The corpus record — Sanskrit

ṛco

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Where it lives

Svetasvatara Upanisad 2 · 11.64/10k
Chandogya Upanisad 24 · 5.12/10k
Prasna Upanisad 3 · 4.59/10k
Taittiriya Upanisad 1 · 1.89/10k
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 12 · 1.59/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. رc-

rc- f. Preislied, Gedicht, Strophe, Vers (RV [rc-am, rc-a, rg-bhis u.a.) +); rema- “fc-artig’ (AitB, s. AiGr II 2,360,752), rgm(Üya- “aus /c-Versen bestehend’ (Käth +), rkmya- dss. (JB; Hoffm, 115 4 1960) 13f. = HoffmA 89f.), s. noch rgmin- ‘preisend, singend’, rgmiya-, remiyd- ‘preiswürdig’ (RV; s. Hoffm, a.2.0.); auf fc- zu beziehen /kvan- u.a., s.o. 1247? - Iir.? Vielleicht 250 reisama- - Hipyd- *rk° in iran. … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. rc-, p. 304]

2. ṛc

1. ṛc cl. 6. P. ṛcati, ānarca, arcitā, &c., = 1. arc, p. 89, col. 3 ; to praise, Dhātup. xxviii, 19 ( cf. arka.)

3. ṛc

2. ṛc f. praise, verse, esp. a sacred verse recited in praise of a deity (in contradistinction to the Sāman [ pl. Sāmāni ] or verses which were sung and to the Yajus [ pl. Yajūṃṣi ] or sacrificial words, formularies, and verses which were muttered)

4. ṛc

the collection of the Ṛc verses ( sg. , but usually pl. ṛcas), the Ṛg - veda , AitBr. ; ĀśvŚr. & ĀśvGṛ. ; Mn. i, 23 , &c. ( cf. ṛgveda above)

In the wild

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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.