Shiras, Śiras, Siro, Shirash: 26 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchŚiras (शिरस्):—[Uṇādisūtra 4, 193.] n.
1) Kopf, Haupt ( [Amarakoṣa 2, 6, 2, 46.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 566.] [Anekārthasaṃgraha 2, 593.] [Medinīkoṣa 8. 40.] [Halāyudha 2, 363. 5, 13]); das Oberste, Erste (pradhāna [Trikāṇḍaśeṣa 3, 3, 452.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa]); oberes Ende, Spitze [?(Trikāṇḍaśeṣa). Ṛgveda 2, 20, 6. 3, 51, 12. 4, 18, 9. 8, 80, 5. 10, 27, 13. Atharvavedasaṃhitā 6, 49, 2.] atharvaṇaḥ [10, 2, 27.] [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 11, 57.] yajñasya [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 1, 25. 2, 21.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā 2, 5, 11, 7. 6, 3, 5.] rājñām [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 13, 3, 3, 10. 14, 1, 1, 23.] śirasā yūpamujjihīte [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 14, 5, 10.] [ĀŚV. GṚHY. 1, 17, 7.] akṣa [Aśvalāyana’s Śrautasūtrāni 5, 12, 3.] kuśalīkṛta [GṚHY. 1, 19, 10.] ardhaśirasi in der Mitte des Kopfes [4, 8, 15.] sītā [Kauśika’s Sūtra zum Atuarvaveda 20.] valmīka 21. muñja 25. śirasi (der Vedi) gāyatraṃ gāyet [LĀTY. 1, 5, 11. 20.] āhavanīyābhi dessen Kopf dem Āhavanīya zugekehrt ist [ĀŚV. GṚHY. 4, 2, 15.] abhiśirogra [GOBH. 2, 9, 12. -] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 2, 60.] śava [11, 72.] kīṭo pi sumanaḥsaṅgādārohati satāṃ śiraḥ [Spr. (II) 1782.] palita [?3275. fg. Meghadūta 7. Śākuntala 183. Śiśupālavadha 9, 3. Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 5, 4. 50, 11. Vetālapañcaviṃśati in Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 13, 14. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 7, 3.] śiraso sthi [Halāyudha 3, 11.] śirodeśa [2, 112.] unter den sthānāni varṇānām (prātiśrutkāni) [ŚIKṢĀ 13] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 4, 107.] [Taittirīyasaṃhitā Prātiśākhya 2, 3. 23, 10.] praṇipatita [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 43, 60.] saṃdhi [52, 4.] veṣṭita adj. [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 238.] su adj. [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 1, 12.] sapta adj. [4, 33, 41.] dvi adj. [Pañcatantra 251, 24.] sahasra adj. [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 26, 25.] utsaṅge syāḥ śiraḥ kṛtvā [Mahābhārata 1, 1883.] ākṛṣya keśeṣu śiraḥ [Kathāsaritsāgara 18, 174.] nasaṃhatābhyāṃ pāṇibhyāṃ kaṇḍūyedātmanaḥ śiraḥ [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 4, 82.] putradārasya vāpyenaṃ śirāṃsi sparśayet [8, 114.] śiro bhittvā [Weber’s Indische Studien 1, 383.] bhinnaśirodehāḥ (so ed. Bomb.) [Mahābhārata 1, 8319.] śiraśchettuṃ khaḍgena [3, 3046.] śirasaśchedanam [Spr. (II) 3312.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 5, 1.] yena vṛtraśiro hartā [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 6, 9, 53.] ahamapi śiro dadāmi (vgl. śiraḥpradāna) [Vetālapañcaviṃśati] in [Lassen’s Anthologie 33, 1.] na dhārayati yaḥ śiraḥ wer den Kopf nicht halten kann [Suśruta 1, 115, 11.] śiro bahāmi ceṣṭatvāttavāhaṃ deva garvitā ich trage den Kopf hoch, bin stolz [Harivaṃśa 7105.] śirāṃsi garvitānyūhuḥ [8321.] itaro vartayecchiraḥ halte den Kopf hin so v. a. erkläre sich zur Strafe bereit [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 2, 96]; vgl. unter vart caus.
