amṛta (n)
Meanings
- a particular poison
- a pear
- a ray of light
- a sweetmeat
- ambrosia (or the voice compared to it)
- antidote against poison
- anything sweet
- boiled rice
- clarified butter
- collective body of immortals
- eternity
- final emancipation
- food
- gold
- heaven
- immortality
- milk
- name of a medicament
- name of a sacred place (in the north; supposed to confer long life)
- nectar-like food
- poison
- property
- quicksilver
- the nectar (conferring immortality)
- the number four
- the residue of a sacrifice
- unsolicited alms
- world of immortality
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