Topic |
Frequency |
jātaka, avadāna |
128 |
Buddha's life |
77 |
Agni |
55 |
Mahābhārata |
54 |
Indra |
46 |
marriage, wedding |
41 |
Viśve devāḥ |
35 |
Brideship and marriage |
34 |
Mahāyāna |
32 |
Dharmaśāstra |
29 |
narrative literature |
29 |
Soma |
28 |
dharma |
27 |
war |
27 |
Skanda |
23 |
agnicayana |
23 |
death rites, funeral rites, aurdhvadehika, pitṛmedha |
22 |
healing rituals, against diseases |
22 |
(Im-)purity |
22 |
animal sacrifice, paśubandha |
21 |
Sacrifice, yajña |
20 |
Soma sacrifice |
20 |
Kashmirian Shivaism |
19 |
penance, prāyaścitta |
19 |
Alchemy |
18 |
nāmakaraṇa, nāmakarman |
18 |
Inheritance, heritage, heirs |
17 |
agnyādhāna, agnyādheya |
17 |
rājasūya |
17 |
vājapeya |
17 |
Law |
17 |
cow |
17 |
Teacher (guru) and pupil (śiṣya), ācārya |
17 |
Behaviour, strīdharma |
17 |
Viśvāmitra |
17 |
Shivaism, Śiva |
17 |
Maruts |
17 |
prāyaścitta |
17 |
Bhakti |
16 |
saṃskāras |
16 |
King, rājanīti |
15 |
Genealogies |
15 |
Viṣṇu, Vishnuism |
14 |
Kāmaśāstra |
14 |
aśvamedha, hayamedha |
14 |
śrāddha |
14 |
Women |
13 |
purity, impurity, śuddhi, śodhana, śauca |
13 |
pretakārya, rituals for the dead, funeral rites |
13 |
aṣṭakā |
12 |
birth, pregnancy |
12 |
botany, plants |
12 |
Medicine |
11 |
long live, āyus |
11 |
vaśā |
11 |
arghya |
11 |
upanayana, initiation |
11 |
varṇas, castes |
10 |
Asceticism, tapas |
10 |
Pārvatī |
10 |
gṛhastha, householder |
9 |
fable |
9 |
for protection, safety, and luck |
9 |
karman doctrine |
9 |
Giving, dāna |
9 |
children |
9 |
Aśvins |
9 |
for long life, longevity, old age |
9 |
Lexicography |
9 |
Dhruva aka. Polar Star |
9 |
Buddhism |
9 |
worship |
9 |
good behaviour |
9 |
āhavanīya |
8 |
Moral literature |
8 |
Pitṛ worship, pitṛyajña |
8 |
Sūrya, Savitṛ, sun |
8 |
Witness |
8 |
caula |
8 |
omina, presigns, nimittas |
8 |
Uṣas |
8 |
ukhya |
8 |
Zoology |
8 |
Magic, rites with a purpose, abhicāra |
8 |
Earth, bhūmi, pṛthivī |
7 |
dīkṣā |
7 |
Materia medica |
7 |
prāṇa etc. |
7 |
Śunaḥśepa |
7 |
Aditi |
7 |
water, rain |
6 |
vānaprastha |
6 |
Vedic hymns, śastras |
6 |
piṇḍa |
6 |
dyāvāpṛthivī, heaven and earth |
6 |
darśapūrṇamāsa iṣṭi, full-moon sacrifice |
6 |
Liberation, mokṣa, release |
6 |
sacrificial fire |
6 |
cūḍākaraṇa |
6 |
jātakarman |
6 |
sexuality |
6 |
agniṣṭoma |
6 |
study, śiṣya, adhyāya |
6 |
pregnancy |
6 |
dāna, giving |
6 |
gavām ayana, gavāmayana |
6 |
Debts and interest |
6 |
Family |
6 |
Ordeal |
6 |
Peace and war |
5 |
agnihotra |
5 |
pūjā |
5 |
ātman |
5 |
Varuṇa |
5 |
Paraśurāma |
5 |
eldest brother |
5 |
Rāmāyaṇa |
5 |
Urvaśī and Purūravas |
5 |
Hospitality, atithi, guests, ātithya |
5 |
medhājanana |
5 |
Tīrthas |
5 |
Brahmin |
5 |
against bad omina and presigns |
5 |
twelve-day Soma rite, dvādaśāha |
5 |
subhāṣita |
5 |
kṣatradharma |
5 |
