The corpus record — Sanskrit

Kāṇva

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Where it lives

Isa Upanisad 4 · 41.93/10k
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 4 · 0.53/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. känva-

känva- m. Name einer mythischen Gestalt, desStammvaters der Kanvas; im Plur.: das Kanva-Geschlecht (RV +), känva- von k° abstammend (RV +); dazu präskanva- m. Name eines Rsi mit dem Patronymikon kanva- (RV +; davon SrSü präskanva-). - Mit volkssprachlicher Lautung aus *(s)krnva- ‘tuend, (magisch) wirkend, antuend’ (- KAR [: skar, vgl. pra-s-k”), Präsens Kr-no-, kr-nv-a-), aus *krnva- ‘wirkend’ stammt andererseits Sü … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. känva-, p. 348]

2. kaṇva

kaṇva m. (√ kaṇ, Uṇ. i, 151 ), N. of a renowned Ṛṣi (author of several hymns of the Ṛg - veda ; he is called a son of Ghora and is said to belong to the family of Aṅgiras ), RV. ; AV. ; VS. ; KātyŚr. &c.

3. kāṇva

kāṇva mfn. relating to or worshipping Kaṇva , Pāṇ. iv, 2, 111

In the wild

Kāṇva Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,1.1
Kāṇva Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,1.1
Kanva Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,1.1
kāṇvānāṃ Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_3,1.6
Kāṇva Isa Upanisad isup_1
Kanva Isa Upanisad isup_1

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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.