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Words of the Gita by frequency
RankWordPart of speechOccurrencesShare %
51
मन् man
verb
verb 28 0.27

Meanings: to be of opinion; to believe; to conjecture; to honour; to imagine; to perceive; to regard or consider any one or anything (acc.) as; to suppose; to think; to understand

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

52
ज्ञा jñā
verb
verb 28 0.27

Meanings: to apprehend; to ascertain; to become acquainted with; to experience; to have knowledge; to investigate; to know; to know as; to know or perceive that; to perceive; to recognise; to regard or consider as; to understand

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53
प्रकृति prakṛti
noun
noun 28 0.27

Meanings: (in anat.) temperament; (in arithm.) a co-efficient multiplier; (in gram.) the crude or elementary form of a word; (in mythol.) a goddess; (in polit.) a king's ministers; (in the Sāṃkhya phil.) the original producer of (or rather passive power of creating) the material world; (pl.) name of a class of deities under Manu Raibhya; a eunuch; a mother; a woman or womankind; affair; an animal; an uninflected word; artisans; base; cause; character; citizens; constitution; disposition; extraction; fundamental form; matter; ministry; model; Nature (distinguished from puruṣa); name of 2 classes of metres; name of a woman; name of a work; nature; origin; original or primary substance (opp. to vi-kṛti); original source; pattern; root; rule (esp. in ritual); standard; temper; territory; the 8 producers or primary essences which evolve the whole visible world; the body of ministers or counsellors; the constituent elements or powers of the state; the male or female organ of generation; the original or natural form or condition of anything; the personified will of the Supreme in the creation; the predominance of one of the humours at the time of generation; the subjects of a king; the third nature; the various sovereigns to be considered in case of war

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54
योगिन् yogin
adjective
adjective 27 0.26

Meanings: accompanied by; being in conjunction with; joined or connected with; possessed of (comp.); possessed of superhuman powers; relating to

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55
दुःख duḥkha
noun
noun 27 0.26

Meanings: difficulty (personified as the son of Naraka and Vedanā); pain; sorrow; trouble; uneasiness

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56
कौन्तेय kaunteya
noun
noun 27 0.26

Meanings: Arjuna; Bhīmasena; metron. from Kuntī; name of Yudhiṣṭhira; the Pāṇḍavas; the tree Terminalia Arjuna

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57
श्रु śru
verb
verb 26 0.25

Meanings: to hear; to listen to; to study

58
या yā
verb
verb 25 0.24

Meanings: to flee; to go; to go to for any purpose (inf.); to move; to set out; to travel; to withdraw

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59
ततस् tatas
indeclinable
indeclinable 25 0.24

Meanings: after that; consequently; for that reason; from that; in consequence of that; then

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60
एवम् evam
indeclinable
indeclinable 25 0.24

Meanings: in such a manner; in this way; such; thus

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61
तमस् tamas
noun
noun 25 0.24

Meanings: darkness; error; gloom; hell or a particular division of hell; ignorance; illusion; mental darkness; name of a son (of Śravas); one of the 3 qualities or constituents of everything in creation; the darkness of hell; the obscuration of the sun or moon in eclipses

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

62
तपस् tapas
noun
noun 25 0.24

Meanings: name of a Kalpa period; name of a month intervening between winter and spring; the 9th lunar mansion (dharma); the hot season

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63
धर्म dharma
noun
noun 24 0.23

Meanings: a bow; a particular ceremony; a Soma-drinker; an Upanishad; associating with the virtuous; character; customary observance or prescribed conduct; devotion; duty; justice (often as a synonym of punishment); Law or Justice personified (as Indra); law; mark; morality; name of a king of Kaśmīra; name of a lexicographer; name of a son of Anu and father of Ghṛta; name of a son of Citraka; name of a son of Dīrghatapas; name of a son of Gāndhāra and father of Dhṛta; name of a son of Haihaya and father of Netra; name of a son of Pṛthuśravas and of Uśanas; name of a son of Suvrata; name of the 15th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī; nature; ordinance; peculiar condition or essential quality; peculiarity; practice; property; religion; religious abstraction; religious merit; right; sacrifice; statute; steadfast decree; that which is established or firm; the ethical precepts of Buddhism (or the principal dharma called sūsra); the law of Northern Buddhism (in 9 canonical scriptures); the law or doctrine of Buddhism; the ninth mansion; usage; virtue

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64
देव deva
noun
noun 24 0.23

Meanings: (rarely applied to) evil demons; a child; a deity; a fool; a husband's brother; a man following any particular line or business; a spearman; a sword; an organ of sense; cloud; dimin; dolt; emulation; god; lancer; name of a disciple of Nāgārjuna; name of Indra as the god of the sky and giver of rain; name of men; name of the number 33; play; sport; the gods as the heavenly or shining ones; wish to excel or overcome; [gramm.] the word 'deva'; mercury

