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कोष mn. (-षः-षं) 1. A bud 2. A sheathe, a scabbard, &c. 3. A coat, a surrounding cover, any investing sheathe. 4. Judicial trial by oath or ordeal, or by fire, water, poison, the balance, heated balls of iron, boiling oil, &c. attesting a deity, and touching or drinking water three times in which some idol has been washed. 5. Gold or silver, wrought or unwrought as plate, jewellery, &c. 6. Wealth. 7. Accumulated wealth, treasure. 8. A treasury, the apartment where money or plate is kept. 9. A sacrificial vessel or any drink- ing vessel. 10 The vulva, the womb. 11. The penis. 12. A test- icle or the scrotum. 13. An egg. 14. (In composition) A ball or globe, as सूत्रकोष a ball of thread, नेत्रकोष the eyeball, &c. 15. The inner part of the Jack-fruit or its like. 16. A nutmeg. 17. A dic- tionary or vocabulary. 18. A term for the five sheathes or cases which successively make up the body enveloping the sovel. (In Vedanta Philosophy.) f. (-षी) 1. A shoe, a sandal. 2. The beard of corn: see कोश E. कुष् or कोश् to issue, affix घञ् hence the word is optionally कोष or कोश; the meanings may be mostly resolved into that, from which something issues or evolves.
ROOTS: कुष् कोश् घञ् कोष कोश;
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