Theatre, nāṭyaśāstra |
5 |
saṃsāra |
4 |
sautrāmaṇī |
4 |
salutation, greeting, abhivādana |
4 |
daiva vs. puruṣakāra |
4 |
Pūṣan |
4 |
mixture of castes, varṇasaṃkara |
4 |
for a good birth |
4 |
Grammar |
4 |
avadāna |
4 |
against sins, misdeeds |
4 |
childhood rites |
4 |
(Non-)vegetarism, meat |
4 |
pravargya |
4 |
vrata |
4 |
Pashupata Shaivism |
4 |
annaprāśana, prāśanakarman |
4 |
son, advantage of having sons |
4 |
fever, jvara, takman |
4 |
worms, krimi, ghuṇa |
4 |
daughter |
4 |
pediatrics, child diseases |
4 |
madhuparka |
4 |
Names of Śiva, sahasranāman |
4 |
Andhaka |
4 |
River deities |
3 |
pṛṣṭha |
3 |
vyavahāra |
3 |
ukhā |
3 |
Vedic metres in sacrifice |
3 |
against poison, venom |
3 |
vaiśvadeva |
3 |
against demons, rakṣas, evil spirits |
3 |
puṃsavana |
3 |
mahāvrata |
3 |
for love, love charms |
3 |
sattra |
3 |
dogs |
3 |
kāmyeṣṭi |
3 |
anadhyāya, interrupting the Veda study |
3 |
Mitra |
3 |
sacrificial post, yūpa |
3 |
usury, lending money |
3 |
alms, bhikṣā |
3 |
third pressing, tṛtīyasavana |
3 |
Kaṃsa |
3 |
Saṃjñā and Vivasvant |
3 |
avatāras |
3 |
theft, stealing |
3 |
Durgā |
3 |
bad behaviour |
3 |
āśrama |
3 |
Criminal law |
3 |
mantra |
3 |
Cosmography |
3 |
brahmacarya |
3 |
Śrī, Lakṣmī |
3 |
Kṛṣṇa |
3 |
Trade |
3 |
rebirth, transmigration |
3 |
Prostitution |
3 |
sāman |
3 |
cattle |
2 |
sahasranāman |
2 |
for children, offspring, progeny |
2 |
poison, antidotes |
2 |
amulets |
2 |
for concord, harmony |
2 |
against anger, wrath, fury |
2 |
arrow |
2 |
Behaviour, politeness |
2 |
pātaka |
2 |
against bad dreams |
2 |
leprosy, kilāsa |
2 |
for cattle, cows |
2 |
gambling |
2 |
People |
2 |
Geography |
2 |
godāna |
2 |
Budha, Mercury |
2 |
vyākaraṇa |
2 |
upaniṣkramaṇa |
2 |
begging, bhikṣu, bhikṣā |
2 |
punarādheya |
2 |
śūlagava |
2 |
Rāma(candra) |
2 |
Churning of the Milk Ocean |
2 |
deluge, Manu |
2 |
Cyavana |
2 |
rejuvenation |
2 |
Sleeping |
2 |
Family law |
2 |
Travel |
2 |
cremation ground, śmaśāna |
2 |
Underworld, hell, naraka |
2 |
Debt |
2 |
cāturmāsya |
2 |
dikpālas, guardians of the quarters |
2 |
brahman priest |
2 |
Aphrodisiacs |
2 |
punishment for crime |
2 |
garbhādhāna |
2 |
creates fever |
2 |
āpyāyana |
2 |
house building, correct residence, śālākarman, vastukarman |
2 |
Pradyumna |
2 |
Nirṛti |
2 |
Rudra |
2 |
Ādityas |
2 |
Ṛbhus |
2 |
Mineralogy, jewels, metals |
2 |
Kṛṣṇa and the Gopīs |
2 |
Tvaṣṭṛ |
2 |
hiṃsā, ahiṃsā |
2 |
Birth, childhood, and youth |
2 |
Dakṣa's sacrifice and Satī |
2 |
binding the animal to the yūpa |
2 |
bali |
2 |
India |
2 |
Sarasvatī, Vāc, speech |
2 |
gold |
2 |
selling children, adoption |
2 |
Gaṅgā, Ganges |
2 |
sprinkling the animal, prokṣaṇa |
2 |
upākaraṇa |
2 |
śruti, Veda |
2 |
āpaddharma |
2 |
anointing the animal, añjana |
2 |
unsteadiness of life |
