uras

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[apte] a. Best, excellent. --n. (uraḥ) The breast, bosom; vyūḍhorasko vṛṣaskaṃdhaḥ R. 1. 13; Ku. 6. 51; urasi kṛ to clasp to the bosom. --Comp. --kaṭaḥ 1. the sacrificial thread hung round the neck and upon the breast. --2. an upper garment (for boys). --kṣataṃ injury to the chest. --gāmin a. going on the breast (as a reptile), creeping, crawling. --grahaḥ, --ghātaḥ a disease of the chest, pleurisy. --chadaḥ, --trāṇaṃ a...

[mw] n. (ṛ Un2. iv, 194), the chest, breast, bosom RV.; AV.; S3Br.; MBh.; S3ak. &c (urasi kṛtvā, or 37247.1 -kṛtya ind. having assented or adopted, but only urasi kṛtvā in the sense of having put upon the breast Pa1n2. 1-4, 75) 217,2 37244 n. the best of its kind L. 217,2 37245 m. N. of a man g. tikādi Pa1n2. 4-1, 154 (in the Ka1s3.) 025699 217,2 37246 n. sg. head and br east, Kaus3. 1322,2 37246.1

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a. Best, excellent. --n. (uraḥ) The breast, bosom; vyūḍhorasko vṛṣaskaṃdhaḥ R. 1. 13; Ku. 6. 51; urasi kṛ to clasp to the bosom. --Comp. --kaṭaḥ 1. the sacrificial thread hung...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

433

Texts Appeared In

69

DCS: adorning; being an ornament to (gen.) | Monier-Williams: u/ras m. N. of a man g. tikA di , Pāṇ. iv, 1, 154 (in the Kāś. )

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Mahābhārata 116 26.8%
2. Rāmāyaṇa 53 12.2%
3. Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā 41 9.5%
4. Carakasaṃhitā 29 6.7%
5. Suśrutasaṃhitā 23 5.3%

Concordance (Sample)

• Bhāgavatapurāṇa surface: uro

  vṛkṇe svaśūle bahudhāriṇā hareḥ pratyetya vistīrṇam uro vibhūtimat

• Bhāgavatapurāṇa surface: uras

  pārṣṇyāpīḍya gudaṃ prāṇaṃ hṛduraḥkaṇṭhamūrdhasu

• Rāmāyaṇa surface: urasā

  tāv anyonyāñjaliṃ kṛtvā snehāt saṃśliṣya corasā