kāṃsya

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[apte] a. [kaṃsāya pānapātrāya hitaṃ kaṃsīyaṃ tasya vikāraḥ yañ chalopaḥ cf. P. IV. 3. 168] Made of white copper or bell-metal; Ms. 4. 65. --syaṃ 1 Bell-metal or white copper; Ms. 5. 114; Y. 1. 190. --2 A gong of bell-metal. --syaḥ, --syaṃ A drinking vessel (of brass), a goblet; Śi. 15. 81. --Comp. --kāraḥ [Page0391-a+ 57] (rī f.) a brazier, a worker in bell- metal. --tālaḥ a cymbal. --bhājanaṃ a brass-vessel. --malaṃ...

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a. [kaṃsāya pānapātrāya hitaṃ kaṃsīyaṃ tasya vikāraḥ yañ chalopaḥ cf. P. IV. 3. 168] Made of white copper or bell-metal; Ms. 4. 65. --syaṃ 1 Bell-metal or white copper; Ms. 5....

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

230

Texts Appeared In

55

DCS: wishing; desiring (with acc. or inf.)

Semantic Classification

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Concordance (Sample)

• Rājanighaṇṭu surface: kāṃsyaṃ

  kāṃsyaṃ saurāṣṭrikaṃ ghoṣaṃ kaṃsīyaṃ vahnilohakam

• Rājanighaṇṭu surface: kāṃsyaṃ

  kāṃsyaṃ tu tiktam uṣṇaṃ cakṣuṣyaṃ vātakaphavikāraghnam

• Rājanighaṇṭu surface: kāṃsyam

  ghanāgnisahasūtrāṅgaṃ kāṃsyam uttamam īritam