دش

दश daśa, vulg. daś, adj. Ten:—daśārh (˚śa+ar˚), s.m. Name of a warrior tribe descended from Daśārha of the family of Yadu;—the country inhabited by this tribe (in the south of India):—daśāṅś(˚śa+an˚), s.m. A tenth part, tithe:—daśāngul (˚śa+an˚), adj. Ten fingers long;—s.m. A water-melon, a melon:—daśānan (˚śa+ān˚), s.m. 'Ten-faced,' an epithet of Rāvan:—daśāvatār (˚śa+av˚), s.m. 'He of the ten incarnations,' an epithet of Vishnu (of whom the Hindūs believe there were ten descents from heaven for the protection or the punishment of mankind):—daśa-pur, daś-pur, s.m. Name of a district or part of Mālwa in Bundelkhand;—a species of Cyperus rotundus:—daśa-rath, s.m. 'Having ten chariots'; name of an ancient sovereign of Ayodhyā(the modern Oude), and father of Rāma:—daśa-sat, daś-sat, adj. & s.m. Ten hundred;—a thousand:—daś-sahasra, adj. & s.m. Ten thousand;—a myriad:—daśa-śīrsha, vulg. daś-śīs, s.m. 'Ten-headed'; an epithet of Rāvan:—daś-kāma-ja-vyasan, s.m. Ten vices arising from kāma or love of pleasure, viz., hunting, gambling, sleeping by day, fault-finding (or abusiveness), lust, drunkenness, dancing, singing, playing, and useless travel (or, acc. to some, hypocrisy):—daś-kanṭha, s.m. 'Tennecked'; an epithet of Rāvan:—daś-kanṭhāri (˚tha+ari), or daś-kanṭha-jit, s.m. 'The enemy, or the conqueror, of Daśkanṭh,' an epithet of Rāma:—daś-kandh, or daś-kandhar, s.m.=daś-kanṭha, q.v.:—daś-grām, s.m. A district, or a collection, of ten villages:—daś-guṇ(f. -ā), or daś-guṇā(f. -ī), adj. & adv. Ten-fold, ten times; ten times as large; ten times over:—daś-lakshaṇ, s.m. Ten marks or attributes:—daś-māl, s.m. A collection of ten garlands:—daś-muṛ, daś-mukh, daś-munḍā, s.m. 'Ten-faced'; an epithet of Rāvan:—daś-mūl, s.m. Name of a tonic medicine prepared from the roots of ten plants:—daśoṅ, vulg. dasoṅ, adj. The ten of them, all ten, the whole ten:—daśoṅ-indrī= daśendriyā, q.v. below:—daśoṅ-diśā, daśoṅ-dig, s.f. The ten regions or quarters of the world:—daśoṅ-dwār, s.m. The ten gates or passages for the action of the faculties, viz. the eyes, the ears, the nostrils, the mouth, the crown of the head, the anus, and the penis:—daśeś(˚śa+īśa), s.m. Lord of ten towns, superintendent of ten villages:—daśendriya, or daśendriyā, s.m. pl. The ten organs of perception and action, viz. the skin, eye, tongue, nose, ear, larynx (or, acc. to some, the organ of speech), hand, foot, anus, and pudendum.