kóśa m. (n., [L.]; in class. literature , or koṣa; fr. √ kuś or kuṣ?, related to kukṣí and koṣṭha?), a cask, vessel for holding liquids, (metaphorically) cloud, [RV.]; [AV.]; [Suśr.]
a pail, bucket, [RV.]
a drinking-vessel, cup, [L.]
a box, cupboard, drawer, trunk, [RV. vi, 47, 23]; [AV. xix, 72, 1]; [ŚBr.]
the interior or inner part of a carriage, [RV.]
(ifc.), [MBh. viii, 1733]
a sheath, scabbard, &c., [MBh.]; [R.]; [VarBṛS.]
a case, covering, cover, [AV.]; [ChUp.]; [MuṇḍUp.]; [TUp.]; [PārGṛ.]; [BhP.]
store-room, store, provisions, [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
a treasury, apartment where money or plate is kept, treasure, accumulated wealth (gold or silver, wrought or unwrought, as plate, jewellery, &c.), [ib.]
(in surg.) a kind of bandage, [Suśr.]
a dictionary, lexicon or vocabulary
a poetical collection, collection of sentences &c., [Kāvyād. i, 13]; [Sāh.]
a bud, flower-cup, seed-vessel (cf. bīja-), [R.]; [Ragh.]; [BhP.]; [Dhūrtas.]
the sheath or integument of a plant, pod, nut-shell, [MārkP.]
a nutmeg, [L.]
the inner part of the fruit of Artocarpus integrifolia and of similar fruits, [L.]
the cocoon of a silk-worm, [Yājñ. iii, 147]; [Vedāntas.]
the membrane covering an egg (in the womb), [Suśr.]; [VarBṛ.]; [MārkP.]
the vulva, [L.]
a testicle or the scrotum, [Suśr.]; [VarBṛS.]
the penis, [W.]
an egg, [L.]
(in Vedānta phil.) a term for the three sheaths or succession of cases which make up the various frames of the body enveloping the soul (these are, 1. the ānanda-maya k° or ‘sheath of pleasure’, forming the kāraṇa-śarīra or ‘causal frame’; 2. the vijñāna-maya or buddhi-m° or mano-m° or prāṇa-m° k°, ‘the sheath of intellect or will or life’, forming the sūkṣma-śarīra or ‘subtile frame’; 3. the anna-m° k°, ‘the sheath of nourishment’, forming the sthūla-śarīra or ‘gross frame’), [Vedāntas.]
(ifc.) a ball or globe (e.g. sūtra-, a ball of thread, [L.]; netra-, the eye-ball, [R. iii, 79, 28])
the water used at an ordeal or judicial trial (the defendant drinks thrice of it after some idol has been washed in it), [Yājñ. ii, 95]
an oath, [Rājat. v, 325]
a cup used in the ratification of a treaty of peace (°śaṃ-√ pā, to drink from that cup), [Rājat. vii, 8]; [75]; [460] and [493]; [viii, 283]
N. of a conjunction of planets, [VarBṛS.]
of the 2nd astrological mansion, [VarYogay.]
(with Buddhists) of a collection of Gāthā verses, [Kāraṇḍ.]; [Hcar.]