ཤུགས་

ཤུགས། (Wyl. shugs ) Pron.: shuk

• Skt. कोशः, kośa, Pron.: kosha. From Sanskrit: in class. literature | or | fr. | or | related to | and | a cask, vessel for holding liquids, (metaphorically) cloud | a pail, bucket | a drinking-vessel, cup | a box, cupboard, drawer, trunk | the interior or inner part of a carriage | a sheath, scabbard | a case, covering, cover | store-room, store, provisions | a treasury, apartment where money or plate is kept, treasure, accumulated wealth (gold or silver, wrought or unwrought, as plate, jewellery) | (in •surg.) a kind of bandage | a dictionary, lexicon or vocabulary | a poetical collection, collection of sentences | a bud, flower-cup, seed-vessel | the sheath or integument of a plant, pod, nut-shell | a nutmeg | the inner part of the fruit of Artocarpus integrifolia and of similar fruits | the cocoon of a silk-worm | the membrane covering an egg (in the womb) | the vulva | a testicle or the scrotum | the penis | an egg | (in Vedānta •phil.) a term for the three sheaths or succession of cases which make up the various frames of the body enveloping the soul (these are, 1. the | or 'sheath of pleasure', forming the | or 'causal frame' | 2. the | or | or | or | 'the sheath of intellect or will or life', forming the | or 'subtile frame' | 3. the | 'the sheath of nourishment', forming the | or | a ball or globe | a ball of thread | the eye-ball | the water used at an ordeal or judicial trial (the defendant drinks thrice of it after some idol has been washed in it) | an oath | a cup used in the ratification of a treaty of peace | to drink from that cup | N. of a conjunction of planets | of the 2nd astrological mansion | with | of a collection of Gāthā verses [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW