kīṭaka

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. Hard, harsh. --kaḥ 1 A worm. --2 A bard of the Māgadha tribe.

Root

Appears in 8 texts

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a. Hard, harsh. --kaḥ 1 A worm. --2 A bard of the Māgadha tribe.

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

9

Texts Appeared In

7

DCS: not containing a prayer or blessing

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā 2 22.2%
2. Viṣṇupurāṇa 2 22.2%
3. Carakasaṃhitā 1 11.1%
4. Liṅgapurāṇa 1 11.1%
5. Mahābhārata 1 11.1%

Concordance (Sample)

• Mahābhārata surface: kīṭakaḥ

  nandikaḥ karṇaveṣṭaśca siddhārthaḥ kīṭakastathā

• Carakasaṃhitā surface: kīṭakam

  goṣṭhe jātasya nyagrodhasya prāguttarābhyāṃ śākhābhyāṃ śuṅge anupahate ādāya dvā

• Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā surface: kīṭakāḥ

  śyāvatā tena vaktrādau sarpantīva ca kīṭakāḥ