Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

kamaṭha कमठ – tortoise

substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Dictionary sources

AYI dictionary substantive masculine
Cappeller 1891 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

kamaṭha ·m. tortoise.

Monier-Williams 1872 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

kamaṭha kamaṭha, as, m. (said to be fr. 2. kam), a tortoise; a porcupine; a water-jar, especially one made of a hollow gourd or cocoa-nut, and used by ascetics; a bamboo; N. of a prince; of a Muni; and of a Daitya; (ī), f. a female tortoise, a small one.

Petersburger 1855 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive masculine

kamáṭha m. 1〉 Schildkröte Uṇ. 1,100. AK. 1,2,3,21. H. 1353. H. an. 3,174. MED. ṭh. 12. BHARTṚ. 2,28. BHARTṚ. Suppl. 2,23. PAÑCAT. II, 199. BHĀG. P. 1,3,16. f. kamaṭhī Schildkrötenweibchen oder eine kleine Schildkröte AK. 1,2,3,24. ŚĀNTIŚ. 4,13. — 2〉 Stachelschwein (śallakī) DHAR._im_ŚKDR. — 3〉 Wassertopf der Einsiedler (wohl wegen der Aehnlichkeit mit einer Schildkrötenschale) H. an. neutr. nach MED. und HĀR. 138. — 4〉 Bambusrohr ŚABDAR._im_ŚKDR. — 5〉 N. pr. eines Fürsten MBH. 2,117. eines Muni R._in_Verz. d. B. H. 122,12. Verz. d. B. H. 126,3. eines Daitya H. an.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

kamaṭha 1〉 PAÑCAR. 3,2,27. kamaṭhī ĀNANDALAH. 88. — 5〉 kamaṭhāsuravadha Verz. d. Oxf. H. 78,b,43.

Böhtlingk 1879 substantive masculine

Original text · German · substantive masculine

kamaṭha m. — 1〉 Schildkröte. — 2〉 *Stachelschwein. — 3〉 *Wassertopf der Einsiedler. Nach Einigen n. — 4〉 *Bambusrohr. — 5〉 N. pr. — a〉 eines Fürsten. — b〉 eines Muni. — c〉 eines Asura.

Apte 1890 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

kamaṭhaḥ [Uṇ. 1. 100] 1 A tortoise; saṃprāptaḥ kamaṭhaḥ sa cāpi niyataṃ naṣṭastavādeśataḥ Pt. 2. 184. 2 A bamboo. 3 A water-jar. — ṭhī A female tortoise or a small tortoise. Comp. — patiḥ a king of tortoises.

Cappeller 1887 substantive masculine

Original text · German · substantive masculine

kamaṭha m. Schildkröte.

Occurrences in source texts (1)

HP 1 occurrence
HP 1.4-1.10: Lineage of Siddhas 1 occurrence

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