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
कोशE. 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;