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kānīyasā

kaṇīyas mfn. very small, young, younger, L.

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Where it lives

  • Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 2 · 0.26/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. kaṇīyas

kaṇīyas mfn. very small, young, younger, L.

2. kanīyas

kanīyas mfn. younger, a younger brother or sister, younger son or daughter (opposed to jyāyas), RV. iv, 33, 5 ; AitBr. ; MBh. &c.

3. kanīyas

smaller, less, inferior, very small or insignificant (opposed to bhūyas and uttama), RV. ; AV. iii, 15, 5 ; xii, 4, 6 ; TS. ; ŚBr. &c.

4. kanīyasa

kanīyasa mfn. younger, MBh. ; Hariv. &c.

5. kanīyasa

smaller, less, MBh. xiii, 2560

6. kānīyasa

kānīyasa ās, mfn. pl. ( fr. kanīyas), less in number, ŚBr. xiv, 4, 1, 1.

In the wild

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.