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Derived forms and compounds

• -कृच्छ्रम् a form of penance.

• -क्रन्दः क्रन्दनम् the cry or weeping of a child.

• -क्रन्दीयः (id est, that is ग्रन्थः) a work treating of the complaints of children; ParasmaipadaIV. 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

  1. a young elephant.
  2. a young snake.

• -नामन् Masculine a camel.

• -पालः Name 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.] denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedहन् Masculine an epithet of Kṛiṣṇa.

• -प्रियः treacle. (-यम्) the white water-lily.

• -मारः

  1. the Gangetic porpoise.
  2. a collection of stars held to be a form of Viṣṇu. denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedशिरस् Neuter the north-east quarter; शिशुमार- शिरः प्राप्य न्यविशंस्ते स्म पार्थिवाः Mb.1.185.16.

• -वाहकः, -वाह्यकः a wild goat.

• -हत्या child-murder, infanticide.

Derived forms and compounds

• -शुः

  1. A youth. श्वीः, अशिश्विका A childless female; without young ones (as a cow); स्तनाभुजो अशिश्वीः Rv.1. 12.8.
  2. A childless woman.