viśeṣaṇa

Dictionary Definitions

[apte] a. 1 Attributive. --2 Dis- tinctive. --ṇaṃ 1 Distinguishing, discrimination. --2 Distinction, difference. --3 A word which parti- cularizes, qualifies, or defines ano- ther, an adjective, attribute, epi- thet (opp. viśeṣya); upapannamidaṃ vi- śeṣaṇaṃ vāyoḥ V. 3; viśeṣaṇairyatsākūtai- ruktiḥ parikarastu saḥ K. P. 10. (viśeṣaṇa is said to be of three kinds vyāvartaka, vidheya, and hetugarbha). --4 A distinguish- ing...

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a. 1 Attributive. --2 Dis- tinctive. --ṇaṃ 1 Distinguishing, discrimination. --2 Distinction, difference. --3 A word which parti- cularizes, qualifies, or defines ano- ther, an...

Corpus Profile

Part of Speech

NOUN

Total Occurrences

96

Texts Appeared In

30

DCS: the cast-off skin of a snake

Semantic Classification

Top Texts by Occurrence

1. Āyurvedadīpikā 22 22.9%
2. Vaiśeṣikasūtravṛtti 9 9.4%
3. Mahābhārata 5 5.2%
4. Saṃvitsiddhi 5 5.2%
5. Mṛgendraṭīkā 4 4.2%

Concordance (Sample)

• Mṛgendraṭīkā surface: viśeṣaṇa

  tejo'tiśayayogasya hetutayā śatakratur vajrīti ca viśeṣaṇadvayam

• Pañcārthabhāṣya surface: viśeṣaṇe

  tara viśeṣaṇe

• Mṛgendraṭīkā surface: viśeṣaṇa

  kasmād ityatraiva viśeṣaṇadvāreṇa hetumāha anādīti yasmād vakṣyamāṇayopapattyā t