sparśa (m)
Meanings
- (in gram.) collective name of the twenty-five consonants constituting the five classes from k to m (so-called because formed by complete contact of the organs of utterance
- (in phil.) the quality of tangibility (which constitutes the skin's viṣaya)
- a gift
- a kind of sexual union
- a spy
- air
- any quality which is perceptible by touching any object (e.g. heat)
- contact (fig. applied to the beginning of an eclipse or to any astron. contact)
- feeling
- illness
- offering
- pleasant feeling
- sensation
- temperature
- touch
- unpleasant or morbid sensation
- wind
Sememes
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