nāgaraka

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[apte] a. [nagare bhavaḥ vuñ] 1 Town-bred, town-born. --2 Polite, courteous, courtly; nāgarikavṛttyā saṃ- jñāpayaināṃ Ś. 5; sādhu ārya nāgarikosi V. 2. --3 Clever, shrewd, cunning (vidagdha). --kaḥ 1 A citizen. --2 A polite or courteous man, a gallant; one who shows exaggerated attention to his first mistress while he is courting some one else. --3 One who has con tracted the vices of a town. --4 A thief. --5 An artist....

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a. [nagare bhavaḥ vuñ] 1 Town-bred, town-born. --2 Polite, courteous, courtly; nāgarikavṛttyā saṃ- jñāpayaināṃ Ś. 5; sādhu ārya nāgarikosi V. 2. --3 Clever, shrewd, cunning...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

59

Texts Appeared In

4

DCS: name of a work

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha 41 69.5%
2. Kāmasūtra 16 27.1%
3. Carakasaṃhitā 1 1.7%
4. Suśrutasaṃhitā 1 1.7%

Concordance (Sample)

• Suśrutasaṃhitā surface: nāgaraka

  samāstrivṛnnāgarakābhayāḥ syurbhāgārdhakaṃ pūgaphalaṃ supakvam

• Carakasaṃhitā surface: nāgarakaiḥ

  drākṣāśṛtaṃ nāgarakaiḥ śṛtaṃ vā balāśṛtaṃ gokṣurakaiḥ śṛtaṃ vā

• Kāmasūtra surface: nāgaraka

  gṛhītavidyaḥ pratigrahajayakrayanirveśādhigatair arthair anvayāgatair ubhayair v