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

65
भारत bhārata
adjective
adjective 24 0.23

Meanings: belonging or relating to the Bharatas; descended from Bharata or the Bharatas (applied to Agni either "sprung from the priests called Bharatas or "bearer of the oblation")

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66
हन् han
adjective
adjective 24 0.23

Meanings: killing

67
त्यज् tyaj
adjective
adjective 24 0.23

Meanings: abandoning; giving up; ifc. leaving; offering

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68
रजस् rajas
noun
noun 23 0.22

Meanings: (in phil.) the second of the three Guṇas or qualities; a kind of plant; a kind of weight; affection; air; any small particle of matter; arable land; atmosphere; autumn; clouds; cultivated or ploughed land (as "dusty" or "dirty"); darkness; dimness; dirt; dust; emotion; fields; firmament (in Veda one of the divisions of the world and distinguished from div or svar); gloom; impurity; mist; passion; region of clouds; safflower; sperm; the "darkening" quality; the dust or pollen of flowers; the menstrual discharge of a woman; the sphere of vapour or mist; tin; vapour; sindūra

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69
तस्मात् tasmāt
indeclinable
indeclinable 23 0.22

Meanings: therefore

70
सङ्ग saṅga
noun
noun 23 0.22

Meanings: addiction or devotion to; association or intercourse with; clinging to; contact with; cupidity; desire; name of a Sāman; propensity for; relation to; sticking; touch; wish; worldly or selfish attachment or affection

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71
अ a
indeclinable
indeclinable 23 0.22

Meanings: (ibc., negating particle); eh bien!; [gramm.] the root han; [gramm.] the sound a

72
त्व tva
noun
noun 22 0.21

Meanings: (Marker für abstrakte Nomina)

73
अव्यय avyaya
adjective
adjective 22 0.21

Meanings: imperishable; not liable to change; parsimonious; undecaying

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74
स्थ stha
adjective
adjective 21 0.20

Meanings: a place; abiding; being situated in; devoted to performing; engaged in; existing or being in or on or among; ground; occupied with; practising; standing; staying

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75
वा vā
indeclinable
indeclinable 21 0.20

Meanings: either - or; on the one side - on the other side; optionally

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76
रूप rūpa
noun
noun 21 0.20

Meanings: (in alg.) the arithmetical unit; (in gramm.) any form of a verb or noun; (in phil.) the quality of colour; a particular coin; a show; a single specimen; any outward appearance or phenomenon or colour (often pl.); beauty; circumstances; drama; feature; form; grace; handsome form; integer number; kind; known or absolute number; likeness; mark; mode; name of the number one; nature; phantom shapes; reflection; shape; sign; sort; symptom; way

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

77
प्रिय priya
adjective
adjective 21 0.20

Meanings: beloved; dear to; favourite; liked; own; wanted

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78
परम parama
noun
noun 21 0.20

Meanings: chief part or matter or object; extreme limit; highest point

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79
इह iha
indeclinable
indeclinable 20 0.19

Meanings: at this time; here; in this book or system; in this case; in this place; in this world; now; to this place

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80
यथा yathā
indeclinable
indeclinable 20 0.19

Meanings: according; as; like

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81
एक eka
pronoun
pronoun 20 0.19

Meanings: alone; excellent; happening only once; isolated; little; one; sincere; single of its kind

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82
पुरुष puruṣa
noun
noun 20 0.19

Meanings: a friend; a man; a member of a race or generation; a person; a servant; an officer; Clerodendrum Phlomoides; human being (people); male; name of various signs of the zodiac; Rottleria Tinctoria; the fragrant exhalation of plants; the height of a man; the primeval man; the pupil of the eye; the Supreme being; the soul

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

83
देह deha
noun
noun 19 0.18

Meanings: appearance; bulk (as of a cloud); form; individual; manifestation; mass; name of a country; person; shape; the body

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84
बाहु bāhu
noun
noun 19 0.18

Meanings: the arm; the arm as a measure of length (12 Aṅgulas); the arm between the elbow and the wrist (opp. to pra-gaṇḍa); the bar of a chariot-pole; the constellation Ārdrā; the fore-arm; the fore-foot of an animal (esp. its upper part); the limb of a bow; the post (of a door); the shadow of the gnomon on a sun-dial; the side of an angular figure (esp. the base of a right-angled triangle); the whole upper extremity of the body

