śaila

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. (lī f.) [śilāḥ saṃtyasya prajñāº aṇ] Rocky, craggy, stony. --laḥ 1 A mountain, hill; śaile śaile na māṇi- kyaṃ mauktikaṃ na gaje gaje Chāṇ. 55; śai- lau malayadardurau R. 4. 51. --2 A dike, dam. --3 A rock, big stone. --laṃ 1 Borax, benzoin. --2 Bitumen. --3 A kind of collyrium. --Comp. --aṃśaḥ N. of a country. --agraṃ the peak of a mountain. --aṭaḥ 1. a mountaineer, a barbarian. --2. an attendant on an idol....

[mw] mf (I) n. (fr. śilā) made of stone, stony, rocky MBh.; Hariv. &c 1089,3 221047 mf (I) n. stone-like, rigid (with āsana n. a partic. manner of sitting) Cat. 1089,3 221048 m. (ifc. f (A).) a rock, crag, hill, mountain (there are seven [ or, accord, to some, eight ] mythical mountain ranges separating the divisions of the earth, viz. niṣadha, hema-kūṭa, nīla, śveta, śṛn3gin, mālyavat, gandha-mādana VP.;) Mn.; MBh. &c...

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a. (lī f.) [śilāḥ saṃtyasya prajñāº aṇ] Rocky, craggy, stony. --laḥ 1 A mountain, hill; śaile śaile na māṇi- kyaṃ mauktikaṃ na gaje gaje Chāṇ. 55; śai- lau malayadardurau R. 4....

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

671

Texts Appeared In

59

DCS: worship of the goddess ṣhaṣṭhī (esp. performed by a woman on the sixth day after delivery) | Monier-Williams: a sort of collyrium.

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Mahābhārata 184 27.4%
2. Rāmāyaṇa 170 25.3%
3. Matsyapurāṇa 42 6.3%
4. Viṣṇupurāṇa 39 5.8%
5. Skandapurāṇa (Revākhaṇḍa) 33 4.9%

Concordance (Sample)

• Bhāgavatapurāṇa surface: śaila

  puṇyadeśasaricchailavanāśramavatīṃ mahīm

• Skandapurāṇa surface: śaila

  brūhi tuṣṭo 'smi te śaila tapasānena suvrata

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: śaila

  śailaśṛṅgasamutsedhaṃ dṛptaśārdūlavikramam