śaś | शश् | zaz

śa/ś | श/श् | mfn. pl. (prob. for orig. śakś | शक्श् |; nom. acc. śa/w | श/w | instr. śaqBi/s | शक़्Bइ/स् | dat. abl. śaqBya/s | शक़्Bय/स् |, gen. śaṝā/m | शॠआ/म् | loc. śawsu/ | शwसु/ |; in comp. śaś | शश् | becomes śaw | शw | before hard letters, śaq | शक़् | before soft, śo | शो | before d, which is changed into q, and R before nasals) six (with the counted object in apposition or exceptionally in gen. or ifc., e.g. śaq ftavah | शक़् फ़्तवह् |, or śaq ftunām | शक़् फ़्तुनाम् |, ‘the six seasons’, śawsu śatsu māseśu | शwसु शत्सु मासेशु |, ‘at periods of six months’, Mn. viii, 403 at the end of a Bahuvrīhi compound it is declined like other words ending in z, e. g. priya-śaśas | प्रिय-शशस् | nom. pl. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 22 Schol.; among the words used as expressions for the number six (esp. in giving dates) are aṇga | अण्ग |, darṣana | दर्षन |, tarka | तर्क |, rasa | रस |, ftu | फ़्तु |, vajrakoṛa | वज्रकोऋअ |, kārttikeya-muKa | कार्त्तिकेय-मुKअ |), RV. &c. &c.
(in gram.) a tech. N. for numerals ending in z and n and words like kati | कति |, Pāṇ. i, 1, 24, 25
śaś | शश् | [cf. Gk. ἕξ; Lat. sex; Goth. saíhs; Germ. sëhs, sechs; Eng. six.]

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