padminī

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] 1 The lotus plant; suraga- ja iva bibhrat padminīṃ daṃtalagnāṃ Ku. 3. 76; R. 16. 68; Me. 83; M. 2. 13. --2 An assemblage of lotus flowers. --3 A pond or lake abounding in lotuses. --4 The fibrous stalk of a lotus. --5 A female elephant. --6 A woman of the first of the four class- es into which writers on erotical science divide women; the ratimaṃjarī thus defines her: --bhavati kamalanetrā nā- sikākṣudraraṃdhrā...

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1 The lotus plant; suraga- ja iva bibhrat padminīṃ daṃtalagnāṃ Ku. 3. 76; R. 16. 68; Me. 83; M. 2. 13. --2 An assemblage of lotus flowers. --3 A pond or lake abounding in lotuses....

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

102

Texts Appeared In

22

DCS: a spy

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Mahābhārata 31 30.4%
2. Rāmāyaṇa 16 15.7%
3. Smaradīpikā 11 10.8%
4. Śukasaptati 6 5.9%
5. Rājanighaṇṭu 5 4.9%

Concordance (Sample)

• Rasaratnākara surface: padminī

  vidārīpadminīkandaṃ vānarībījakaṃ samam

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: padminīḥ

  haṃsakāraṇḍavākīrṇāḥ padminīḥ sādhupuṣpitāḥ

• Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā surface: padminī

  āmūlaṃ veṣṭitaṃ darbhaiḥ padminīpaṅkalepitam