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

85
प्रवच् pravac
verb
verb 19 0.18

Meanings: to announce; to commend; to explain; to impart; to mention; to praise; to proclaim; to teach

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86
एनद् enad
pronoun
pronoun 18 0.17

Meanings: this

87
गति gati
noun
noun 17 0.16

Meanings: "Motion" (personified as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Pulaha); (in gram.) a term for prepositions and some other adverbial prefixes (such as alam etc.) when immediately connected with the tenses of a verb or with verbal derivatives; a certain division of the moon's path and the position of the planet in it (the diurnal motion of a planet in its orbit?); a happy issue; a kind of rhetorical figure; a means of success; a particular high number; acting accordingly; arriving at; condition; condition of a person undergoing this migration; course; deportment; expedient; gait; going; going away; happiness; issue; manner; manner or power of going; march; means; metempsychosis; method of acting; mode of existence; motion in general; movement; moving; obeisance towards; obtaining; origin; passage; path; place of issue; possibility; procedure; procession; progress; proportion; reason; refuge; resource; running wound or sore; situation; state; stratagem; the being understood or meant; the course of the soul through numerous forms of life; the position (of a child at birth); way; way or art; volatility of mercury (?)

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88
काल kāla
noun
noun 17 0.16

Meanings: a black or dark-blue colour; a mystical name of the letter m; a red kind of Plumbago; Cassia Sophora; name of a brother of king Prasenajit; name of a future Buddha; name of a mountain; name of a Nāgarāja; name of a Rakṣas; name of a son of Hrada; name of an author of Mantras (Aśvaghosha); name of an enemy of Śiva; name of one of the nine treasures; name of one of Yama's attendants; name of Rudra; name of the prince Kālayavana; name of Śiva; the black part of the eye; the Indian cuckoo; the planet Saturn; the poisonous serpent Coluber Nāga; the resin of the plant Shorea robusta; kālalavaṇa

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

89
पुनर् punar
indeclinable
indeclinable 17 0.16

Meanings: again and again; back; besides; further; home; however; in an opposite direction; moreover; nevertheless; repeatedly; still

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90
प्राप् prāp
verb
verb 17 0.16

Meanings: (in gram.) to pass or be changed into (acc.); to arrive at; to attain to; to be in force; to be present or at hand; to extend; to find; to flee in all directions; to incur (a fine); to meet with; to obtain; to reach; to reach to; to receive; to stretch; to suffer (capital punishment)

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91
ज ja
adjective
adjective 17 0.16

Meanings: born or produced in or at or upon; growing in; ifc. born or descended from; living at; produced or caused by

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92
पाप pāpa
adjective
adjective 17 0.16

Meanings: bad; evil; inauspicious; low; vile; wicked

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93
दान dāna
noun
noun 17 0.16

Meanings: adding; addition; bribery; communicating; donation; gift; giving in marriage; giving up; imparting; liberality; oblation; paying back; restoring; teaching; the act of giving

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94
मोह moha
noun
noun 17 0.16

Meanings: (in phil.) darkness or delusion of mind (preventing the discernment of truth and leading men to believe in the reality of worldly objects); (with Buddhists) ignorance (one of the three roots of vice); a magical art employed to bewilder an enemy; a swoon; bewilderment; delusion; distraction; error; fainting; folly; Infatuation personified (as the offspring of Brahmā); infatuation; loss of consciousness; perplexity; stupefaction; wonder

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95 इष् iṣ verb verb 17 0.16
96
दिव्य divya
noun
noun 16 0.15

Meanings: a sort of sandal; an ordeal; heaven; name of a grammar; oath; solemn promise; the celestial regions; the divine world or anything divine; the sky; cloves

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97
नित्य nitya
adjective
adjective 16 0.15

Meanings: continual; devoted or used to; eternal; fixed; ifc. constantly dwelling or engaged in; innate; intent upon; invariable; native; necessary; obligatory (opp. to kāmya); one's own (opp. to araṇa); ordinary; perpetual; usual

Source: Monier-Williams (1988)

98
जन्मन् janman
noun
noun 16 0.15

Meanings: (in astrol.) name of the 1st lunar mansion; a creature; a progenitor; age (of life); being; birth; birthplace; custom; existence; father; gods and men; home; kind; life; manner; natal star; nativity; nature; origin; people; quality; race; re-birth; the people of a household; water

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99
इव iva
indeclinable
indeclinable 16 0.15

Meanings: a little; about; almost; as if; as it were; exactly; in a certain manner; in some measure; in the same manner as (in this sense yathā); indeed; just; just so; like; nearly; perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion); so; very (especially after words which involve some restriction)

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100
स्व sva
adjective
adjective 16 0.15

Meanings: akin; one's own; own; related

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