1. كeنَ
kena instr. ind. ( fr. 2. ka), by what? ŚBr. iv ; MBh. i, ch. 3
The corpus record — Sanskrit
kena
kena instr. ind. ( fr. 2. ka), by what? ŚBr. iv ; MBh. i, ch. 3
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Where it lives
- Mandukya Upanisad 4 · 20.51/10k
- Isa Upanisad 1 · 10.48/10k
- Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 60 · 7.94/10k
- Aitareya Upanisad 3 · 6.19/10k
- Prasna Upanisad 4 · 6.13/10k
- Taittiriya Upanisad 2 · 3.77/10k
- Bhagavad Gita 2 · 2.33/10k
- Chandogya Upanisad 9 · 1.92/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
2. كeنَ
whence? MBh. xiii, 2167 ; R. vi, 12, 4
3. كeنَ
how? why? Pañcat. ; Bhartṛ.
In the wild
- kena Aitareya Upanisad aitup_1,3.12
- kena Aitareya Upanisad aitup_2.1
- kena Aitareya Upanisad aitup_3.2
- kena Bhagavad Gita 12.19
- kena Bhagavad Gita 3.36
- kena Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_1,3.1
6 of 85 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. ken (vol. 3, scan p. 850; entry #15131). Root candidates: *ken-.
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