paMcan num. a. (Always pl. ; nom. and acc. paMca ) Five. (As the first member of comp. paMcan drops its final n ). [ cf. Gr. pente ] Comp. — aMSaH the fifth part, a fifth. — agniH 1 an aggregate of five sacred fires; i. e. ( pb ) ( anvAhAryapacana or dakziRa, gArhapatya , AhavanIya, saBya , and AvasaTya ) 2 a householder who maintains the five sacred fires; paMcAgnayo DftavratAH Māl. 1 ; Ms. 3. 185. 3 five mystic fires supposed to exist in the body. 4 one who is acquainted with the doctrine of these fires. — aMga a. five-membered, having five parts or divisions as in paMcAMgaH praRAmaH ( i. e. bAhuByAM cEva jAnuByAM SirasA vakzasA dfSA ); kftapaMcAMgavinirRayo nayaH Ki. 2. 12 (see Malli. and Kāmandaka quoted by him); paMcAgamaBinayamupadiSya M. 1 ; cittAkziBrhastapAdEraMgEScezwAdisAmyataH . pAtrAdyavasTAkaraRaM paMcAgo 'Binayo mataH .. . — (gaH) 1 a tortoise or turtle. 2 a kind of horse with five spots in different parts of his body. — (gI) a bit for horses. — (gaM) 1 collection or aggregate of five parts. 2 five modes of devotion. 3 the five parts of a tree; tvakpatrakusumaM mUlaPalamekasya SAKinaH . ekatra militaM cEtat paMcAMgamiti saMjYitam .. . 4 a calender or almanac, so called because it treats of five things: (- tiTirvAraSca nakzatraM yogaH karaRameva ca ); caturaMgabalo rAjA jagatIM vaSamAnayet . ahaM paMcAMgabalavAnAkASaM vaSamAnaye .. Subhāṣ. °guptaH a turtle. °patraM a calender. °SudDiH f. the propitiousness or favourable state of five important points; i. e. tiTi, vAra , nakzatra, yoga , and karaRa (in astrology). — aMgika a. five-membered. — aMgula a. ( lA or lI f. ) measuring five fingers. — (laH) the castor-oil plant. — a (A) jaM the five products of the goat. — apsaras n. N. of a lake, said to have been created by the sage Māṇḍakarṇi; cf. R. 13. 38. — amfta a. consisting of 5 ingredients. — (taM) 1 the aggregate of any five drugs. 2 the collection of five sweet things used in worshipping deities; ( dugDaM ca SarkarA cEva GftaM daDi taTA maDu ). — arcis m. the planet Mercury. — avayava a. five-membered (as a syllogism, the five members being, pratijYA, hetu , udAharaRa, upanaya and nigamana q. q. v. v.). — avasTaH a corpse; (so called because it is resolved into the five elements); cf. paMcatva below. — avikaM the five products of the sheep. — aSItiH f. eighty-five. — ahaH a period of five days. — Atapa a. doing penance with five fires ( i. e. with four fires and the sun); cf. R. 13. 41. ( pb ) — Atmaka a. consisting of five elements (as body). — AnanaH, -AsyaH , — muKaH, -vaktraH 1 epithets of Śiva. 2 a lion (so called because its mouth is generally wide open; paMcaM AnanaM yasya ), (often used at the end of names of learned men to express great learning or respect; nyAya°, tarka° &c., e. g. jagannATatarkapaMcAnana ). 3 the sign Leo of the zodiac. — (nI) an epithet of Durgā. — AmnAyAH ( m. pl. ) five Śāstras supposed to have proceeded from the five mouths of Śiva. — iMdriyaM an aggregate of the five organs (of sense or actions; see iMdriyaM ). — izuH , — bARaH, -SaraH epithets of the god of love; (so called because he has five arrows: their names are: - araviMdamaSokaM ca cUtaM ca navamallikA . nIlotpalaM ca pacEte paMcabARasya sAyakAH ; the five arrows are also thus named: - saMmohanonmAdanO ca SozaRastApanastaTA . staMBanaSceti kAmasya paMcabARAH prakIrtitAH .. ). — uzman m. pl. the five digestive fires supposed to be in the body. — kapAla a. prepared or offered in five cups. — karRa a. branded in the ear with the number ‘five’ (as cattle &c.); cf. P. VI. 3. 115. — karman n. (in medicine) the five kinds of treatment; i. e. 1 vamana ‘giving emetics’; 2 recana ‘purging’; 3 nasya ‘giving strenutatories’; 4 anuvAsana ‘administering an enema which is oily’, and 5 nirUha ‘administering an enema which is not oily’. — kftvas ind. five times. — koRaH a pentagon. — kolaM the five spices taken collectively. — kozAH ( m. pl. ) the five vestures or wrappers supposed to invest the soul; they are: — annamayakoza or the earthly body ( sTUlaSarIra ); prARamayakoza the vesture of the vital airs; manomayakoza the sensorial vesture; vijYAnamayakoza the cognitional vesture (these three form the liMgaSarIra ); and AnaMdamayakoza the last vesture, that of beatitude. — kroSI 1 a distance of five Krośas. 2 N. of the city Benāres. — KawvaM , — KawvI a collection of five beds. — gata a. (in alg. ) raised to the fifth power. — gavaM a collection of five cows. — gavyaM the five products of the cow taken collectively; i. e. milk, curds, clarified butter or ghee, urine, and cowdung ( kzIraM daDi taTA cAjyaM mUtraM gomayameva ca ). — gu a. bought with five ( pb ) cows. — guRa a. five-fold. — (RAH) the five objects of sense ( rUpa, rasa, gaMDa , sparSa and Sabda ). — (RI) the earth. — guptaH 1 a tortoise. 2 the materialistic system of philosophy, the doctrines of the Cārvākas. — catvAriMSa a. forty-fifth. — catvAriMSat f. forty-five. — janaH 1 a man, mankind. 2 N. of a demon who had assumed the form of a conch-sh...