kumbha (m)
Meanings
- (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
Sememes
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