शव् शशक

शश

शश 1 A hare, rabbit; Ms. 3. 270, 5. 18.
2 The spots on the moon (which are popularly considered to resemble the form of a hare).
3 One of the four classes into which men are divided by erotic writers; thus defined: −मृदुवच- नसुशीलः कोमलांगः सुकेशः सकलगुण- निधानं सत्यवादी शशोऽयं Śabdak.; see Ratimañjarī 35 also.
4 The Lodhra tree.
5 Gum-myrrh.
−Comp.
−अंकः 1. the moon. −2. camphor. ºअर्धमुख a. crescent-headed (as an arrow). ºमूर्तिः an epithet of the moon. ºलेखा the digit of the moon, lunar crescent.
−अदः 1. a hawk, falcon. −2. N. of a son of Ikṣvāku, father of पुरंजय.
−अदनः a hawk, falcon. −ऊर्णं, −लोमन् n. the hair of a rabbit, hair-skin.
−धरः 1. the moon; प्रस- रति शशधरविंबे Gīt. 7. −2. camphor. ºमौलिः an epithet of Śiva.
−प्लुतकं a scratch with a finger-nail.
−भृत् m. the moon. ºभृत् m. an epithet of Śiva
−लक्ष्मणः an epithet of the moon.
−लंछनः 1. the moon; Ku. 7. 6. −2. camphor. −विं(विं)दुः 1. the moon. −2. an epithet of Vishṇu. −विषाणं, −शृंगं a hair's horn; used to denote anything impossible, an utter impossibility; कदाचिदपि पर्यटञ् शशविषाणमासादयेत् Bh. 2. 5; शशशृंगधनुर्धरः; see खपुष्प.
−स्थली the country between the Ganges and Yamunā, the Doab.

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