गोमुख n. (
-खं)
1. A house build unevenly or crookedly, viz. with angles, projections, &c.
2. A kind of musical instrument, (a sort of horn or trumpet)
3. Spreading unguents, plastering, smear- ing.
4. A hole in a wall made by thieves, &c. a breach.
m. (
-खः) 1. A shark.
2. A kind of Yaksha; according to the Jainas, a demigod subservient to their deified saints.
nf. (
-खं-खी) A cloth- bag, containing a rosary into which the hand is thrust to count the beads.
f. (
-खी) The chasm in the Himalaya mountains through which the Ganges flows, erroneously conceived by the Hindus to be of the shape of a cow's mouth.
2. A river in Bengal.
E. गो a cow, and
मुख face, having the face of a cow, &c.
गोमुखमिव मुखमस्य . ROOTS:
गो मुख गोमुखमिव मुखमस्य .