पुत्रः [putrḥ] 1 A son; (the word is thus derived: पुन्नाम्नो नरकाद् यस्मात् त्रायते पितरं सुतः । तस्मात् पुत्र इति प्रोक्तः स्वयमेव स्वयंभुवा ॥
[Ms.9.138;] the word, therefore, should be strictly written पुत्त्रः).
A child, young one of an animal.
A dear child (a term of endearment in addressing young persons).
(At the end of comp.) Anything little or small of its kind; as in असिपुत्रः, शिलापुत्रः &c.
(Astrol.) The fifth mansion from जन्मलग्न.
-त्रौ (du.) A son and daughter.
Comp. अन्नादः one who lives at a son's expense, one who is maintained by his son.
a mendicant of a particular order; see कुटीचक.
-अर्थिन् a. a. wishing for a son.-आचार्य a. one having a son for his teacher;
[Me.3.] 16.
आदिनी an unnatural mother.
a tigress.-इष्टिः,
-इष्टिका f. f. a sacrifice performed to obtain male issue; गृहीत्वा पञ्चवर्षीयं पुत्रेष्टिं प्रथमं चरेत्.
-ऐश्वर्यम् a resignation of property or power by a father to his son.
-कर्मन् n. n. a ceremony on the birth of a son.-काम a. desirous of sons.
-काम्या a wish for sons; अथाभ्यर्च्य विधातारं प्रयतौ पुत्रकाम्यया
[R.1.35.] -कार्यम् a ceremony relating to a son.
-कृत् m. m. an adopted son.-कृतकः one who is adopted as a son, an adopted son; श्यामाकमुष्टिपरिवर्धितको जहाति सोऽयं न पुत्रकृतकः पदवीं मृगस्ते
[Ś.4.14.] -जग्धी an unnatural mother (who eats her own children.)
-जात a. a. one to whom a son is born.-दारम् son and wife.
-धर्मः filial duty.
-पौत्रम्, -त्राः sons and grandsons.
-पौत्रीण a. a. transmitted from son to son, hereditary; लक्ष्मीं परंपरीणां त्वं पुत्रपौत्रीणतां नय
[Bk.5.15.] -प्रतिनिधिः a substitute for a son. (e. g. an adopted son).
-प्रवरः the eldest son.
-लाभः obtaining a son.
-वधः f. f. a daughter-in-law.
-सखः 'a friend of children', one who is fond of children.
-सूः a mother of a son.
-हीन a. a. sonless, childless. -संकरिन्a. mixing or confusing sons by mixed marriages.
-हतः an epithet of Vasiṣṭha (whose hundred sons where killed). (-ती) an unnatural mother.