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putra

putrá m. (etym. doubtful, perhaps fr. √ 2. puṣ; traditionally said to be a comp. put-tra, ‘preserving from the hell called Put’, [Mn. ix, 138]) a son, child, [RV.] &c. &c. (also the young of an animal; cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 1, 15], Sch.; ifc. it forms diminutives, cf. dṛṣat-p° and śilā-p°; voc. sg. du. pl. often used to address young persons, ‘my son, my children &c.’; du. ‘two sons’ or ‘a son and a daughter’; cf. [Pāṇ. i, 2, 68])

a species of small venomous animal (= putraka), [Cat.]

(in astrol.) N. of the fifth house, [Var.]

N. of a son of Brahmiṣṭha, [Ragh.]

of a son of Priya-vrata, [VP.] &c. &c.

[cf. Zd. puthra; Gk. παῖς and Lat. puer (?).]