aṃḍaḥ

aṃḍaḥ ḍaṃ [amaṃti saṃprayogaṃ yāṃti anena; am-ḍa Uṇ. 1. 111]

1 The testicles.

2 The scrotum.

3 An egg; oft. used with reference to the world as having sprung from the primordial egg of Brahmā; brahmāṃḍacchatraṃdaḍaḥ Dk. 1.

4 The musk bag.

5 Semen virile.

6 N. of Śiva.

Comp.

— ākarṣaṇaṃ castration.

— ākāra,

— ākṛti a. [bahu.] egg-shaped, oval, elliptical. (

— raḥ tiḥ) an ellipse.

— kaṭāhaḥ,

— haṃ [aṃḍaṃ brahmāṃḍaṃ kaṭāhamiva] the shell of the brahmāṃḍa or mundane egg.

— koṭarapuṣpī [aṃḍamiva koṭare madhye puṣpaṃ yasyāḥ] (pb) N. of a plant ajāṃtrī or nīlavuhnā.

— kośaḥ ṣaḥ, ṣakaḥ [ṣa. ta.] the scrotum.

— ja a. [aṃḍāt jāyate; jan-ḍa] born from an egg. (

— jaḥ)

1 a bird, oviparous being; mūkāṃḍajaṃ (kānanaṃ) Ku. 3. 42.

2 a fish.

3 a snake.

4 a lizard.

5 Brahmā. (

— jā) musk.

— dharaḥ [ṣa. ta.] N. of Śiva.

— vardhanaṃ, vṛddhiḥ f. swelling of the scrotum, hydrocele.

— sū a. oviparous.