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paśu

ind. see, behold! [L.]


paśú or páśu, m. (instr. paśúnā or °śva; dat. páśve or paśáve; gen. paśvás or °śos; du. paśvā́; acc. pl. paśvás or °śū́n) cattle, kine (orig. ‘any tethered animal’; singly or collect. ‘a herd’), a domestic or sacrificial animal (as opp. to mṛga, ‘wild animal’; 5 kinds are enumerated, ‘men, kine, horses, goats and sheep’ [[AV. xi, 2, 9] &c.], to which are sometimes added mules and asses [[MBh. vi, 155] &c.] or camels and dogs [[AV. iii, 10, 6] Comm.]), [RV.] &c. &c.


any animal or brute or beast (also applied contemptuously to a man; cf. nara-p° and nṛ-p°)


a mere animal in sacred things i.e. an uninitiated person, [Cat.]


an animal sacrifice, [AitĀr.]; [BhP.]


flesh, [RV. i, 166, 6] an ass, [L.]


a goat, [L.]


a subordinate deity and one of Śiva's followers, [L.]


(with Māheśvaras and Pāśupatas) the individual soul as distinct from the divine Soul of the universe, [RTL. 89]


Ficus Glomerata, [L.]


(pl.) N. of a people, [MBh.] (v.l. patti)


páśu cattle (only as acc. before manyate [[VS. xxiii, 30]] and manyamāna [[RV. iii, 53, 23]]; and pl. paśūni, [R.]; [Kathās.])


[cf. Zd. pasu; Lat. pecu; Old Pruss. pecku; Goth. faíhu; Germ. fihu, vihe, Vieh; Angl.Sax. feoh; Eng. fee.]