ṣáṣ mfn. pl. (prob. for orig. ṣakṣ

• nom. acc. ṣáṭ instr. ṣaḍbhís dat. abl. ṣaḍbhyás, gen. ṣaṇṇā́m loc. ṣaṭsú

• in comp. ṣaṣ becomes ṣaṭ before hard letters, ṣaḍ before soft, ṣo before d, which is changed into ḍ, and ṇ before nasals) six (with the counted object in apposition or exceptionally in gen. or ifc., e.g. ṣaḍ ṛtavah, or ṣaḍ ṛtunām, 'the six seasons', ṣaṭsu ṣatsu māseṣu, 'at periods of six months' Mn. viii 403 at the end of a Bahuvrihi compound it is declined like other words ending in ṣ, e. g. priya-ṣaṣas nom. pl. Pāṇ. 7-1, 22 schol

• among the words used as expressions for the number six (esp. in giving dates) are aṅga, darśana, tarka, rasa, ṛtu vajrakoṇa kārttikeya-mukha) RV. &c.&c

• (in gram) a tech. N. for numerals ending in ṣ and n and words like kati Pāṇ. 1-1, 24, 25

• (ṣaṭ), ind. six times ŚBr. [Cf. Gk. ? ; Lat. sex ; Goth. saīhs ; Germ. [1108, 1] se10hs, sechs ; Eng. six.]