SiSuH [ So-ku sanvadBAvaH dvitvam ; cf. Uṇ. 1. 20 ] 1 A child, an infant; SiSurvA SizyA vA U. 4. 11. 2 The young of any animal (as a calf, puppy, fawn &c.); Ś. 1. 15 ; 7. 14 , 18. 3 A boy under eight or sixteen years of age. 4 A pupil, scholar. Comp. — kraMdaH, -kraMdanaM the cry or weeping of a child. — kraMdIyaH ( i. e. graTaH ) a work treating of the complaints of children. — gaMDA a kind of jasmine (double jasmine). — cAdrAyaRaM a lunar penance of children; ( caturaH prAtaraSnIyIMtpaqAn vipraH samAhitaH . caturo' stamite sUrye SiSucAMdrAyaRaM smftaM .. Ms. 11. 220 ). — nAgaH a young elephant. — pAlaH N. of a king of the Cedis and son of Damaghoṣa. [According to the Viṣṇu Purāṇa this monarch was, in a previous existence, the unrighteous Hiraṇyakaśipu, king of the Asuras who was killed by Viṣṇu in the form of Narasiṃha. He was next born as the ten-he added Rāvaṇa who was killed by Rāma. Then he was born as the son of Damaghoṣa, and continued his enmity to Kṛṣṇa, the eighth incarnation of Viṣṇu, with even greater implacability; (see Śi. 1. ) He denounced Kṛṣṇa when they met at the Rajasuya sacrifice of Yudhiṣṭhira, but his head was cut off by Kṛṣṇa with his discus. His death forms the subject of a celebrated poem by Māgha]. °han m. an epithet of Kṛṣṇa. — mAraH the Gangetic porpoise. °Sirasu n. the northeast quarter. — vAhakaH , vAhyakaH a wild goat. — hatyA childmurder, infanticide.