ahara

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. Not taking away; so aharin. --raḥ A pure quantity.

[mw] m. N. of an Asura asura MBh. i, 2660 (v.l. su-hara) Hariv. 124,3 21761 m. of a son of Manu manu Hariv. 484 (v.l. a-dūra). 015837 124,3 21762 mfn. not to be taken away. 015838 124,3 21763 mfn. (Caus. p.) not losing (in play) Katha1s. 015839 124,3 21764

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a. Not taking away; so aharin. --raḥ A pure quantity.

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

906

Texts Appeared In

68

DCS: spirituous liquor; any inebriating drink; wine; nectar; a wagtail (esp. in the pairing season); = mattakhañjana; a kind of metre; name of Durgā; name of the wife of Varuṇa; name of one of the wives of Vasudeva | Monier-Williams: A-hAra &c. See A-√ hf .

Semantic Classification

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4. Āyurvedadīpikā 86 9.5%
5. Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā 60 6.6%

Concordance (Sample)

• Manusmṛti surface: āhāro

  jñānaṃ tapo 'gnir āhāro mṛnmano vāry upāñjanam

• Pañcārthabhāṣya surface: āhāre

  alābudāruvastrādīnām anyatamaṃ yat prāpyate tat khalu hiṃsāsteyādirahitena krame

• Bhāgavatapurāṇa surface: āhāraḥ

  āmayāvy apradīptāgnir alpāhāro 'lpaceṣṭitaḥ