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ख 1. the second consonant of the alphabet (being the aspirate of the preceding consonant; often in MSS. and, [Inscr.] confounded with ष). ख m. 2.m. the sun, [L.] ख n. 3.n. (√ खन्) a cavity, hollow, cave, cavern, aperture, [RV.] an aperture of the human body (of which there are nine, viz. the mouth, the two ears, the two eyes, the two nostrils, and the organs of excretion and generation), [AV. xiv, 2, 1 and 6] ; [Prāt.] ; [KaṭhUp.] ; [Gaut.] ; [Mn.] &c. (hence) an organ of sense, [BhP. viii, 3, 23] (in anat. ) the glottis, [W.] ‘the hole made by an arrow’, wound, [Mn. ix, 43] the hole in the nave of a wheel through which the axis runs, [RV.] ; [ŚBr. xiv] vacuity, empty space, air, ether, sky, [ŚBr. xiv] ; [PraśnUp.] ; [Mn. xii, 120 &c.] heaven, [L.] ब्रह्म (the Supreme Spirit), [W.] (in arithm. ) a cypher, [Sūryas.] ; [Sāh.] बिन्दु the अनुस्वार represented by a circle (), [L.] N. of the tenth astrological mansion, [VarBṛ.] talc, [L.] a city, [L.] a field, [L.] सु-ख happiness (a meaning derived fr. , दुः-ख), [L.] action, [L.] understanding, [L.] ख [cf. Gk. χάος; Lat. halo.]
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