The corpus record — Sanskrit

cakṣuś

sehend

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Where it lives

Prasna Upanisad 9 · 13.78/10k
Aitareya Upanisad 5 · 10.32/10k
Katha Upanisad 2 · 9.28/10k
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 46 · 6.08/10k
Svetasvatara Upanisad 1 · 5.82/10k
Chandogya Upanisad 19 · 4.05/10k
Bhagavad Gita 1 · 1.16/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. cäksus-

cäksus- n. Auge, Sonnenauge, heller Blick (RV +; kein Adj. ‘sehend’, s. Old, Not 1222); caksusmant- mit Augen begabt {RV +), caksusya- lieblich für das Auge (Up +), caksusavon guter Sicht, dem Auge eigen (AV [16,7,7, WhiLanm 800), Käth +). - Mi., ni,, pa. u.a. cakkhu- n. ‘Auge’ (s. CAKS), vgl. Tu 4560, auch 4559 (2), 4733. - Ableitung von CAKS, daneben caks-as- n. ‘Auge, Blick’ (RV +; AiGr 11 2,229,489); vgl im … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. cäksus-, p. 579]

2. cakṣuś

cakṣuś in comp. for kṣus.

3. cakṣus

cakṣus mfn. seeing, RV. ii, 39, 5

4. cakṣus

x ; AV. v, 24, 9 ; x, 10, 15

In the wild

6 of 83 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. cäksus (vol. 1, scan p. 579; entry #6009). Root candidates: *caks-.

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.