घटः _ghaṭḥ

घटः [घट-अच्]

1 A large earthen water-jar, pitcher, jar, watering-pot; आकाशमेकं हि यथा घटादिषु पृथग्भवेत् Y. 3.144; कूपे पश्य पयोनिधावपि घटो गृह्णाति तुल्यं जलम् Bh.2.49.

-2 The sign Aquarius of the zodiac (also called कुम्भ).

-3 An elephant's frontal sinus.

-4 Suspending the breath as a religious exercise.

-5 A measure equal to 2 droṇas.

-6 A part of a column; स्तम्भं विभज्य नवधा वहनं भागो घटो$स्य भागो$न्यः Bṛi. S.53.29.

-7 A border.

-8 A peculiar form of a temple; Bṛi. S.56.18,26.

-9 The head; 'घटः समाधिभेदे ना शिरः कूटकटेषु च' Medinī; Mb.1.155.38.

-Comp. -आटोपः covering for a car- riage or any article of furniture.

-उदरः N. of Gaṇeśa; घटोदरः शूर्पकर्णो गणाध्यक्षो मदोत्कटः Ks.55.165.

-उद्भवः, -जः, -योनिः, -संभवः epithets of the sage Agastya.

-ऊधस् f. (forming

घटोध्नी) a cow with a full udder; गाः कोटिशः स्पर्शयता घटोध्नीः R.2.49.

-कञ्चुकि n. a rite practised by Tāntrikas and Śāktas (in which the bodices of different women are placed in a receptacle (घट) and the men present at the ceremony are allowed to take them out one by one and then cohabit with the woman to whom each bodice belongs); Āgamapr.

-कर्परः 1 N. of a poet.

-2 a piece of a broken jar, pot-sherd; जीयेय येन कविना यमकैः परेण तस्मै वहेयमुदकं घट- कर्परेण Ghāṭ.22.

-कारः, -कृत् m. a potter; Bṛi. S.15. 1;16.29.

-ग्रहः a water-bearer.

-दासी a procuress; cf. कुम्भदासी.

-पर्यसनम् the ceremony of performing the funeral rites of a patita or apostate (who is unwilling to go back to his caste &c.) during his very life-time.

-भवः, -योनिः Agastya.

-भेदनकम् an instru- ment used in making pots.

-राजः a water-jar of baked clay.

-स्थापनम् placing a water-pot as a type of Durgā for nine days (नवरात्रम्).