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daṃśदंश्or daṃs cl. 1. 10. P. °śati, °śayati or °s°, ‘to speak’ or ‘to shine’, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 91]; cl. 1. P. and cl. 10. Ā. (fr. Prākṛt daṃse) to show, 2 f.
cl. 1. (originally cl. 6.) dáśati ([Pāṇ. vi, 4, 25]; Ā. [MBh. i, 1798] & [Hariv. 4302]; p. dáśat, [RV.] &c.; pf. dadaṃśa; pl. °śur, [R. i, 45, 20]; p. dadaśvás, [RV. iv, 38, 6]; fut. daṅkṣyati, [Bhaṭṭ.]; daṃṣṭā, [Pāṇ. vii, 2, 10]; [Kār.]; 1. pl. daśiṣyāmas, [MBh. i, 1605]; aor. adāṅkṣīt, [Vop.]; pl. °ṣur, [Bhaṭṭ.]; ind.p. daṃṣṭvā, [TāṇḍyaBr.]; cl. 1. daṃśati, [Cāṇ.]) to bite, [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr.] &c.: Caus. to cause to bite, [Kauś.]; to cause to be bitten by (instr.), [MBh. i, 2243]; [iii, 544]; [Suśr. iv, 14, 6] and [12] : Intens. dandaśyate, °śīti, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 24]; [vii, 4, 86]; dandaṣṭi, °daṃṣṭi, [Vop. xx, 19]; p. dándaśāna (cf. °śū́ka) repeatedly biting, [RV. x, 95, 9]: Caus. of Intens. (ind.p. dandaśayitvā) causing to be bitten by (instr.), [Daś. i, 142];
[cf. δάκνω; Goth. tahyan.]
daṃśīदंशीf. a small gad-fly, [L.]
daṃśaदंशmfn. ‘biting’, see mṛga-
m. a bite, sting, the spot bitten (by a snake &c.), [Suśr.]; [Mālav. iv, 4] & [4/5], [3]; [Gīt. x, 11]; [Kathās. lx, 131]
snake-bite, [W.]
pungency, [W.]
a flaw (in a jewel), [L.]
a tooth, [L.]
a stinging insect, gnat, gad-fly, [ChUp.]; [Mn. xii, 62]; [Yājñ. iii, 215]; [MBh.] &c.
N. of an Asura, [xii, 93]
armour, mail, [BhP. i], [iii]
a joint of the body, [L.]
cf. kṣamā-, vṛṣa-.
daṃśinदंशिन्daṃ°śin mfn. ‘biting’, see tṛpra-daṃśín
daṃ°śin m. a dog, [Npr.]
a wasp, [ib.]
daṃśakaदंशकmfn. ‘biting’, see dṛḍha-, mṛga-
m. ‘a tooth’, see puru-
a gad-fly, [L.]
a common fly, [Npr.]
N. of a prince of Kampana, [Rājat. viii, 178]
daṃśanaदंशनdaṃ°śana n. the act of biting, bite, [MBh. xiv, 754]; [Sāh.]
the being bitten by (instr.), [MBh. viii, 4252]
armour, mail, [i], [iii], [viii]; [Devīm. ii, 27.]
daṃśeraदंशेरfor daś°, [Uṇ. i, 58.]
daṃśikāदंशिकाf. a kind of stinging fly, [Npr.]
daṃśitaदंशितdaṃ°śita mfn. bitten, [Vet. ii, 0/1]
armed, mailed, [MBh.]; [R. iii]; [BhP. vi]
protected, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]
adorned, 5432
ready for (loc.), [MBh. xii, 644]
fitting closely (like armour), standing closely together, crowded, [iv]; [v, 7184] (saṃś° B), [Hariv.]
daṃ°śita n. a bite, [L.]
daṃśmanदंश्मन्daṃ°śman n. a bite or the spot bitten, [Kauś. 29] and [32]
cf. tṛṣṭá-.
daṃśukaदंशुकdáṃśuka mfn. biting (with acc.), [Kāṭh.]; [TS.]; [TBr.]
daṃśabhīruदंशभीरुdaṃśa—bhīru m. ‘afraid of gad-flies’, a buffalo, [L.]
daṃśamūlaदंशमूलdaṃśa—mūla m. ‘pungent-root’, Hyperanthera Moringa, [L.]
daṃśabhīrukaदंशभीरुकdaṃśa—bhī°ruka m. ‘afraid of gad-flies’, a buffalo, [L.]
daṃśamaśakaदंशमशकdaṃśa—maśaka n. sg. gad-flies and gnats, [Mn. i, 40] and [45]
(in comp.), [Jain.] & [Pañcat. iii, 2, 9.]
daṃśanāśinīदंशनाशिनीdaṃśa—nāśinī f. ‘sting-curing’, a kind of insect, [L.]
daṃśavadanaदंशवदनdaṃśa—vadana m. ‘sharp-beaked’, a heron, [L.]