piṣṭa

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] p. p. [piṣ-kta] 1 Ground, pow- dered, crushed; Bv. 1. 12. --2 Rub- bed together, squeezed or clasped (as the hands). --3 Kneaded. --ṣṭaṃ 1 Anything ground, a ground sub- stance. --2 Flour, meal; piṣṭaṃ pinaṣṭi ‘he grinds flour’; i. e. does a useless [Page0704-b+ 55] work or a profitless repetition. --3 Lead. --Comp. --udakaṃ water mixed with flour. --pacana a pan for parch- ing flour, a boiler &c. --paśuḥ an effi-...

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p. p. [piṣ-kta] 1 Ground, pow- dered, crushed; Bv. 1. 12. --2 Rub- bed together, squeezed or clasped (as the hands). --3 Kneaded. --ṣṭaṃ 1 Anything ground, a ground sub- stance....

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

115

Texts Appeared In

38

DCS: Ocimum Pilosum

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Suśrutasaṃhitā 27 23.5%
2. Carakasaṃhitā 13 11.3%
3. Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā 9 7.8%
4. Mahābhārata 7 6.1%
5. Arthaśāstra 6 5.2%

Concordance (Sample)

• Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā surface: piṣṭa

  māṣaniṣpāvaśālūkabisapiṣṭavirūḍhakam

• Carakasaṃhitā surface: piṣṭa

  yathoktaguṇānām āmalakānāṃ sahasraṃ piṣṭasvedanavidhinā payasa ūṣmaṇā susvinnama

• Āyurvedadīpikā surface: piṣṭa

  piṣṭasvedanavidhineti yathā piṣṭakaṃ toyaparipūritapātroparidattatṛṇādisaṃsthita