māśa | माश | mAza
mā/śa | मा/श | m. (n. g. arḍarcādi | अर्डर्चादि |) 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 | बाह्व्-आदि |
pl. (with or scil. akfśwāḥ | अक्फ़्श्wआः |) ‘wild beans’, N. of a Ṛṣi-gaṇa (the children of Su-rabhi, to whom, RV. ix, 86, 1-10 is ascribed), RAnukr.; R.; Hariv.
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 | बाह्व्-आदि |
pl. (with or scil. akfśwāḥ | अक्फ़्श्wआः |) ‘wild beans’, N. of a Ṛṣi-gaṇa (the children of Su-rabhi, to whom, RV. ix, 86, 1-10 is ascribed), RAnukr.; R.; Hariv.