Siras
Si/ras n. ( prob. originally Saras = karas ; and connected with karaNka , q.v. ) the head, skull ( acc. with √ dA , ‘to give up one's head i.e. life’; with √ Df , or √ vah , ‘to hold up one's head, be proud’; with Caus. of √ vft or with upa-√ sTA , ‘to hold out the head’, ‘acknowledge one's self guilty’, see Siro pasTAyin ; instr. with √ grah , √ DA , √ Df , vi-√ Df , √ Bf , √ vah , or √ kf , ‘to hold or carry or place on the head, receive deferentially’; instr. with √ gam , aBi-√ gam , pra-√ grah , √ yA , pra-Ram [√ nam ], ni-√ pat , pra-Ri-√ pat , ‘to touch with the head, bow or fall down before’; loc. with √ kf or ni-√ DA , ‘to place on one's head’; loc. with √ sTA , ‘to be on or stand over a person's head, stand far above [ gen. ]’), RV. &c. &c.