शेष a &c. See
p. 1088, col. 3.
शेष mn. bmn. (
fr. √
2.शिष्) remainder, that which remains or is left, leavings, residue (
pl. ‘all the others’), surplus, balance, effect, the rest (
शेषेloc. ‘for the rest’, ‘in all other cases’;
शेषे रात्रौ, ‘during the rest of the night’;
मम शेषम् अस्ति, ‘there remains something to happen to me’)
इति शेषः that which has to be supplied (
e.g. any word or words which have been omitted in a sentence; , ‘so it was left to be supplied’, a phrase commonly used by
Comm. in supplying any words necessary to elucidate the text)
अस् that which is saved or spared or allowed to escape (
nom. with √ , or √
भू, ‘to be spared’;
शेषं-√ कृ, ‘to spare’, ‘allow to escape’;
शेषम् अवा-प् ‘to escape’),
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] ;
[R.] &c.
कथा-श्° f. remaining (used as an
adj. at the end of
adj. comp. [
f(आ). ],
cf. ,
कृत्य-श्°),
[AitBr.] &c. &c.
प्रयातेभ्यो ये शेषाः remaining out of or from, left from (with
abl. or
loc. e.g. , ‘the persons left out of those who had departed’; but mostly
ifc. after a pp. in
comp. e.g. भुक्त-शेष, ‘remaining from a meal’, ‘remnant of food’;
हत-शेषाः, ‘those left out of the slain’, ‘the survivors’ &c.),
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] &c.
end, issue, conclusion, finish, result,
[RV. 77, 15] last, last-mentioned,
[Rājat.] a supplement, appendix,
[Nir. iii, 13] a keepsake, token of remembrance,
[Daś.] secondary matter, accident,
KātyŚr. Sch. death, destruction,
[W.] शेष m. m.N. of a celebrated mythological thousand-headed serpent regarded as the emblem of eternity (whence he is also called
अन्-अन्त, ‘the infinite’; in the
विष्णु-पुराण he and the serpents
वासुकि and
तक्षक are described as sons of
कद्रु, but in one place
शेष alone is called king of the
नागs or snakes inhabiting
पाताल, while elsewhere
वासुकि also is described as king of the
नगs and
तक्षक of the serpents; the thousand headed
शेष is sometimes represented as forming the couch and canopy of
विष्णु whilst sleeping during the intervals of creation, sometimes as supporting the seven
पातालs with the seven regions above them and therefore the entire world
; he is said to have taught astronomy to
गर्ग; according to some legends he became incarnate in
बल-रामq.v. ),
[MBh.] ;
[Hariv.] ;
[Pur.] &c. (
[RTL. 105; 112; 232 n. 1] )
N. of one of the
प्रजा-पतिs,
[R.] ;
[VP.] of a
मुनि,
[MW.] आचार्य (also with ,
दीक्षित,
शास्त्रिन् &c.) of various authors (
cf. below)
of one of the mythical elephants that support the earth,
[L.] a kind of metre,
[L.] शेष n. n. See above.