kaumudī

[kumudasyeyaṃ prakāśakatvāt aṇ ṅī- ṣ Tv.] 1 Moonlight; śaśinā saha yāti kaumudī Ku. 4. 33; śaśinamupagateyaṃ kaumudī meghamuktaṃ R. 6. 85; (the word is thus popularly...

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[apte] [kumudasyeyaṃ prakāśakatvāt aṇ ṅī- ṣ Tv.] 1 Moonlight; śaśinā saha yāti kaumudī Ku. 4. 33; śaśinamupagateyaṃ kaumudī meghamuktaṃ R. 6. 85; (the word is thus popularly derived:--kau modaṃte janā yasyāṃ tenāsau kaumudī matā). --2 Any- thing serving as moonlight, i. e. caus- ing delight and balmy coolness; tva- masya lokasya ca netrakaumudī Ku. 5. 71; yā kaumudī nayanayorbhavataḥ sujanmā Māl. 1. 34; cf. caṃdrikā. --3...

Root

√ku कु

Gaṇa 2· adadi· Ātmanepada · śabde

to hum, to speak inarticulately, to sound

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Corpus Profile

Part of Speech: NOUN
Occurrences: 20
Texts: 12

DCS: assimilation of quantities by fractional decrease; reduction of quantities to uniformity by the subtraction of a fraction | Monier-Williams: N. of a river, Śaṃkar.

Occurrences

Appears in 19 texts.

Abhidhanacintamani Amarakosa Anandakanda Bharatamanjari Brhatkathaslokasamgraha Gitagovinda Haribhaktivilasa Harsacarita Hitopadesa Kamasutra Kumarasambhava Kurmapurana Matsyapurana Rajanighantu Satakatraya Satvatatantra Visnupurana mahabharata mahabharata

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Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha 3 · 15.0%Haribhaktivilāsa 3 · 15.0%Kāmasūtra 3 · 15.0%Kumārasaṃbhava 2 · 10.0%Viṣṇupurāṇa 2 · 10.0%

Concordance Sample

Matsyapurāṇasurface: kaumudī

iti tatra pure'maradviṣāṇāṃ sapadi hi paścimakaumudī tadāsīt

Ānandakandasurface: kaumudī

mandānilaṃ puṣpamālyaṃ kaumudīratnabhūṣaṇam

Kūrmapurāṇasurface: kaumudī

nārāyaṇī narodbhūtiḥ kaumudī liṅgadhāriṇī