शिशुः [śiśuḥ] [शो-कु सन्वद्भावः द्वित्वम् cf.
[Uṇ.1.2] ]
A child, an infant; शिशुर्वा शिष्या वा
[U.4.11.] The young of any animal (as a calf, puppy, fawn &c.); नष्टाशङ्का हरिणशिशवो मन्दमन्दं चरन्ति
[Ś.1.15;7.14,18.] A boy under eight or sixteen years of age.
A pupil, scholar.
An elephant in the sixth year;
[Mātaṅga L.5.8.] -Comp.
-कृच्छ्रम् a form of penance.
-क्रन्दः, क्रन्दनम् the cry or weeping of a child.
-क्रन्दीयः (i. e. ग्रन्थः) a work treating of the complaints of children;
[P.IV. 3.88.] -गन्धा a kind of jasmine (double jasmine).-चान्द्रायणम् a lunar penance of children; चतुरः प्रातरश्नीयात् पिण्डान् विप्रः समाहितः । चतुरोऽस्तमिते सूर्ये शिशुचान्द्रा- यणं स्मृतम् ॥
[Ms.11.219.] नागः a young elephant.
a young snake.
-नामन् m. m. a camel.
-पालः N. N. of of a king of the Chedis and son of Damaghoṣa. [According to the Viṣṇu Purāṇa this monarch was, in a previous existence, the unrighteous Hiraṇyakaśipu, king of the Asuras who was killed by Viṣṇu in the form of Narasiṁha. He was next born as the ten-headed Rāvaṇa who was killed by Rāma. Then he was born as the son of Damaghoṣa, and continued his enmity to Kṛiṣṇa, the eighth incarnation of Viṣṇu, with even greater implacability; see
[Śi.1.] He denounced Kṛiṣṇa when they met at the Rājasūya sacrifice of Yudhiṣṭhira, but his head was cut off by Kṛiṣṇa with his discus. His death forms the subject of a celebrated poem by Māgha.] ˚हन् m. an epithet of Kṛiṣṇa.
-प्रियः treacle. (-यम्) the white water-lily.
मारः the Gangetic porpoise.
a collection of stars held to be a form of Viṣṇu. ˚शिरस् n. the north-east quarter; शिशुमार- शिरः प्राप्य न्यविशंस्ते स्म पार्थिवाः
[Mb.1.185.16.] -वाहकः, -वाह्यकः a wild goat.
-हत्या child-murder, infanticide.