2 |
Aṣṭāvakra |
2 |
putting to sleep |
2 |
vṛṣotsarga |
2 |
Pulomā/an |
2 |
Māndhātṛ |
2 |
Manu, manvantara |
2 |
Politics |
2 |
jñāna, ajñāna, vidyā, śruta, knowledge |
2 |
yuga theory |
1 |
odanasava |
1 |
Creation of the world |
1 |
nirūḍhapaśubandha |
1 |
Yakṣī, Yakṣa |
1 |
Religion and Philosophy |
1 |
pralaya, destruction of the world |
1 |
gṛhapraveśa |
1 |
kaukilī |
1 |
somakraya, buying Soma |
1 |
kṛcchra |
1 |
loss of caste, becoming a patita, patanīya |
1 |
anvaṣṭakya |
1 |
samāvartana |
1 |
garbharakṣaṇa |
1 |
driving the animal to the sacrificial area, upākaraṇa |
1 |
Nosology |
1 |
sāyaṃprātarhoma, sāyamāhuti, prātarāhuti |
1 |
raising the yūpa |
1 |
saṃdhyā, twilight worship |
1 |
(handing over the) daṇḍa |
1 |
svaru |
1 |
Tripura |
1 |
Cosmogony |
1 |
killing the sacrificial animal, saṃjñapana |
1 |
sapiṇḍīkaraṇa |
1 |
pṛṣātaka |
1 |
ābhyudayika |
1 |
correct behaviour |
1 |
cātvāla |
1 |
Cosmogony (gen.) |
1 |
āplavana |
1 |
studying the mahānāmnīs |
1 |
keśānta |
1 |
vasāhoma |
1 |
midday pavamāna |
1 |
upāyakauśalya |
1 |
against kṛtyās |
1 |
varaṇa, kanyāvaraṇa, wooing |
1 |
dhanurveda |
1 |
aptoryāman |
1 |
Time |
1 |
ekāha |
1 |
gṛhya rituals |
1 |
Māṇḍavya |
1 |
introductory sacrifice, prāyaṇīya |
1 |
Āpri hymn |
1 |
fast, upavāsa, upavasatha |
1 |
takman |
1 |
diseases |
1 |
skin diseases |
1 |
pathogenesis, origin of a disease |
1 |
daṇḍa, punishment |
1 |
for material success, riches, wealth, prosperity |
1 |
against enemies, armies, weapons |
1 |
against sorcery |
1 |
Widow |
1 |
brahman |
1 |
Parjanya, rain |
1 |
court live |
1 |
friendship |
1 |
Palmistry |
1 |
Marutta |
1 |
Tāraka |
1 |
Vāta, Vāyu, wind |
1 |
(prophesy about the) kaliyuga |
1 |
dakṣiṇā |
1 |
Aṅgiras and his descendants (Āṅgirasas) |
1 |
Kṛṣṇa kills Naraka |
1 |
Property of Brahmins |
1 |
dvīpa |
1 |
Bharata |
1 |
Pṛthu and the Earth |
1 |
Sunda and Upasunda |
1 |
praise of Viṣṇu (namas) |
1 |
vighasa, eating the remainder of food |
1 |
Vāstoṣpati |
1 |
Crime |
1 |
Love |
1 |
sāvitrī |
1 |
āgrayaṇa |
1 |
has the hide of man |
1 |
Customs and taxes |
1 |
snāna, bathing |
1 |
sīmantonnayana |
1 |
eating, food, anna |
1 |
riddle hymns |
1 |
immortality, amṛta |
1 |
abhiṣeka |
1 |
brahmagavī |
1 |
Nature poetry |
1 |
weapons, arms |
1 |
Names of Viṣṇu, sahasranāman |
1 |
ahīna |
1 |
Deities and cults |
1 |
against jealousy |
1 |
Surabhī, the wishing cow |
1 |
Atharvaveda |
1 |
priest, ṛtvij |
1 |
rape, sexual harassment |
1 |
Paurṇāmāsī |
1 |
against dangers, difficult situations |
1 |
Agriculture |
1 |
Vedic metres, prosody |
1 |
niṣkevalya śastra |
1 |
micro-macro cosmos speculation |
1 |
against death, Nirṛti |
1 |
against serpents, snakebites |
1 |
worship of relics, stūpas |
1 |
chastity |
1 |
ucchiṣṭa, remainder of the sacrifice |
1 |