Sanskrit-Lexikon

kumbha (m)

(archit.) the bell capital
a jar
a measure of grain (equal to twenty Droṇas)
a particular part of a bed
a religious exercise
an urn in which the bones of a dead person are collected
bully
closing the nostrils and mouth so as to suspend breathing
ewer
flash or fancy man
name of a Dānava (a son of Prahlāda and brother of Nikumbha)
name of a Mantra (pronounced over a weapon)
name of a monkey
name of a plant (and also of its fruit)
name of a Rākṣasa
name of a work
name of the father of the nineteenth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī
one of the thirty-four Jātakas or former births of Śākyamuni
pitcher
small water-jar
the frontal globe or prominence on the upper part of the forehead of an elephant (there are two of these prominences which swell in the rutting season)
the paramour of a harlot
the root of a plant used in medicine
the sign of the zodiac Aquarius
waterpot
[medic.] a kind of pāṇḍuroga