Sanskrit word senses marked with topical category "Books"
Parent categories: Literature, Mass media, Culture, Entertainment, Writing, Media, Society, Human behaviour, Language, Communication, Human
Subcategories: Ramayana, Reference works
Total 25 word senses
- अङ्गद (Noun) a bracelet worn on the upper arm, armband
- अतिकाय (Noun) Name of a demon, son of Ravana in the Hindu epic Ramayana
- अयोध्या (Proper name) A city, the administrative headquarters of Ayodhya district, Uttar Pradesh, India, on the bank of the Sarayu river.
- ऊर्मिला (Proper name) Name of daughter of Janaka and sister of Sita in Hindu epic Ramayana.
- किष्किन्ध (Noun) A city mentioned in the Indian epic Ramayana, the kingdom of the monkey kings Vali and Sugriva. located near the Tungabhadra River.
- कोश (Noun) dictionary, lexicon or vocabulary - kosha
- कोश (Noun) kosha: a term for the three sheaths or succession of cases which make up the various frames of the body enveloping the soul
- कौशल्या (Proper name) Name of Dasharatha's wife and Rāma's mother
- जीर्ण (Adjective) worn out, decayed
- जीर्ण (Noun) an old man, a whitebeard
- जीर्ण (Noun) old age, senectude
- दशरथ (Proper name) Name of Rāma's father (descendant of Ikshvaku, sovereign of Ayodhya).
- ध्रुव (Adjective) firm, stable
- ध्रुव (Noun) the celestial pole, the axis mundi
- ध्रुव (Proper name) the star Polaris
- निघण्टु (Noun) name of several works
- भरत (Proper name) Bharata, a legendary emperor
- भरत (Proper name) Bharata, a son of Dasharatha and the younger brother of Rāma in the Ramayana
- भरत (Proper name) Bharata, a son of Rishabhanatha
- भिक्षा (Noun) wages
- वज्राङ्गबलिन् (Proper name) Hanuman
- विभीषण (Proper name) Name of a brother of Ravana (his other brothers were कुबेर [by a different mother] and कुम्भ-कर्ण ; both रावण and विभीषण are said to have propitiated ब्रह्मा by their penances, so that the god granted them both boons, and the boon chosen by विभीषण was that he should never, even in the greatest calamity, stoop to any mean action ; hence he is represented in the रामायण as endeavouring to counteract …
- शब्दकोश (Noun) dictionary
- शूर्पणखा (Proper name) Name of the sister of Ravana in Ramayana.(she fell in love with राम-चन्द्र and, being rejected by him and insulted by सीता's laughter, assumed a hideous form and threatened to eat her up, but was beaten off by लक्ष्मण, who cut off her ears and nose and thus doubly disfigured her ; in revenge she incited her brother to carry off सीता)
- सुग्रीव (Proper name) King of Kiṣkindhā, a son of Sūrya and the younger brother of Vālī in the Rāmāyaṇa.
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