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jantu

jantú m. a child, offspring, [RV.]; [Kathās. iic, 58]

a creature, living being, man, person (the sg. also used collectively, e.g. sarva j°, ‘everybody’, [Śak. v, 5/6]; ayaṃ jantuḥ, ‘the man’, [KaṭhUp. ii, 20]; [ŚvetUp. iii, 20]; [Mn. xii, 99]), [RV.]; [Mn.] &c.

a kinsman, servant, [RV. i, 81, 9] and [94, 5]; [x, 140, 4]

any animal of the lowest organisation, worms, insects, [Mn. vi, 68 f.]; [MBh. xiv, 1136]; [Suśr.]

(n.), [HYog. iii, 53] and [Subh.]

a tree, [Gal.]

N. of a son of Somaka, [MBh. iii, 10473 ff.]; [Hariv. 1793]; [BhP. ix, 22, 1]; [Kathās. xiii, 58 ff.]

cf. kṣiti-, kṣudra-, jala-.