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Entry श्वन्
श्वन्śvanm.गणिकः a hunter.
[श्वि-कनिन् निdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied Uṇ.1.158] (Nominative श्वा, श्वानौ, श्वानःAccusativePluralशुनः; शुनीFeminine) A dog; श्वा यदि क्रियते राजा स किं नाश्नात्युपानहम् Subhāṣ; Bh.2.31; Ms.2.28. -Compound -अदःEquivalent toश्वपाकःquod vide, which see; श्वादोऽपि सद्यः सवनाय कल्पते Bhāg.3.33.6.-अश्वः an epithet of Bhairava. -क्रीडिन्, -वत्Masculine a keeper or breeder of sporting dogs; Ms.3.164;4.216.-गणः a pack of hounds.
गणिकः a hunter.
a dog feeder.
Derived forms and compounds
-जीविका dog's life, servitude.
-दंष्ट्रा
a dog's tooth.
The गोक्षुर plant (Marâthîगोखरू).
-दयितम् a bone.
-धूर्तः a jackal.
-नरः a snappish or currish fellow.
-निशम्, -निशा a night on which dogs bark; (the 14th day of the dark half of a month).
-पच्Masculine,
-पचः
a man of a very low and degraded caste, an outcast, a Chāṇḍāla; Ms.3.92; श्वपचात्मभुवोर्निरन्तरा मम भूयात् परमात्मनि स्थितिः Bv.4.23.
a dog-feeder.
a public executioner.
-व्याघ्रः
a beast of prey.
a tiger.
a leopard.
-हन्
Masculine a hunter.
the life of a dog (to which servitude is often likened); सेवां लाघवकारिणीं कृतधियः स्थाने श्ववृत्तिं विदुः Mu.3.14; Ms.4.6.
servitude, service; सत्यानृताभ्यामपि वा न श्ववृत्त्या कदाचन (जीवेत्) Ms.4.4.
-पदम्
a dog's foot.
a mark like a dog's foot (to be branded on the forehead of a thief); स्तेये च श्वपदं कार्यम् Ms.9.237.
-पाकः an outcast, a Chāṇḍāla; क्षत्तुर्जातस्तथोग्रायां श्वपाक इति कीर्त्यते Ms.1.19; श्वपाको जल्पाको भवति मधुपाकोपमगिरा । देव्यपराधक्षमापनस्तोत्रम् 6; शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः Bg.5.18; G. Latin29.
śuni caiva śvapāke ca paṇḍitāḥ samadarśinaḥ. — Sages see with an equal eye the learned and cultured Brahmin, the cow, the elephant, the dog, the outcaste. 5·18
शुनिśunilocative singular of the masculine noun śvan (dog).
