putraH 1 A son; (the word is thus derived: - punnAmno narakAdyasmAttrAyate pitaraM sutaH . tasmAtputra iti proktaH svayameva svayaMBuvA .. Ms. 9. 138 ; the word, therefore, should be strictly written puttraH ) ( pb ) 2 A child, the young one of an animal. 3 A dear child (a term of endearment in addressing young persons). 4 (At the end of comp. ) Anything little or small of its kind; as in asiputraH, SilAputraH &c. — trO ( du. ) A son and daughter. Comp. — annAdaH 1 one who lives at a son's expense, one who is maintained by his son. 2 a mendicant of a particular order; see kuwIcaka . — arTin a. wishing for a son. — AcArya a. one having a son for his teacher. — AdinI 1 an unnatural mother. 2 a tigress. — izwiH, -izwikA f. a sacrifice performed to obtain male issue. — karman n. a ceremony on the birth of a son. — kAma a. desirous of sons. — kAmyA a wish for sons; R. 1. 35. — kAryaM a ceremony relating to a son. — kft m. an adopted son. — kftakaH one who is adopted as a son, an adopted son; SyAmAkamuzwiparivarDitako jahAta soyaM na putrakftakaH padavIM mfgaste Ś. 4. 13. — jagDI ad unnatural mother (who eats her own children). — jAta a. one to whom a son is born. — dAraM son and wife. — DarmaH filial duty. — pOtraM — trAH sons and grandsons. — pOtrIRa a. transmitted from son to son, hereditary; Bk. 5. 15. — pratiniDiH a substitute for a son ( e. g. an adopted son). — lABaH obtaining a son. — vaDUH f. a daughter-in-law. — saKaH ‘a friend of children’, one who is fond of children. — hIna a. sonless, childless. — saMkarin a. mixing or confusing sons by mixed marriages. — hataH an epithet of Vasiṣṭha (whose hundred sons were killed). — (tI) an unnatural mother.