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Lemma: krūra (adj)
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cruel (MW)
disagreeable (MW)
ferocious (MW)
hard (MW)
harsh (MW)
hot (MW)
inauspicious (MW)
sharp (MW)
solid (MW)
sore (MW)
strong (MW)
wounded (MW)
Topic
Frequency
war 57
Mahābhārata 17
King, rājanīti 13
Soma sacrifice 13
animal sacrifice, paśubandha 12
āpyāyana 8
varṇas, castes 6
Moral literature 5
dharma 5
yuga theory 5
narrative literature 5
darśapūrṇamāsa iṣṭi, full-moon sacrifice 5
spoons 5
Kāmaśāstra 5
Prophesy 5
Indra 5
mantra 4
fable 4
Kalki(n) 4
vapā, omentum, Netzhaut 4
agnihotra 4
Sunda and Upasunda 4
ariṣṭa, riṣṭa, kālavijñāna 3
Palmistry 3
mixture of castes, varṇasaṃkara 3
prāyaścitta 3
linguistic speculation 3
praise of Viṣṇu (namas) 3
Astronomy 3
(Im-)purity 3
Ordeal 3
Medicine 3
bahiṣpavamāna, out-of-doors laud 3
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism 3
Kashmirian Shivaism 3
Politics 3
gṛhastha, householder 3
Dharmaśāstra 3
friendship 2
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca 2
penance, prāyaścitta 2
daśahotra 2
agnyupasthāna 2
rājasūya 2
Names of Śiva, sahasranāman 2
somakraya, buying Soma 2
against enemies, armies, weapons 2
Himālaya 2
vaśā 2
cow 2
for success, authority 2
sāman 2
Agriculture 2
Kṛṣṇa and the Gopīs 2
sacrificial post, yūpa 2
caturhotra, caturhotṛ, caturhotar 2
Bhakti 2
Grammar 2
marriage, wedding 2
dāna, giving 2
nāḍīvijñāna 2
Behaviour, strīdharma 2
karman doctrine 2
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha 2
Alchemy 2
Zoology 2
high position of Brahmins 1
against rivals 1
Criminal law 1
upanayana, initiation 1
agniṣṭoma 1
Time 1
Police 1
Buddhism 1
Pashupata Shaivism 1
hathayoga 1
brahmagavī 1
kāmyeṣṭi 1
Law 1
kṣatradharma 1
vapāhoma 1
āplavana 1
nirūḍhapaśubandha 1
placing the somakalaśa 1
jyotiṣṭoma 1
paryagnikaraṇa 1
raising the yūpa 1
Shivaism, Śiva 1
paridhi enclosings 1
agnicayana 1
twelve-day Soma rite, dvādaśāha 1
uktha 1
pṛṣṭha 1
mahāvrata 1
for political power 1
vānaprastha 1
altar, vedi 1
against sorcery 1
sorcery 1
Nara-Nārāyaṇa 1
Crime 1
army 1
theft, stealing 1
Paraśurāma 1
fever, jvara, takman 1
botany, plants 1
Love 1
Cosmology 1
snāna, bathing 1
Tripura 1
śrāddha 1
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman 1
Kṣatriya 1
sahasranāman 1
Brahmin 1
dīkṣā 1
study, śiṣya, adhyāya 1
Prostitution 1
pretakārya, rituals for the dead, funeral rites 1
Administration 1
Sagara, Sāgara 1
Prajāpati 1
Women 1
Birth, childhood, and youth 1
saṃskāras 1
Vasiṣṭha 1
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya 1
Cosmogony (gen.) 1
Brideship and marriage 1
Creation of the world 1
fighting 1
Nosology 1
hunting 1
war and rivalry of Devas and Asuras 1
aśvamedha, hayamedha 1
bad behaviour 1
Tāraka 1
subhāṣita 1
Concept Notes Count cruel lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy 24 barbarous (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" 4 harsh extremely unkind or cruel; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant" 2 inauspicious not auspicious; boding ill 2 hard not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock" 1 ferocious marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" 1 ill presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley;"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government" 1
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