100 names of an elephant

[Mārcis Gasūns]

Hariom,

Man, s. manuṣyaḥ, mānuṣaḥ, bhanujaḥ, naraḥ, nṛ m., 

mānavaḥ, pu(pū)ruṣaḥ, martyaḥ, puṁs m. 2 

(As opposed to child) mānuṣaḥ, prauḍha- 

-vayaskaḥ, tyaktaśaiśavaḥ, mānuṣyaprāptaḥ, prauḍhaḥ. 3 

(As opposed to woman) puruṣaḥ, 

pumān, naraḥ. 4 (M. -kind) bhanuṣyāḥ, mānavāḥ, 

manuṣyajāti f., martyāḥ, mānuṣyaṁ, mānuṣatā, 

anaḥ, lokaḥ, manuṣyajīva-lokaḥ. 5 (In 

chess) śā(sā)raḥ-riḥ; ‘an eminent 

m’ pukaṣasiṁhaḥ-vyāghnaḥ, naravaraḥ-śādūlaḥ- 

-pṛgavaḥ-ṛṣabhaḥ; See Excellent; ‘m. -eater’ 

puruṣādaḥ, nṛbhuk, narabhojin; ‘m. -hater’ 

mattuṣyaśatraḥ- drīhī, manuṣyadveṣī; ‘m. of 

war’ bṛhatī yuddhanauḥ; ‘m. -slaughter’ 

manuṣyavadhaḥ-dhātaḥ-hatyā, pramāthaḥ; ‘m. -steal- 

-ing’ manuṣpāpahāraḥ. -v. t. puruṣasanāthīkṛ 

8 U, mainyaṁ niviś c. -ful, -ly, a. pauruṣa (ṣī 

f.), pāruṣeya (yī f.); śūra-vīra-yogya, mahāvīrya, 

vikrāṁta, śūra, vīryavat; puruṣa-nara- in comp.; 

‘m. deed’ puruṣakāraḥ, pauruṣaṁ ‘m. office’ 

puruṣādhikāraḥ. -fully, adv. puruṣavat, 

savīryaṁ, savalaṁ, sapauruṣaṁ, savikramaṁ, śūra-vīra- 

vat, nirbhayaṁ. -fulness, -liness, s. pauruṣaṁ, 

vīryaṁ, puruṣakāraḥ, vi-parā-kramaḥ, śauryaṁ, sāhasaṁ. 

-hood, s. manuṣyatvaṁ, mānuṣatā, mānuṣyaṁ, 

puruṣadaśā-dharmaḥ-bhāvaḥ. 2 puṁstvaṁ, pauruṣaṁ, 

ojas-tejas- n., vīryaṁ, ūrjas n., yauvanaṁ, 

tāruṇyaṁ, yauvanāvasthā, tāruṇyadaśā, prauḍhatā, 

vyavahāradaśā; ‘having reached the 

stage of m.’ prāsayauvanaḥ, ārūḍhayauvanaḥ. 

4 vīryaṁ, vi-parā-kramaḥ, śauryaṁ, pauruṣaṁ.

Water, s. jalaṁ, aṁbu-aṁbhas -n., udakaṁ, vāri; 

payas n., toyaṁ, salilaṁ, nīraṁ pānīyaṁ, vār f., 

ap f. (pl.) pāthas n.; ‘land and w.’ 

sthalajaleḥ ’place where w. is distributed’ 

prapā, pānīyaśālikā; ‘by w.’ jalena, jala- 

-vartmanā; ‘of first w.’ anadhrya; ‘it can hold 

w.’ pramāṇakoṭiṁ pravaṣṭumarhati. 2 mūtraṁ, prasrāvaḥ; 

‘make w.’ mūtrotsargaṁ kṛ; ‘w.-carrier’ 

jalavāhaḥ, udavāhaḥ, dṛtihāraḥ; ‘w.-closet’ 

śaucakūpaḥ; ‘w.-course’ jalamārgaḥ, pari- 

(rī) vāhaḥ; :‘w.-fall’ jalaprapātaḥ, nirjharaḥ; 

‘w.-ing place’ prapā; ‘w.-man’ nāvikaḥ, 

udavāhaḥ; ‘w.-melon’ goḍuṁyaṁ, sedu n., taraṁ- 

-bujaṁ, kārligaṁ; ‘w.-mill’ jalacālyacakraṁ, 

jalayaṁtraṁ, ‘w.-pot’ ghaṭaḥ, kuṁbhaḥ, kalasaḥ-śaḥ; 

See Jar: ‘w.-proof’ jalābhedya; ‘w.. 

snake’ jalasarpaḥ; rājilaḥ; ‘w.-spout’ 

jalavajraḥ; ‘w.-wheel’ dhaṭīyaṁtraṁ, udaṁcana- 

-yaṁtraṁ. :-v. t. (jalena) sic 6 P, pla c., 

ukṣ 1 P. 2 jalaṁ pā c. or dā 3 U. -v. i. 

jalaṁ muc 6 P or snu c. or pat c.; ‘my 

eyes are w. ing’ jalalavasyaṁdinī netre. 2 

lālāyate (D.). -ed, a. jalabhūyiṣṭha, 

anūpa; jalasikta; ‘w. by rivers’ nadī- 

-mātaka; ‘w. by rain’ devamātaka. -y, a. 

jalamaya (yī f.), jalātmaka, jalarūpa; ‘w. 

shafts’ varṣaśarāḥ, dhārāśarasaṁpātāḥ. 2 

jalāḍhya, bahūdaka, jalabhūyiṣṭha, anūpa, jalaprāya.

