शिशु [शो-कु सन्वद्भावः द्वित्वम्; cf. Uṇ. 1. 20]
1 A child, an infant; शिशुर्वा शिष्या वा U. 4. 11.
2 The young of any animal (as a calf, puppy, fawn &c.); Ś. 1. 15; 7. 14, 18.
3 A boy under eight or sixteen years of age.
4 A pupil, scholar.
−Comp.
−क्रंदः, -क्रंदनं the cry or weeping of a child.
−क्रंदीयः (i. e. ग्रथः) a work treating of the complaints of children.
−गंधा a kind of jasmine (double jasmine).
−चाद्रायणं a lunar penance of children; (चतुरः प्रातर- श्नीयींत्पडान् विप्रः समाहितः । चतुरोऽस्त- मिते सूर्ये शिशुचांद्रायणं स्मृतं ॥ Ms. 11. 220).
−नागः a young elephant.
−पालः N. of a king of the Cedis 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 Narasiṃha. He was next born as the ten-he added Rāvaṇa who was killed by Rāma. Then he was born as the son of Damaghoṣa, and continued his enmity to Kṛṣṇa, the eighth incarnation of Viṣṇu, with even greater implacability; (see Śi. 1.) He denounced Kṛṣṇa when they met at the Rajasuya sacrifice of Yudhiṣṭhira, but his head was cut off by Kṛṣṇa with his discus. His death forms the subject of a celebrated poem by Māgha]
. ºहन् m. an epithet of Kṛṣṇa.
−मारः the Gangetic porpoise. ºशिरसु n. the north-east quarter. −वाहकः, वाह्यकः a wild goat.
−हत्या childmurder, infanticide.