8) und śirovartin. siddhārthāṃśca śirasā dhārayet [Suśruta 1, 71, 17.] śirasā vidhṛtāḥ (keśāḥ, sevakāḥ) [Spr. 2983.] śirasā śilām . bibhrat [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 14, 77. fg.] bhāryāṃ śirasāvahat (akarot v. l.) [Spr. (II) 4239.] tāmājñāṃ śirasā kṛtvā (als Zeichen von Ehrerbietung) [Mahābhārata 4, 1147.] śirobhiste gṛhītvorvīm [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 8, 256.] yāvanna caraṇau bhrātuḥ -śirasā pragrahīṣyāmi [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 99, 7. 101, 15.] śirasā ca mahīṃ yayau [1, 9, 67.] śirasā praṇataḥ [57, 18.] praṇamya śirasā bhūmau [?4, 43, 51. Vetālapañcaviṃśati in Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 1, 2.] nipatya śirasā [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 96, 57.] praṇipatya [Vikramorvaśī 3, 12.] abhivādaye (so ed. Bomb.) tvāṃ śirasā [Mahābhārata 3, 1836.] śirasābhyagamat (abhyanamat [Indralokāgamana 2,
19) 1774.] śirasā yācito mayā [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 101, 13. 4, 9, 6.] pādayoḥ śirasā gataḥ [2, 96, 49.] prahārān -śirasi vivarjayet [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 4, 83.] śirasi oder śirassu kar [Kātyāyana’s Śrautasūtrāṇi 13, 3, 19.] [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 32, 46.] śirasi sthitaḥ (cūḍāmaṇiḥ) [Halāyudha 2, 409.] dāsyaṃ ca śirasi sthitam über Jmdes Kopfe hängend so v. a. nahe bevorstehend [Spr. (II) 2598.] yātanāḥ śirasi sthitāḥ [PAÑCAR. 4, 3, 204.] dhanyānāṃ śirasi sthitāḥ so v. a. hoch über allen Glücklichen stehend [Spr. (II) 5569.] śirogata, śiraḥsthita [ŚIKṢĀ 37] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 4, 108.] śirodharaṇīya [Dhūrtasamāgama 67, 14.] — parvatasya mahacchiraḥ Gipfel [Mahābhārata 4, 830. 8, 4803.] [?ad. Meghadūta 18. Śiśupālavadha 4, 54. Kirātārjunīya 5, 17. Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 9, 39. Lassen’s Anthologie (III) 90, 16. Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 17, 8.] eines Baumes [Amarakoṣa 2, 4, 1, 12.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1121.] [Medinīkoṣa] [Halāyudha 2, 26.] [Rāmāyaṇa 3, 22, 17.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 16, 17.] — nakṣatraśirasi [Harivaṃśa 12239.] [Amarakoṣa 1, 1, 2, 25.] ulkā śirasi viśālā pratanupucchā [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 33, 8.] das obere Ende einer Bettstelle [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 79, 10.] eines Balkens [Pañcatantra ed. orn. 6, 3.] aṅguṣṭha [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 3, 13, 22.] maṅginī [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 878.] sainyaśirasi an der Spitze [Prabodhacandrodaja 85, 19.] raṇaśirasi [Śākuntala 157. 185.] [Spr. (II) 3093.] samaraśirasi [Kathāsaritsāgara 48, 138.] saṃgrāmaśiraso madhye [Mahābhārata 4, 1131. 6, 4041.] = senāgra [Medinīkoṣa] = senāgrabhāga (so ist zu lesen) [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] saraḥśirasi [PAÑCAR. 1, 3, 56.] manovedaśirāṃsi Anfang (eines Liedes, Spruches) [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 46, 73.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 9, 5.] [NṚS. TĀP. Upakośā] in [Weber’s Indische Studien 9, 91.] [WEBER, Rāmatāpanīya Upaniṣad 303.] — sāṃkhya Haupt in übertr. Bed. (= pradhāna Comm.) [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5, 14, 44.] —
2) Name eines Sāman [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa 5, 1, 2.] [LĀṬY. 6, 2, 5. 10, 9, 3.] —
3) Nomen proprium eines Berges [TĀRAN. 3.] — Vgl. a, atharva, ava, avāk (auch [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 3, 249. 8, 94. 11, 73.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 60, 17]), aśva, uccaiḥ, kapāla, kūrca, jānu, tri, daśa, puruṣa, pṛthu, pratyak, bṛhaspati, brahma, bhuja, mahā, mṛga, ratha, vāji, vi, veda, śakra, śaṅkha, śāli, śruti, skandha, śairasi, śīrṣa, śīrṣan und mūrdhan .
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Starts with (+80): Shiracchedana, Shiracchedanaka, Shirahkanduya, Shirahkapalin, Shirahkriya, Shirahpada, Shirahphala, Shirahpida, Shirahpitha, Shirahpradana, Shirahpranama, Shirahpravarana, Shirahprishtha, Shirahpushpa, Shirahshula, Shirahstha, Shirahsthana, Shirahsthita, Shirambhoja, Shirasa.
Ends with (+123): Abhishekardrashiras, Abhishiras, Abhrashiras, Adhahshiras, Adhashshiras, Adhishiras, Ajishiras, Amhrishiras, Anantashiras, Anushtupshiras, Apashiras, Ardhacandrashiras, Ardhashiras, Arkashiras, Ashiras, Ashvashiras, Atharvanashiras, Atharvashiras, Avakashiras, Avakshiras.
Full-text (+596): Shirahpida, Shiroroga, Shirosthi, Shiroruh, Shirahphala, Siroruha, Shirodhi, Shirashcheda, Shirovalli, Shirahpranama, Shirovritta, Shiroveshtana, Shiromarman, Shiroveshta, Shirahpitha, Bhujashiras, Shirastra, Shirashchedana, Ashirahsnana, Catikashiras.
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