 

Elephant, s. gajaḥ, hastin-karin m., mātaṁ- 

-gaḥ, mataṁgajaḥ, kuṁjaraḥ, nāgaḥ, vāraṇaḥ, ibhaḥ, 

dviradaḥ, dvi-aneka-paḥ, daṁtin m, daṁtāvalaḥ, 

staṁberamaḥ; ‘she-e.’ kariṇī, kareṇu f. -ṇukā, 

vaśā, dhenukā; ‘a young e.’ kalabhaḥ, kari- 

-śāvakaḥ; ‘e. driver’ hastipaḥ-pakaḥ, ādho- 

-raṇaḥ, mahāmātraḥ, niṣādin m.; ‘wild c.’ 

vanagajaḥ, vanyaḥ karī; ‘furious or rutting 

(e.)’ madotkaṭaḥ, madakalaḥ. prabhisraḥ, garjitaḥ, 

mattaḥ; ‘e. out of rut’ uddhāṁtaḥ; nirmadaḥ; 

‘head of a herd of e. s’ yūthanāthaḥ, yūthapaḥ; 

‘herd of e. s’ hāstikaṁ, gajatā, gajayūthaṁ; ‘war 

e. -s’ gajaghaṭā; ‘e. s of the quarters’ 

diggajāḥ; ‘frontal globe of an e.’ 

kuṁbhaḥ; ‘e.’ s fore-head’ lalāṭaṁ, ava- 

-grahaḥ; ‘his eyeball’ i(ri)ṣi(ṣī)- 

-kā, akṣikūṭakaṁ ‘corner of his eye’ ni- 

-ryāṇaṁ; ‘root of his ear’ cūlikā; ‘his 

withers’ āsanaṁ, skaṁdhadeśaḥ; ‘his side’ 

pārśvabhāgaḥ, pakṣabhāgaḥ; ‘the temple-juice’ 

madaḥ, dānaṁ; ‘water emitted from the 

trunk’ vamathuḥ, karaśīkaraḥ; ‘his roaring’ 

bṛṁhitaṁ, garjitaṁ; ‘the whip to strike him’ 

totraṁ, veṇukaṁ; ‘binding-post’ ālānaṁ; 

‘binding chains’ śṛṁkhalaṁ, aṁdukaḥ, nigaḍaḥ; 

‘caparisoning of an e.’ kalpanā, sajjanā; 

‘coloured housings’ praveṇī, āstaraṇaṁ, 

varṇaḥ, pariṣṭo(sto) maḥ, kuthaḥ. 

From the dictionary entries above one can see they can be huge, but only the first part of it has value for us (we do not need to know a word for ‘corner of his eye’ or ‘water emitted from the trunk’). There are "only" 20 names of elephant. I sometimes hear that Sanskrit has 30-50-100 names for the same item. But where can I find such lists? What word or words has most synonyms in Sanskrit?

http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/AEScan/2014/web/webtc/indexcaller.php Apte Student's English-Sanskrit Dictionary did not help me to locate them.

http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/MWEScan/2013/web/webtc/indexcaller.php Monier-Williams English-Sanskrit Dictionary give a few more and gives an important clue:

"The sun has innumerable names in Sanskrit, many of which are more properly epithets than names." I'm ready to accept epithets, but where are they listwise ordered? I know there are 80 names of a camel in Arabic, but what are the most popular words in Sanskrit?

[Sri Raghava Kiran Mukku]

Dear Vidvan Marcis,

Kindly consult a kosa like Amara, Medini or Halayudha for the listing you are looking for.

Dhanyo'smi

Raghava

[Mārcis Gasūns]

Dear Raghava,

Those koshas I'm aware of. Authors of the English-Sanskrit dictionaries were aware of them as well.

[krishnaprasad g]

Try kalpadru koash.
Agni has highest synonyms in Sanskrit. Of cousre Vishnu Shiva etc has sahasranamas as well

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[Mārcis Gasūns]

On Tuesday, 27 September 2016 10:39:37 UTC+3, krishnaprasadah wrote:

Try kalpadru koash.
Agni has highest synonyms in Sanskrit. Of cousre Vishnu Shiva etc has sahasranamas as well

Oh, fire is a good idea, thanks. What else? Water, earth? Which have most epithets?