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śirasशिरस्śíras n. (prob. originally śaras = karas; and connected with karaṅka, q.v.) the head, skull (acc. with √ dā, ‘to give up one's head i.e. life’; with √ dhṛ, or √ vah, ‘to hold up one's head, be proud’; with Caus. of √ vṛt or with upa-√ sthā, ‘to hold out the head’, ‘acknowledge one's self guilty’, see śiropasthāyin; instr. with √ grah, √ dhā, √ dhṛ, vi-√ dhṛ, √ bhṛ, √ vah, or √ kṛ, ‘to hold or carry or place on the head, receive deferentially’; instr. with √ gam, abhi-√ gam, pra-√ grah, √ yā, pra-ṇam [√ nam], ni-√ pat, pra-ṇi-√ pat, ‘to touch with the head, bow or fall down before’; loc. with √ kṛ or ni-√ dhā, ‘to place on one's head’; loc. with √ sthā, ‘to be on or stand over a person's head, stand far above [gen.]’), [RV.] &c. &c.
the upper end or highest part of anything, top, peak, summit, pinnacle, acme, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
the forepart or van (of an army), [Śiś.]
the beginning (of a verse), [VarBṛS.]
(ifc.) the head, leader, chief, foremost, first (of a class), [BhP.]
N. of the verse āpo jyotir āpo 'mṛtam, [Baudh.]; [Viṣṇ.] &c.
of a Sāman (also with indrasya), [ĀrṣBr.]; [Lāṭy.]
of a mountain, [Buddh.]
[cf. śīrṣan; Gk. κέρας, κάρη &c.; Lat. cerebrum for ceresrum, cornu; Germ. hirni, Hirn; Eng. horn.]
śirasaशिरस= śiras in sahasra-śirasodara, q.v.
śirasiशिरसिloc. of śiras, in comp.
śiraskāशिरस्काf. a palanquin, [W.]
śiraskaशिरस्क(ifc.; -tva n.) = śiras, [Suśr.]; [VarBṛS.] &c.
mfn. belonging to or being on the head, [MW.]
m. or ([L.]) n. a helmet, [HPariś.]
n. a cap, turban, [W.]
śirasyaशिरस्यNom. P. °yati = śira icchati, [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 61], Sch.
mfn. = śira iva, g. śākhādi
belonging to or being on the head (= śīrṣaṇya), [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 61], Vārtt. 2, [Pat.]
m. ‘the hair of the head’, or ‘clean hair’, [L.]
śirasijaशिरसिजśirasi—ja m. (ifc. f(A). ) ‘produced on the head’, the hair of the head, [Śiś.]; [Kād.]; [Pañcat.]
śirasitaशिरसितmfn. exalted (?), [Divyāv.]
śirassthaशिरस्स्थśiras—stha See śiraḥ-stha.
śirastasशिरस्तस्śiras—tas ind. out of or from or at the head, [GṛS.]; [Kāv.]
śirastraशिरस्त्रśiras—tra n. ‘head-protector’, a helmet, [Ragh.]; [Rājat.] &c., a cap, turban, head-dress, [W.]
śirasiruhशिरसिरुह्śirasi—ruh ([W.]) or śirasi—ruha ([L.]), m. ‘growing on the head’, the hair.
śirasisicशिरसिसिच्śirasi—sic f. a head-cloth, [L.]
śirasnātaशिरस्नातśira—snāta mfn. = śiraḥ-sn°, [MBh.]
śiraspadaशिरस्पदśiras—pada n. the upper part, [Car.]
śirasiruhaशिरसिरुहśirasi—ruh ([W.]) or śirasi—ruha ([L.]), m. ‘growing on the head’, the hair.
śiraskatvaशिरस्कत्वśiraska—tva n.
śirastāpinशिरस्तापिन्śiras—tāpin m. ‘hot in the head’, an elephant, [W.]
śirastrāṇaशिरस्त्राणśiras—trāṇa n. = prec. [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Kāv.]
a skull, [L.]
śirasijapāśaशिरसिजपाशśirasi—ja—pāśa m. a tuft of hair, [Śiś.]