The corpus record — Sanskrit

kāmān

-wünschend, -begehrend

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Where it lives

Katha Upanisad 3 · 13.91/10k
Svetasvatara Upanisad 1 · 5.82/10k
Mandukya Upanisad 1 · 5.13/10k
Aitareya Upanisad 2 · 4.13/10k
Bhagavad Gita 3 · 3.49/10k
Taittiriya Upanisad 1 · 1.89/10k
Chandogya Upanisad 6 · 1.28/10k
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 3 · 0.4/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. käma-

käma- m. Wunsch, Begehren, Verlangen (RV +); ’käma- ‘-wünschend, -begehrend’ (z.B. RV + gö-käma- Rinder begehrend, AV + paäti-käma- einen Gatten wünschend, RV räyas-kämanach Reichtum verlangend [Gensg °as-, s. AiGr I 1,277], K drastu-käma- etwas zu sehen wünschend [AiGr II 2,652]), AV 12,2,51 dhana-kämyä mit dem Wunsch nach Habe (ua, s. AiGr Il 2,244, II 595); kamin- Lust habend, verlangend (RV +), kamuka- … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. käma-, p. 393]

2. kāma

kāma m. ( fr. √ 2. kam; once kāma, VS. xx, 60 ), wish, desire, longing (kāmomebhuñjītabhavān, my wish is that you should eat, Pāṇ. iii, 3, 153 ), desire for, longing after ( gen. dat. , or loc. ), love, affection, object of desire or of love or of pleasure, RV. ; VS. ; TS. ; AV. ; ŚBr. ; MBh. ; R. &c.

3. kāma

Love or Desire personified, AV. ix , xii , xix ( cf. RV. x, 129, 4 ), VS. ; PārGṛ.

4. kāma

(represented as son of Dharma and husband of Rati [ MBh. i, 2596 ff. ; Hariv. ; VP. ]; or as a son of Brahmā , VP. ; or sometimes of Saṃkalpa , BhP. vi, 6, 10 ; cf. kāmadeva)

In the wild

kāmān Aitareya Upanisad aitup_2.6
kāmān Aitareya Upanisad aitup_3.4
kāmān Bhagavad Gita 2.55
kāmān Bhagavad Gita 2.71
kāmān Bhagavad Gita 7.22
kāmān Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_3,2.7

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. kama (vol. 3, scan p. 767; entry #12632).

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