The corpus record — Sanskrit

bai

1. ba the third letter of the labial class (often confounded with va).

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Where it lives

Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 2 · 0.26/10k
Chandogya Upanisad 1 · 0.21/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. بَ

1. ba the third letter of the labial class (often confounded with va).

2. بَ

2. ba m. = varuna

3. بَ

vapana &c., L.

In the wild

bai Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_3,2.13
ba Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_4,1.4
ba Chandogya Upanisad chup_8,3.2

Where it came from

Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. bai (vol. 3, scan p. 941; entry #18799).

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.