upādhyāya

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[mw] m. (i), a teacher, preceptor (who subsists by teaching a part of the Veda veda or Veda1n3gas vedANga s, grammar &c; he is distinguished from the A1ca1rya ācārya q.v.) Mn. iv, 141, &c; Ya1jn5. i, 35; MBh.; S3ak. &c 213,3 36692 f (A or I) a female teacher Ka1ty. on Pa1n2. 3-13, 21 213,3 36693 f. the wife of a teacher Ka1ty. on Pa1n2. 4-1, 49. 025283 213,3 36694 n. N. of a grammar (frequently referred to by the Comm....

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m. (i), a teacher, preceptor (who subsists by teaching a part of the Veda veda or Veda1n3gas vedANga s, grammar &c; he is distinguished from the A1ca1rya ācārya q.v.) Mn. iv, 141,...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

136

Texts Appeared In

23

DCS: name of a writer on Kāmaśāstra | Monier-Williams: upA Dy-Aya f( A or I ) a female teacher, Kāty. on Pāṇ. iii, 13, 21

Semantic Classification

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1. Mahābhārata 80 58.8%
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4. Harṣacarita 3 2.2%
5. Narmamālā 3 2.2%

Concordance (Sample)

• Manusmṛti surface: upādhyāyaṃ

  ācāryaṃ svam upādhyāyaṃ pitaraṃ mātaraṃ gurum

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: upādhyāya

  upādhyāyagaṇāḥ sarve yajamānam athābruvan

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: upādhyāya

  upādhyāyavacaḥ śrutvā tasmin sadasi pārthivaḥ