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The corpus record — Sanskrit

mahīyān

mahīya Nom. Ā. yate, to be joyous or happy, RV. &c. &c.; to prosper, TUp. ; to be exalted, rise high, R. ; to be highly esteemed or honoured, Kāv. (also pr. p. Pass. mahīyyamāna, Bhaṭṭ. )

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Where it lives

  • Svetasvatara Upanisad 1 · 5.82/10k
  • Katha Upanisad 1 · 4.64/10k
  • Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. mahīya

mahīya Nom. Ā. yate, to be joyous or happy, RV. &c. &c.; to prosper, TUp. ; to be exalted, rise high, R. ; to be highly esteemed or honoured, Kāv. (also pr. p. Pass. mahīyyamāna, Bhaṭṭ. )

2. mahīyā

mahīyā f. joyousness, happiness, exultation ( dat. yai), RV. ; TS.

3. mahīyā

N. of a partic. verse, ĀpŚr. , Sch.

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.