1. Fault, vice, defect, or blemish.
2. Blame, accusation, or reproach.
3. Sin, guilt, crime, or offence.
4. Damage, harm, or detrimental effect.
5. Disease or disorder of the bodily humors.
6. Evening, dusk, or darkness.
दोष (doṣa) [Printed book page 0436-b] दोष (doṣa) doṣa, as, m. (fr. rt. 1.
duṣ), fault,
vice, defect, deficiency, want, blemish, blame, accu-
sation, reproach (with rt.
gam, to accuse, e. g.
do- ṣeṇa māṃ gacchati, he accuses me); a bad or
noxious quality; badness, wickedness, sinfulness;
offence, transgression, sin, guilt, crime; damage,
harm, detriment; bad consequence, detrimental effect
(e. g.
mātṛ-doṣāt, q. v.); morbid affection, morbid
element, disease; disorder of the three humors of
the human body, defect in the functions of
vāyu or wind,
pitta or bile, and
śleṣman or phlegm
(e. g.
tridoṣa-kṛt, causing disorder of the three
humors); a N. applied to the three fluid elements or
humors themselves (as causing diseases when in a state
of derangement); evening, dusk, darkness, Evening
personified as one of the eight Vasus and husband of
Night; refutation; a calf; (1.
doṣā), f. evening,
darkness, night; Night personified (regarded with
Prabhā as wife of Puṣpārṇa and mother of Pra-
doṣa or Evening, Niśitha or Midnight, and Vyuṣṭa
or Day-break);
doṣām, ind. in the evening;
doṣā, old inst. in the evening, at dusk, at night;
[cf.
anna-d°, tvag-d°, doṣas, pra-doṣa, prati- doṣam.]
—Doṣa-kara, as, ī, am, or
doṣa-kārin, ī, iṇī, i, or
doṣa-kṛt, t, t, t, causing evil or harm,
hurtful.
—Doṣa-kalpana, am, n. attributing blame,
reprehending, condemning.
—Doṣa-grasta, as, ā, am, involved in guilt, convicted, guilty.
—Doṣa-grāhin, ī, iṇī, i, fault-finding, censorious, vituperative, malicious,
malignant; [cf.
guṇa-grāhin.]
—Doṣa-ghna, as, ī, am, removing vitiation or disease of the humors.
—Doṣa-jña, as, ā, am, acquainted with what is
noxious or dangerous, discerning sins, understanding
diseases, knowing faults, &c. (
as), m. a physician;
a Pandit, teacher, discerning man.
—Doṣa-tas, ind. from a fault or defect;
doṣato brū, to accuse
of a fault.
—Doṣa-traya, am, n. vitiation of the
three humors, or wind, bile, and phlegm; any com-
bination of three defects.
—Doṣatraya-hara, as, ā, am, removing vitiation of the three humors.
—Doṣa-tva, am, n. faultiness, deficiency.
—Doṣa- dṛṣṭi, is, f. looking at faults, fault-finding.
—Doṣa- prasaṅga, as, m. attaching blame, attribution of
blame, censure, condemnation.
—Doṣa-bala-pra- vṛtta, as, ā, am, proceeding from the influence
of bad humors (a disease).
—Doṣa-bhāj, k, k, k, possessing faults, wrong, faulty, doing wrong, being
defective or to blame.
—Doṣa-bhīti, is, f. fear of
offence.
—Doṣa-bheda, as, m. a peculiar modifi-
cation of disease of the three humors.
—Doṣa-vat, ān, atī, at, having faults, faulty, defective, blemished,
deficient; guilty of an offence; detrimental, con-
Page0436-c+ 80 nected with crime or guilt, sinful, wicked; noxious,
dangerous.
—Doṣa-śamana, as, ā, am, allaying
disorder of the humors.
—Doṣa-sthāna, am, n. the
seat of disorder of the humors.
—Doṣa-hara, as, ā, am, removing disease of the humors.
—Doṣākara (°ṣa-āk°), as, ā or
ī, am, ‘a mine of faults,’ full of
defects, faulty;
(°ṣā-ka°), as, m. ‘the night-maker,’
epithet of the Moon.
—Doṣā-kleśī, f. ‘fading in
the evening,’ a kind of plant
(= vana-varvarikā). —Doṣākṣara (°ṣa-ak°), as, m. ‘a word of
blame,’ accusation, censure.
—Doṣā-tana, as, ī, am (fr.
doṣā, ind.), nocturnal, at evening, nightly.
—Doṣā-tilaka, as, m. ‘the ornament of the
night,’ a lamp.
—Doṣānuvāda (°ṣa-an°), as, m.
talking over faults, tale-bearing.
—Doṣā-bhūta, as, ā, am, having become night, turned into night.
—Doṣā-manya, as, ā, am, considering one's self
as night, regarding as night; [cf.
divā-manya.]
—Doṣāropa (°ṣa-ār°), as, m. imputing fault,
accusation.
—Doṣā-vastṛ, tā, m. (generally occur-
ring in loc.
doṣā-vastar), Ved. ‘illuminating the
darkness or shining in the evening,’ an epithet of
Agni; (Sāy.) by night and day.
—Doṣāsya (°ṣā- ās°), as, m. ‘the face of the night,’ a lamp.
—Do- ṣaikadṛś (°ṣa-ek°), k, k, k, seeing only defects,
fault-finding, censorious, malevolent.
—Doṣocchrāya (°ṣa-uc°), or
doṣopacaya (°ṣa-up°), as, m. the
rise or undue accumulation of vitiated humors.
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