vasu

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. 1 Sweet. --2 Dry. --3 Ved. Wealthy, rich. --4 Ved. Good. --n. [vas-un] 1 Wealth, riches; svayaṃ pradugdhe'sya guṇairupasnutā vasūpamānasya va- sūni medi nī Ki. 1. 18; R. 8. 31, 9. 6. --2 A jewel, gem. --3 Gold. --4 Water. --5 A thing, substance. --6 A kind of salt. --7 A medicinal root (vṛddhi). --8 A yellow kind of kidney-bean. --m. 1 N. of a class of deities (usually pl. in this sense); seyaṃ bhūrivasorvasoriva...

[mw] 1. 2. vasu., see pp. 930 and 932. 120584 933,1 189198

Root

√vasu वसु

Gaṇa 4· divadi · stambhe

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a. 1 Sweet. --2 Dry. --3 Ved. Wealthy, rich. --4 Ved. Good. --n. [vas-un] 1 Wealth, riches; svayaṃ pradugdhe'sya guṇairupasnutā vasūpamānasya va- sūni medi nī Ki. 1. 18; R. 8. 31,...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech: NOUN
Total Occurrences: 1,139
Texts Appeared In: 103

DCS: name of a Tirtha near Benares | Monier-Williams: 1. 2. vasu See pp. 930 and 932.

Semantic Classification

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Top Texts by Occurrence

Mahābhārata 263 23.1%
Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā 99 8.7%
Atharvaveda (Śaunaka) 75 6.6%
Taittirīyasaṃhitā 43 3.8%
Vājasaneyisaṃhitā (Mādhyandina) 43 3.8%

Concordance (Sample)

Bhāgavatapurāṇa surface: vasūni

dhruvāṇi manyate mohād gṛhakṣetravasūni ca
Bhāgavatapurāṇa surface: ādityā

indro marudbhir bhagavān ādityā vasavo 'śvinau
Bhāgavatapurāṇa surface: vasūnām

indro 'haṃ sarvadevānāṃ vasūnām asmi havyavāṭ