kṣara

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. [kṣarati syaṃdate muṃcati vā, kṣar-ac] 1 Melting away. --2 Moveable. --3 Perishable; kṣaraḥ sarvāṇi bhūtāni kūṭastho- 'kṣara ucyate Bg. 15. 16. --raḥ A cloud. --raṃ 1 Water. --2 The body. --3 Ignorance. --4 The Supreme Being. --5 Cause and effect. --Comp. --jaḥ a. (also kṣareja) a. produced by dis- tillation or from a cloud. --bhāva a. mutable.

Root

Appears in 14 texts

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a. [kṣarati syaṃdate muṃcati vā, kṣar-ac] 1 Melting away. --2 Moveable. --3 Perishable; kṣaraḥ sarvāṇi bhūtāni kūṭastho- 'kṣara ucyate Bg. 15. 16. --raḥ A cloud. --raṃ 1 Water....

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

881

Texts Appeared In

72

DCS: a bow; an archer; a warrior | Monier-Williams: kzAra , ˚raka , ˚raRa , &c. See √ kzar .

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā 167 19.0%
2. Suśrutasaṃhitā 135 15.3%
3. Carakasaṃhitā 69 7.8%
4. Mugdhāvabodhinī 69 7.8%
5. Ānandakanda 38 4.3%

Concordance (Sample)

• Manusmṛti surface: kṣāra

  śaucaṃ yathārhaṃ kartavyaṃ kṣārāmlodakavāribhiḥ

• Mṛgendraṭīkā surface: kṣāra

  pāśāvṛtadṛkkriyāvṛttiṣv aṇuṣu tattatpāśaśaktyanuvartanadvāreṇa janmadrāvaṇādiduḥ

• Agastīyaratnaparīkṣā surface: kṣāra

  kṣārāmlair lepayed vajraṃ gharme ca pariśodhayet