paṇya

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[apte] a. [paṇ-karmaṇi yat] 1 Saleable, vendible. --2 To be transacted. --ṇyaḥ 1 A ware, an article, a commodity; pū- rābabhāse vipaṇisthapaṇyā R. 16. 41; pa- ṇyānāṃ gāṃdhikaṃ paṇyaṃ Pt. 1. 13; saubhāgyapa- ṇyākaraḥ Mk. 8. 38; Ms. 5. 129; M. 1. 17; Y. 2. 245. --2 Trade, busi- ness. --3 Price; mahatā puṇyapaṇyena krīteyaṃ kāyanaustvayā Śānti. 3. 1. --Comp. --aṃganā, --yoṣit f., --vilā- sinī, --strī f. a harlot, a courtezan;...

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a. [paṇ-karmaṇi yat] 1 Saleable, vendible. --2 To be transacted. --ṇyaḥ 1 A ware, an article, a commodity; pū- rābabhāse vipaṇisthapaṇyā R. 16. 41; pa- ṇyānāṃ gāṃdhikaṃ paṇyaṃ Pt....

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

143

Texts Appeared In

27

DCS: a kind of ass

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Arthaśāstra 50 35.0%
2. Nāradasmṛti 16 11.2%
3. Kātyāyanasmṛti 10 7.0%
4. Yājñavalkyasmṛti 10 7.0%
5. Mahābhārata 9 6.3%

Concordance (Sample)

• Manusmṛti surface: paṇye

  nityaṃ śuddhaḥ kāruhastaḥ paṇye yac ca prasāritam

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: paṇya

  prabhūtaratnaṃ bahupaṇyasaṃcayaṃ dadarśa rāmo ruciraṃ mahāpatham

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: paṇyair

  saṃvṛtaṃ vividhaiḥ paṇyair bhakṣyair uccāvacair api