कुम्भ

Definitions

• a jar, pitcher, water-pot, ewer, small water-jar.
• an urn in which the bones of a dead person are collected.
• (astrology) The sign of the zodiac Aquarius.
• a measure of grain (equal to twenty द्रोणs, a little more than three bushels and three gallons ; commonly called a comb ; some make it two द्रोणs or sixty-four Seers).
• the frontal globe or prominence on the upper part of the forehead of an elephant (there are two of these prominences which swell in the rutting season).