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ṣaṣ

ṣáṣ mfn. pl. (prob. for orig. ṣakṣ; nom. acc. ṣáṭ instr. ṣaḍbhís dat. abl. ṣaḍbhyás, gen. ṣaṇṇā́m loc. ṣaṭsú; in comp. becomes ṣaṭ before hard letters, ṣaḍ before soft, ṣo before d, which is changed into ḍ, and ṇ before nasals) six (with the counted object in apposition or exceptionally in gen. or ifc., e.g. ṣaḍ ṛtavah, or ṣaḍ ṛtunām, ‘the six seasons’, ṣaṭsu ṣatsu māseṣu, ‘at periods of six months’, [Mn. viii, 403] at the end of a Bahuvrīhi compound it is declined like other words ending in ṣ, e. g. priya-ṣaṣas nom. pl. [Pāṇ. vii, 1, 22] Schol.; among the words used as expressions for the number six (esp. in giving dates) are aṅga, darśana, tarka, rasa, ṛtu, vajrakoṇa, kārttikeya-mukha), [RV.] &c. &c.

(in gram.) a technical N. for numerals ending in ṣ and n and words like kati, [Pāṇ. i, 1, 24], [25]

[cf. Gk. ἕξ; Lat. sex; Goth. saíhs; Germ. sëhs, sechs; Eng. six.]