कौमार [ kaumāra ] [ kaúmāra ] m. f. n. ( fr. [ kumārá ] , or [ °rī ] Lit. Pāṇ. 4-2 , 13) , juvenile , youthful , belonging to a youth or young girl , maiden , maidenly , ( [kaúmāra loká ] , the youths and girls Lit. AV. xii , 3 , 47 ; [ kaumārī bhāryā ] ( Lit. Pat. and Lit. Kāś. on Lit. Pāṇ. 4-2 , 13 ) , " a virgin wife , one who has not had a husband previously " Lit. R. ; [ kaumāra pati ] ( Lit. Kāś. ; or [ °ra bhartṛ ] Lit. Pat. on Lit. Pāṇ. 4-2 , 13 ) , " a man who marries a virgin " Lit. Kathās. cxxvii , 55 ; [kaumāra vrata ] , a vow of abstinence Lit. MBh.)

soft , tender Lit. W.

relating to the god of war , belonging or peculiar to him , relating to Sanat-kumāra Lit. MBh. Lit. BhP. Lit. Kathās. ii , 76 Lit. Parāś. Lit. Madhus.

[ kaumāra ] m. the son of a maiden Lit. L.

N. of a mountain ( cf. [ -parvata ] ) Lit. MBh. vi , 426

m. pl. the followers of Kumāra's grammar , Lit. Prauḍh.

[ kaumārī ] f. one of the seven Mātṛis or personified energies of the gods , Śakti of Kumāra or Kārttikeya (the god of war) Lit. BrahmaP. Lit. DevībhP. ( 316,2 )

[ kaumāra ] m. a kind of bulbous root ( = [ vārāhī-kanda ] ) Lit. L.

(in music) N. of a Rāgiṇī

n. childhood , youth (from birth to the age of five) , maidenhood (to the age of sixteen) Lit. Mn. ix , 3 Lit. MBh. Lit. R.

n. (ifc. f ( [ ā ] ) .) Lit. Kathās.