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Words of the Gita by frequency
RankWordPart of speechOccurrencesShare %
1
च ca
indeclinable
indeclinable 384 3.69

Meanings: also; and; as well as; both; moreover

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

2
मद् mad
pronoun
pronoun 373 3.59

Meanings: I; we

3
तद् tad
pronoun
pronoun 300 2.88

Meanings: this

4
न na
indeclinable
indeclinable 248 2.38

Meanings: neither; no; nor; not

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

5
यद् yad
pronoun
pronoun 211 2.03

Meanings: what; which

6
एव eva
indeclinable
indeclinable 173 1.66

Meanings: alone; already; even; exactly so (in the sense of the later evam); immediately on; indeed; just so; merely; only; really (often at the beginning of a verse in conjunction with other particles); same; so; still; truly; very

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

7
कर्मन् karman
noun
noun 149 1.43

Meanings: (in Gr.) the object; act; action; action consisting in motion (as the third among the seven categories of the Nyāya philosophy); activity (as opposed to rest); any religious act or rite; business; calculation; effect; fate (as the certain consequence of acts in a previous life); former act as leading to inevitable results; labour; medical attendance; name office; obligation; occupation; organ of sense(or of action); performance; physicking; product; result; special duty; the tenth lunar mansion; work; [gramm.] the passive

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

8
सर्व sarva
pronoun
pronoun 137 1.32

Meanings: all; completely; different; entire; every; manifold; of all sorts; various; whole

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

9
त्वद् tvad
pronoun
pronoun 122 1.17

Meanings: you

10
इदम् idam
pronoun
pronoun 122 1.17

Meanings: this

11
आत्मन् ātman
noun
noun 112 1.08

Meanings: a son; abstract individual; Brahma; character; effort; essence; fire; firmness; nature; peculiarity (often ifc); principle of life and sensation; self; the body; the breath; the highest personal principle of life; the individual soul; the person or whole body considered as one and opposed to the separate members of the body; the soul; the sun

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

12
वच् vac
verb
verb 111 1.07

Meanings: to declare; to proclaim; to recite; to say; to speak; to tell

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

13
अपि api
indeclinable
indeclinable 98 0.94

Meanings: also; assuredly; besides; moreover; surely

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

14
अस् as
verb
verb 95 0.91

Meanings: to abide; to be; to be equal to (dat.); to be present; to belong to (gen. or dat.); to dwell; to exist; to fall to the share of; to happen; to live; to prove; to stay; to take place; to tend towards any result; to turn out

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

15
विद् vid
adjective
adjective 94 0.90

Meanings: a knower; knowing; understanding

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

16
योग yoga
noun
noun 76 0.73

Meanings: (in arithm.) addition; (in gram.) the connection of words together [v.a. inhaltliche Verbindung weit auseinander stehender Wörter]; (in Sāṃkhya) the union of soul with matter (one of the 10 Mūlikārthās or radical facts); a combined or concentrated grammatical rule or aphorism; a follower of the Yoga system; a means; a remedy; a supernatural means; a trick; a violator of confidence; a yoke; abstract contemplation; abstract meditation and mental abstraction practised as a system; acquisition; any junction; any simple act or rite conducive to Yoga or abstract meditation; application; application or concentration of the thoughts; arrangement; attaching; business; care; charm; combination; connection; construction; contact with (instr. with or without saha); conveyance; cure; deceit; device; diligence; disposition; employment; endeavour; equipping or arraying (of an army); exertion; expedient; fitness; fitting together; fixing (of an arrow on the bow-string); fraud; gain; harnessing; incantation; industry; joining; magical art; manner; meditation; method; mixture; name of a variable division of time (during which the joint motion in longitude of the sun and moon amounts to 13 degrees 20 minutes); occasion; opportunity; original or etymological meaning (as opp. to rūḍhi); partaking of; performance; possessing (instr. or comp.); profit; property; propriety; putting on (of armour); putting to (of horses); putting together; regular succession; relation; self-concentration; spy; stratagem; sum; syntactical dependence of a word; team; the act of yoking; the connection of a word with its root; the leading or principal star of a lunar asterism; total; undertaking; union; use; vehicle; way; wealth; work; Yoga personified (as the son of Dharma and Kriyā); zeal

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

17
एतद् etad
pronoun
pronoun 71 0.68

Meanings: this

18
कृ kṛ
verb
verb 70 0.67

Meanings: to heap up; to pour out; to scatter; to throw

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

19
तु tu
indeclinable
indeclinable 69 0.66

Meanings: and; but; do; now; or; then

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

20
ज्ञान jñāna
noun
noun 69 0.66

Meanings: (esp.) the higher knowledge (derived from meditation on the one Universal spirit); becoming acquainted with; conscience; engaging in; knowing; knowledge; knowledge about anything; name of a śakti

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

21
हि hi
indeclinable
indeclinable 67 0.64

Meanings: because; for; on account of

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

22
इति iti
indeclinable
indeclinable 66 0.63

Meanings: in this manner; thus (in its original signification iti refers to something that has been said or thought)

