m.Name of a class of demi-gods who like the yakṣa-s are attendants of kubera- (the god of wealth) and guardians of his treasures (they may have received their N. from living in mountain caverns) etc. (identified with yakṣa-s )
गुह्य pot. p. 1 To be concealed, covered or kept secret, private; गुह्यं च गूहति Bh.2.72. -2 Secret, solitary, retired. -3 Mysterious; Bg.18.63; पुरुषार्थज्ञानमिदं गुह्यम् Sāṅ K.69. -ह्यः 1 Hypocrisy. -2 An epithet of Viṣṇu. -3 A tortoise. -ह्यम् 1 A secret, mystery; मौनं चैवास्मि गुह्यानाम् Bg.1.38;9.2; Ms.12.117; Pt.2.49; नास्य गुह्यं परे विद्युः छिद्रं विद्यात्परस्य च Kau. A.1.15. -2 A privity, the male or female organ of generation; सगुडं पिष्टरचितं गुह्यरूपं जुगुप्सितम् Ks.2.56. -3 The anus. -4 a private, secret place; मैथुनं सततं धर्म्यं गुह्ये चैव समाचरेत् Mb.12.193.17. -Comp. -गुरुः an epithet of Śiva; (considered as the special teacher of the Tantras). -दीपकः the fire-fly. -निष्यन्दः urine. -पुष्पः the Aśvattha tree ('with concealed blossoms'). -भाषितम् 1 secret speech or conversation. -2 a secret. -मयः an epithet of Kārtikeya. -रुज् f. a disease of the pudenda; Bṛi. S.5.86. -विद्या knowledge of Mantras or mystical incantations; V. P.1.9.117.
गुह्यकः 1 N. of a class of demigods, who, like the Yakṣas, are attendants of Kubera and guardians of his treasures; गुह्यकस्तं ययाचे Me.5; Ms.12.47. -2 The number 'eleven'. -Comp. -अधिपतिः, -ईश्वरः an epithet of Kubera.
noun (neuter) a secret (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
mystery (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the anus (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the pudenda (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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a kind of alchemical apparatus Frequency rank 2803/72933
noun (masculine) a tortoise (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
hypocrisy (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Viṣṇu (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Śiva Frequency rank 17874/72933
adjective concealable (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
mysterious (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
mystical (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
private (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
secret (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
to be covered or concealed or hidden or kept secret (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (masculine) a Yakṣa (?)
genital
name of a class of demi-gods who like the Yakṣas are attendants of Kubera (the god of wealth) and guardians of his treasures (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Kubera (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the number "eleven" (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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