गोष्ठ r. 1st cl. (
गोष्ठते) To assemble, to collect, to heap together.
गोष्ठ mn. (
-ष्ठः-ष्ठं)
1. A cowpen, a fold for cattle, any place where animals are kept.
2. A station of cow-herds.
f. (
-ष्ठी)
1. An assembly, a meet- ing.
2. Conversation, discourse, dialogue, dispute.
3. Family con- nexions, but especially the dependent or junior branches.
4. A dramatic composition in one act.
E. गो a cow, and
ष्ठ from
स्था to stay,
with
क affix; here meaning the place of abiding, or
गोष्ठ to assemble, affix
अच्.