षष् [ ṣaṣ ] [ ṣáṣ ] m. f. n. pl. ( prob. for orig. [ ṣakṣ ] ; nom. acc. [ ṣáṭ ] instr. [ ṣaḍbhí s ] dat. abl. [ ṣaḍbhyás ] , gen. [ ṣaṇṇā́m ] loc. [ ṣaṭsú ] ; in comp. [ ṣaṣ ] becomes [ ṣaṭ ] before hard letters , [ ṣaḍ ] before soft , [ ṣo ] before [ d ] , which is changed into [ ḍ ] , and [ ṇ ] before nasals) six ( with the counted object in apposition or exceptionally in gen. or ifc. e.g. [ ṣaḍ ṛtavah ] , or [ ṣaḍ ṛtunām ] , " the six seasons " , [ ṣaṭsu ] [ ṣatsu māseṣu ] , " at periods of six months " Lit. Mn. viii 403 at the end of a Bahuvrīhi compound it is declined like other words ending in [ ṣ ] , e. g. [ priya-ṣaṣas ] nom. pl. Lit. Pāṇ. 7-1 , 22 Schol. ; among the words used as expressions for the number six (esp. in giving dates) are [ aṅga ] , [ darśana ] , [ tarka ] , [ rasa ] , [ ṛtu ] [ vajrakoṇa ] [ kārttikeya-mukha ] ) Lit. RV.

(in gram) a tech. N. for numerals ending in [ ṣ ] and [ n ] and words like [ kati ] Lit. Pāṇ. 1-1 , 24 , 25

[ ṣaṭ ] ind. six times Lit. ŚBr. ( cf. Gk. 1 ; Lat. (sex) ; Goth. (saīhs) ; Germ. (sëhs) , (sechs) ; Eng. (six) . )