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māṣa

mā́ṣa m. (n. g. ardharcādi) a bean, [RV.] &c. &c. (sg. the plant; pl. the fruit; in later times = Phaseolus Radiatus, a valued kind of pulse having seeds marked with black and grey spots)

a partic. weight of gold (= 5 Kṛṣṇalas = 1/10 Suvarṇa; the weight in common use is said to be about 17 grains troy), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]

a cutaneous eruption resembling beans, [L.]

a fool, blockhead, [L.]

N. of a man g. bāhv-ādi

pl. (with or scil. akṛṣṭāḥ) ‘wild beans’, N. of a Ṛṣi-gaṇa (the children of Su-rabhi, to whom, [RV. ix, 86, 1]-[10] is ascribed), [RAnukr.]; [R.]; [Hariv.]