tikta

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. [tij-bāºkartari kta] 1 Bitter, pungent (as one of the six flavours or Rasas); Me. 20. --2 Fragrant; Me. 33. --ktaḥ 1 Bitter taste; (see under kaṭu). --2 The Kuṭaja tree. --3 Pungency. --4 Fragrance. --Comp. --gaṃdhā mustard. --taṃḍulā long pep- per. --dhātuḥ bile. --phalaḥ, --maricaḥ the clearing-nut plant.

[mw] ktaka, see below. 054845 446,1 84746

Appears in 48 texts

Lexicon Preview

a. [tij-bāºkartari kta] 1 Bitter, pungent (as one of the six flavours or Rasas); Me. 20. --2 Fragrant; Me. 33. --ktaḥ 1 Bitter taste; (see under kaṭu). --2 The Kuṭaja tree. --3...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

41

Texts Appeared In

11

DCS: name of a teacher VB

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā 22 53.7%
2. Madanapālanighaṇṭu 6 14.6%
3. Rājanighaṇṭu 4 9.8%
4. Rasendrasārasaṃgraha 2 4.9%
5. Ānandakanda 1 2.4%

Concordance (Sample)

• Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā surface: tiktā

  mustāvacāgnidviniśādvitiktābhallātapāṭhātriphalāviṣākhyāḥ

• Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā surface: tiktā

  tiktāviṣādvayavarāgirijanmatārkṣyaiḥ siddhaṃ paraṃ nikhilakuṣṭhanibarhaṇāya

• Rājanighaṇṭu surface: tiktā

  mūrvā divyalatā mirā madhurasā devī triparṇī madhuśreṇī bhinnadalāmarī madhumatī