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Entry कौमार

कौमारkaumāraThe wife of one who has not married another wife.
1. The wife of one who has not married another wife.
2. The Śakti (power) of Kārtikeya.
Derived forms and compounds
- कौमार kaumāra, Adjective
  
  (-री Feminine) कुमार-अण्
  
  Juvenile, youthful, virgin, maidenly (of men and women); कौमारः पतिः a man who marries a virgin; कौमारी भार्या a virgin wife; Compare Mbh. on ParasmaipadaIV.2.13.
  
  Soft, tender.
  
  Belonging to the god of war; Māl.1.1.
  
  Of principal incarnation; स एव प्रथमं देवः कौमारं सर्गमास्थितः Bhāg.1.3.6.
- -री
  
  marrying or gaining a woman as a girl.
  
  devirginating; यः कौमारहरः स एव हि वरः K. Parasmaipada1.
- -रम्
  
  Childhood (to the age of five).
  
  Maidenhood (to the age of sixteen), virginity; पीता रक्षति कौमारे भर्ता रक्षति यौवने Ms.9.3; देहिनोऽ- स्मिन् यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा Bg.2.13.
  
  -(ब्रह्म) चारिन् Adjective abstinent, chaste; Ks.66.155.
- -तन्त्रम् the section of a medical work, treating of the rearing or education of children.
- -बन्धकी a harlot; Māl.7.
- -भृत्यम् the rearing and general treatment of children.
- -राज्यम् the position of an heir-apparent; कौमार (Vartious reading कुमार) राज्ये जीवस्व Rām.2.58.23.
- -व्रतः (तम्) a vow of abstinence.
- -हर Adjective
In the Gita2·13

देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा ।

dehino'sminyathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā, — As the soul passes physically through childhood and youth and age, so it passes on to the changing of the body. The self-composed man does not allow… 2·13
- कौमारम्kaumāramnominative singular of the neuter noun kaumāra (adolescence).
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