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

23
भूत bhūta
adjective
adjective 65 0.62

Meanings: actually happened; become; been; being or being like anything; consisting of; existing; fit; gone; mixed or joined with; obtained; past (n. the past); present; proper; purified; real (n. an actual occurrence); true

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

24
भू bhū
verb
verb 61 0.59

Meanings: to be; to become; to come into being; to happen; to occur

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

25
पर para
pronoun
pronoun 60 0.58

Meanings: ancient; best; better or worse than; exceeding; far; final; following; hostile; opposite; previous; remote; worst

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

26
ब्रह्मन् brahman
noun
noun 54 0.52

Meanings: (with Jainas) a particular Kalpa; brahmaṇa āyuḥ; Aurigae; a Brāhman who is a knower of Vedic texts or spells; a devot or religious man; a kind of plant (?); a lifetime of Brahmā; a particular astron. Yoga; an inhabitant of Brahmā's heaven; Brahmā or the one impersonal universal spirit manifested as a personal Creator and as the first of the triad of personal gods; name of a magician; name of a star; name of Bṛhaspati (as the priest of the gods); name of the 9th Muhūrta; name of the servant of the 10th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇi; name of Śiva; one of the 4 principal priests or tvijas; one versed in sacred knowledge; one who Prays; the Brahmapurāṇa; the intellect; the sun; the Veda (?); [gramm.] the word 'brahman'

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

27
तथा tathā
indeclinable
indeclinable 49 0.47

Meanings: in like manner; in that manner; so; so also; so be it; so it shall be (particle of assent); thus; yes

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

28
दृश् dṛś
noun
noun 49 0.47

Meanings: discerning; knowing; looking at; seeing; viewing

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

29
बुद्धि buddhi
noun
noun 48 0.46

Meanings: (in Sāṃkhya phil.) Intellect; a kind of metre; an opinion; apprehension; belief; comprehension; conjecture; correct or reasonable view; design; discernment; Intelligence personified (as a daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Dharma and mother of Bodha); idea; impression; intellect; intelligence; intention; judgment; knowledge of one's self. psychology; mind; name of a woman; name of the 5th astrol" mansion; notion; notion (often ifc. considering as); perception; presence of mind; purpose; ready wit; reason; right opinion; the power of forming and retaining conceptions and general notions; thought about or meditation on; understanding; view

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

30
युज् yuj
noun
noun 47 0.45

Meanings: (in astron.) the zodiacal sign Gemini; a pair; a sage who devotes his time to abstract contemplation; a yoke-fellow; associate; companion; comrade; couple; the number "two"; the two Aśvins

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

31
अर्जुन arjuna
adjective
adjective 46 0.44

Meanings: clear; made of silver; white

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

32
गुण guṇa
noun
noun 44 0.42

Meanings: (in geom.) a sinew; (in Śāṃkhya phil.) an ingredient or constituent of Prakṛti; a bow-string; a cook; a garland; a multiplier; a property or characteristic of all created things; a quality; a secondary dish; a single thread or strand of a cord or twine; a subordinate part of any action; an attribute of the 5 elements (each of which has its own peculiar quality or qualities as well as organ of sense); an auxiliary act; an epithet; an organ of sense; attribute or property; Bhīma-sena; chief quality of all existing beings; co-efficient (in alg.); elegance of expression; excellence; good quality; merit; peculiarity; rope; side-dish; species; string or thread; subdivision; the first gradation of a vowel; the merit of composition (consistency); the number "three"; the peculiar properties of the letters; the secondary or less immediate object of an action; the six subdivisions for a king in foreign politics; the string of a musical instrument; the vowels a, e and o; virtue

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

33
यज्ञ yajña
noun
noun 44 0.42

Meanings: a worshipper; act of worship or devotion; devotion; fire; name of a form of Viṣṇu; name of a son of Anantaka; name of a son of Ruci and Ākūti; name of Indra under Manu Svāyambhuva; name of Śiva; oblation; offering; praise; prayer; Sacrifice personified; sacrifice; sacrificer; worship

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

34
पार्थ pārtha
noun
noun 42 0.40

Meanings: a prince; king

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

35
लोक loka
noun
noun 41 0.39

Meanings: (pl.) men (as opp. to "women"); a company; a tract; common practice or usage; community (often ifc. to form collectives); country; district; folk; free motion; free or open space; intermediate space; mankind; name of a Siddha; name of the number "seven"; ordinary life; people (sometimes opp. to "king"); place; province; region; room; scope; sight; the earth or world of human beings; the faculty of seeing; the inhabitants of the world; the wide space or world; worldly affairs

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

36
अन्य anya
pronoun
pronoun 41 0.39

Meanings: anderer

37
मनस् manas
noun
noun 40 0.38

Meanings: affection; conscience; desire; excogitation; imagination; inclination; intellect; intelligence; intention; invention; mind (in its widest sense as applied to all the mental powers); mood; name of the 26th Kalpa; name of the lake Mānasa; opinion; perception; reflection; sense; spirit; temper; the breath or living soul which escapes from the body at death (called asu in animals); the spirit or spiritual principle; thought; understanding; will (in phil. the internal organ or antaḥ-karaṇa of perception and cognition)

