sanātana

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[apte] a. (nī f.) 1 Perpetual, constant, eternal, permanent; eṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ. --2 Firm, fixed, set- tled; eṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ U. 5. 22. --3 Primeval, ancient. --taḥ 1 The pri- meval being, Viṣṇu; sanātanaḥ pi- taramupāgamat svayaṃ Bk. 1. 1. --2 N. of Śiva. --3 Of Brahman. --4 A guest of the Manes. --5 N. of one of the sons of Brahman. --nī 1 N. of Lakṣmī. --2 Of Durgā or Pārvatī. --3 Of Sarasvatī.

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a. (nī f.) 1 Perpetual, constant, eternal, permanent; eṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ. --2 Firm, fixed, set- tled; eṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ U. 5. 22. --3 Primeval, ancient. --taḥ 1 The pri-...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

ADJ

Total Occurrences

501

Texts Appeared In

37

DCS: Kubera's capital

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Mahābhārata 255 50.9%
2. Kūrmapurāṇa 66 13.2%
3. Liṅgapurāṇa 41 8.2%
4. Skandapurāṇa (Revākhaṇḍa) 31 6.2%
5. Rāmāyaṇa 22 4.4%

Concordance (Sample)

• Bhāgavatapurāṇa surface: sanātane

  labhate niścalāṃ bhaktiṃ mayy uddhava sanātane

• Rasārṇava surface: sanātanaḥ

  tvaṃ mātā sarvabhūtānāṃ pitā cāhaṃ sanātanaḥ

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: sanātanaḥ

  rājyabhāraniyuktānām eṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