pakṣin

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. (ṇī f.) [pakṣa astyarthe ini] 1 Winged. --2 Furnished with wings. --3 Siding with, adhering to the party of. --m. 1 A bird. --2 An arrow. --3 An epithet of Śiva. --Comp. --iṃdraḥ, --pravaraḥ, -rāj m. --rājaḥ siṃhaḥ, -svāmin m. epithets of Garuḍa. --kīṭaḥ an insignificant bird. --patiḥ an epithet of Sampāti. --pānīyaśā- likā a trough or reservoir for watering birds. --puṃgavaḥ an epithet of Jaṭāyu. --bālakaḥ,...

Root

Appears in 77 texts

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a. (ṇī f.) [pakṣa astyarthe ini] 1 Winged. --2 Furnished with wings. --3 Siding with, adhering to the party of. --m. 1 A bird. --2 An arrow. --3 An epithet of Śiva. --Comp....

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

458

Texts Appeared In

58

DCS: very hard; too hard

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Mahābhārata 169 36.9%
2. Rāmāyaṇa 60 13.1%
3. Hitopadeśa 30 6.6%
4. Skandapurāṇa (Revākhaṇḍa) 24 5.2%
5. Liṅgapurāṇa 12 2.6%

Concordance (Sample)

• Manusmṛti surface: pakṣiṇas

  oṣadhyaḥ paśavo vṛkṣās tiryañcaḥ pakṣiṇas tathā

• Manusmṛti surface: pakṣi

  pakṣijagdhaṃ gavā ghrātam avadhūtam avakṣutam

• Skandapurāṇa surface: pakṣiṇāṃ

  pakṣiṇāṃ sapiśācānāṃ ye cānye tatsamīpagāḥ