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

38
इन्द्रिय indriya
noun
noun 40 0.38

Meanings: bodily power; exhibition of power; faculty of sense; force; organ of sense; power; power of the senses; powerful act; semen virile; sense; the number five as symbolical of the five senses; the quality which belongs especially to the mighty Indra; virile power

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

39
फल phala
noun
noun 38 0.37

Meanings: (in math.) the result of a calculation; (in rhet.) the issue or end of an action; a blade (of a sword or knife); a gaming board; a gift; a nutmeg; a ploughshare; a point or spot on a die; a shield; advantage or disadvantage; area or superficial contents of a figure; benefit; compensation; consequence; corrective equation; donation; effect; enjoyment; fruit (esp. of trees); fruit (met.); gain or loss; interest on capital; product or quotient; result; retribution (good or bad); reward or punishment; the 3 myrobalans; the kernel or seed of a fruit; the menstrual discharge; the point of an arrow; the third term in a rule of three sum; img/min.bmp; [gramm.] the root phal

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

40
सुख sukha
noun
noun 37 0.36

Meanings: atmosphere; comfort; delight in; ease; easiness; heaven; joy; name of the fourth astrol. house; pleasure; prosperity; the drug or medicinal root called Vṛddhi; the sky; water

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

41
गम् gam
verb
verb 34 0.33

Meanings: to approach; to go; to move; to reside (as a disease); to understand

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

42
काम kāma
noun
noun 34 0.33

Meanings: Artemisia vulgaris Linn.; a kind of bean; a particular form of temple; a species of mango tree; a stake in gambling; affection; desire; desire for; enjoyment; especially sexual love or sensuality; Love or Desire personified; longing; longing after; love; name of Agni; name of a metre consisting of four lines of two long syllables each; name of Baladeva; name of several men; name of the god of love; name of Viṣṇu; object of desire or of love or of pleasure; pleasure; wish

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

43
क ka
pronoun
pronoun 33 0.32

Meanings: what?; who?

44
अर्थ artha
noun
noun 31 0.30

Meanings: (in astron.) name of the second mansion; (in law) lawsuit; action; advantage; affair; aim; cause; concern; having to do with (instr.); money; motive; needing anything (instr.); object (said of the membrum virile); object of the senses; opulence; property; purpose; reason; substance; the mansion of wealth; the number five; thing; use; utility (generally named with kāma and dharma); wanting; wealth

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

45
भगवन्त् bhagavant
noun
noun 31 0.30

Meanings: name of a Buddha or a Bodhisattva or a Jina; name of Brahmā; name of Kṛṣṇa; name of Viṣṇu; name of Śiva

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

46
श्री śrī
verb
verb 31 0.30

Meanings: to cook; to mix

47
सत्त्व sattva
noun
noun 30 0.29

Meanings: a ghost; a living or sentient being; animal; creature; demon; embryo; fetus; goblin; monster; name of a son of Aṃśu; rudiment of life

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

48
सम sama
pronoun
pronoun 29 0.28

Meanings: common; constant; easy; equivalent; even; fair; flat; good; level; like; ordinary; parallel; same; similar; upright; whole

49
भाव bhāva
noun
noun 29 0.28

Meanings: (in astron.) the state or condition of a planet; (in dram.) a discreet or learned man (as a term of address respected sir); (in gram.) the fundamental notion of the verb; (in rhet.) passion; advice; affection; an astrological house or lunar mansion; an organ of sense; any state of mind or body; appearance; attachment; becoming; behaviour; being; being or living creature; birth; character; condition; conduct; conjecture; contemplation; continuance (opp. to cessation); dalliance; disposition; emotion (2 kinds of Bhāvas are enumerated); existing; heart; Intention (einer Aussage); instruction; intention; love; manner of acting; manner of being; meaning; meditation; mind; name of the 27th Kalpa; name of the 8th (42nd) year in Jupiter's cycle of 60 years; name of the author of the Bhāvaprākaśa; nature; occurring; opinion; place of birth; purport; rank; reality; sense; sentiment; soul; superhuman power; supposition; temperament; that which is or exists; the Supreme Being; the seat of the feelings or affections; the sense conveyed by the abstract noun (esp. as a term for an impersonal passive or neuter verb having neither agent nor object expressed); the womb; the world; thing or substance; true condition or state; truth; turning or transition into; universe; wanton sport; way of thinking or feeling; [gramm.] das impersonale Verbum

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

50
स्था sthā
verb
verb 28 0.27

Meanings: to adhere to; to be; to be at hand; to be fixed on; to be intent upon; to be near to; to behave; to endure; to exist; to get upon; to keep on; to last; to remain; to serve; to stand; to station one's self; to stay