nidhana

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[apte] a. [nivṛttaṃ dhanaṃ yasmāt; Uṇ. 2. 81.] Poor, indigent; aho nidhanatā sarvāpadāmāspadaṃ Mk. 1. 14. --naḥ --naṃ 1 Destruction, annihilation, death, loss; svadharmeṃ nidhanaṃ śreyaḥ Bg. 3. 35; mlecchanivahanidhane kalayasi karavālaṃ Gīt. 1; kalpāṃteṣvapi na prayāti nidhanaṃ vidyā- khyamaṃtardhanaṃ Bh. 2. 16; Pt. 1. 21; 5. 95. --2 The concluding passage at the end of a Sāman sung in chorus. --3 The finale (in music)....

[mw] mfn. (for 2., see col. 3) having no property, poor L. 069895 548,2 108578 f. poverty Mr2icch. i, 13; Hit. i,128. 069896 548,2 108579

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a. [nivṛttaṃ dhanaṃ yasmāt; Uṇ. 2. 81.] Poor, indigent; aho nidhanatā sarvāpadāmāspadaṃ Mk. 1. 14. --naḥ --naṃ 1 Destruction, annihilation, death, loss; svadharmeṃ nidhanaṃ śreyaḥ...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

79

Texts Appeared In

38

DCS: smoke-coloured

Semantic Classification

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4. Skandapurāṇa (Revākhaṇḍa) 5 6.3%
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Concordance (Sample)

• Spandakārikānirṇaya surface: nidhānam

  yathāsyodyuktasya balavadālambanavaśoditānāyāsatadanyasakalavṛttikṣayamayīṣu niy

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: nidhānaṃ

  audāryeṇāvagacchāmi nidhānaṃ tapasām imam

• Spandakārikānirṇaya surface: nidhāna

  kathamākramyārādhakasya kalpitadehādipramātṛbhūmiṃ svātmanyeva nimagnāṃ kṛtvātha