Look up a Sanskrit word
lookup_sanskrit_termRead-only
Look up a Sanskrit word: its spellings across scripts, the meanings it carries in this corpus, how many verses gloss it, and examples of where it occurs.
Built from the word-by-word breakdowns of some 30 000 verses, so these are the meanings translators actually assigned to the word in these texts — not a lexicon's list of everything it could mean. Use it before translating a term yourself, and whenever the user asks what a word means.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| term | Yes | In IAST (śeṣa, diacritics optional) or Devanāgarī (शेष). A word written in another script is not in this dictionary — the headwords are Sanskrit — but search_texts will still find it in the prose. | |
| examples | No | Verses to cite as examples. Default 5. | |
| language | No | Preferred language of the translations returned. Not a filter: works that exist only in Russian are returned in Russian, and each result says which language it is actually in. Default: en. |