kumbhá as, m. a jar, pitcher, water-pot, ewer, small water-jar [often ifc. (f(A). ) e.g. chidra-k°, a perforated pitcher, [R.]; āma-k°, a jar of unbaked clay, [Pañcat.]; hema-k°, a golden ewer, [Ragh. ii, 36]; [Amar.]; jala-k°, a water-pot, [Pañcat.]] [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
an urn in which the bones of a dead person are collected, [ĀśvGṛ.]; [KātyŚr.]; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]
the sign of the zodiac Aquarius, [Jyot.]; [VarBṛS.] &c.
a measure of grain (equal to twenty Droṇas, a little more than three bushels and three gallons; commonly called a comb; some make it two Droṇas or sixty-four Seers), [Mn. viii, 320]; [Hcat.]
the frontal globe or prominence on the upper part of the forehead of an elephant (there are two of these prominences which swell in the rutting season), [MBh.]; [Bhartṛ.] &c.
a particular part of a bed, [VarBṛS.]
N. of a plant (and also of its fruit), [BhP. x, 18, 14]
the root of a plant used in medicine
a religious exercise, viz. closing the nostrils and mouth so as to suspend breathing, [L.]
the paramour of a harlot, bully, flash or fancy man, [L.]
N. of a Mantra (pronounced over a weapon), [R. i]
N. of a Dānava (a son of Prahlāda and brother of Nikumbha), [MBh. i, 2527]; [Hariv.]
of a Rākṣasa (son of Kumbhakarṇa), [R.]; [BhP.]
of the father of the nineteenth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī, [Jain.]
of a monkey, [R. iv, 33, 14]
one of the thirty-four Jātakas or former births of Śākya-muni, [L.]
N. of wk. [Sāh.]
kumbhá (am), n. the plant Ipomoea Turpethum, [L.]
a fragrant resin (gúggulu), or the plant which bears it, [L.]
the prominence on the upper part of an elephant's forehead, [MBh. xii, 4280]
m. n. stopping the breath by shutting the mouth and closing the nostrils with the fingers of the right hand (a religious exercise), [BhP.]; [Vedāntas.]; [Sarvad.] &c.
kumbha—karṇa m. ‘pot-eared’, N. of a Rākṣasa (the brother of Rāvaṇa, described in [R. vi] as sleeping for six months at a time and then waking to gorge himself), [MBh. iii]; [R.]; [Ragh. xii, 80]; [BhP.]