrology 1
Zoology 1
Underworld, hell, naraka 1
Sacrifice, yajña 1
Marutta 1
urinary diseases 1
pretakārya, rituals for the dead, funeral rites 1
āpaddharma 1
poverty, renunciation 1
Cities 1
Accents 1
vātarakta 1
gulma 1
pathogenesis, origin of a disease 1
Behaviour, politeness 1
fever, jvara, takman 1
Kṛṣṇa 1
Gaṇeśa 1
vrata 1
Palmistry 1
Prophesy 1
worship 1
botany, plants 1
loss of caste, becoming a patita, patanīya 1
Concept Notes Count bed a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" 49 sleep a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber" 5 sleeping the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate 3 lying the act of lying = recumbency 3 sexual intercourse the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur 2 sofa an upholstered seat for more than one person 1 śayana [word] the word śayana 1
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