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Entry कूर्म

कूर्मkūrmaपृष्ठम्, पृष्ठकम् the back or shell of a tortoise.
1. पृष्ठम्, पृष्ठकम् the back or shell of a tortoise.
2. a lid or cover of a dish.
Derived forms and compounds
- -राजः Viṣṇu in the shape of tortoise in his second incarnation; पृथ्वि स्थिरा भव भुजङ्गम धारयैनाम् । त्वं कूर्मराज तदिदं द्वितयं दधीथाः ॥ Mahān.
- कूर्मः kūrmḥ
  
  कौ जले ऊर्मिर्वेगोऽस्य पृषोdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied Tv.
  
  A tortoise; गूहे- त्कूर्म इवाङ्गानि रक्षेद्विवरमात्मनः Ms.7.15; Bg.2.58; कूर्मः पादोऽत्र यष्टिर्भुजगपतिरसौ भाजनं भूतधात्री Udb.
  
  Viṣṇu in his second or Kūrma incarnation.
  
  One of the outer winds of the body.
  
  A particular gesticulation with the fingers.
- -र्मी A female tortoise.
- -अवतारः the Kūrma incarnation of Viṣṇu; Compare Gīt.1: क्षिति- रतिविपुलतरे तव तिष्ठति पृष्ठे धरणिधरणकिणचक्रगरिष्ठे । केशवधृत- कच्छरूप जय जगदीश हरे ॥ -आसनम् a particular posture in sitting (practised by ascetics).
- -द्वादशी the twelvth day in the light (or dark ?) half of पौष month.
- -पुराणम् one of the eighteen Purāṇas.
In the Gita2·58

यदा संहरते चायं कूर्मोऽङ्गानीव सर्वशः ।

yadā saṁharate cāyaṁ kūrmo'ṅgānīva sarvaśaḥ, — Who draws away the senses from the objects of sense, as the tortoise draws in his limbs into the shell, his intelligence sits firmly founded in… 2·58
- कूर्मःkūrmaḥnominative singular of the masculine noun kūrma (the tortoise).
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