balya

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. [balāya hitaṃ yat] 1 Strong, powerful. --2 Giving strength. --lyaḥ A Buddhist mendicant. --lyaṃ Semen virile.

[mw] See p. 723, col. 2. 091178 724,2 143432

Appears in 23 texts

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a. [balāya hitaṃ yat] 1 Strong, powerful. --2 Giving strength. --lyaḥ A Buddhist mendicant. --lyaṃ Semen virile.

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

108

Texts Appeared In

24

DCS: alum

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Mahābhārata 54 50.0%
2. Rāmāyaṇa 11 10.2%
3. Āyurvedadīpikā 6 5.6%
4. Garuḍapurāṇa 5 4.6%
5. Skandapurāṇa (Revākhaṇḍa) 5 4.6%

Concordance (Sample)

• Manusmṛti surface: bālye

  bālye pitur vaśe tiṣṭhet pāṇigrāhasya yauvane

• Skandapurāṇa surface: bālyāt

  tasya bālyātprabhṛtyeva vāsiṣṭhasya mahātmanaḥ

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: bālyāt

  bālyāt prabhṛti susnigdho lakṣmaṇo lakṣmivardhanaḥ