پشو

िपशु paśu, s.m. Cattle, brute, beast, animal (neat-cattle, horses, goats, sheep, asses, and dogs); a young buffalo (local); an animal to be immolated, a victim; a mere animal in sacred things, an uninitiated person; a simpleton, blockhead;—a subordinate deity and one of Śiva's followers;—the soul (according to the tenets of Pāśupatas):—paśu-pāl, paśu-pālak, s.m. Keeper of herds, herdsman, cattle-rearer:—paśu-pālan, s.m. Cattle-rearing, tending cattle:—paśu-pati, s.m. 'Lord of the animals,' or 'lord of a servant named Paśu', an epithet of Śiva;—paśu-pati-nāth, s.m. An epithet of Śivā:—paśa-prāya, adj. Like an animal; brutish; uncivilized:—paśu-palval, s.m. A fragrant grass, Cyperus rotundus (which grows in pools frequented by cattle):—paśu-dharm, s.m. The characteristics of cattle, action or function of animals, treatment of cattle or animals; promiscuous cohabitation; the marrying of widows:—paśu-rāj, s.m. 'Monarch of the beasts,' a lion:—paśu-rajju, s.m. Cord for tethering cattle, tether for animals:—paśuroman, s.m. The hair of an animal:—paśu-kriyā, s.f. The act of animal sacrifice; acting like cattle, copulation:—paśu-gāyatrī, s.f. A parody of the holy verse of the Vedas whispered in the ear of an animal about to be sacrificed:—paśuvat, adj. & adv. Animal-like, brutish, irrational;—like an animal, brutally;—paśuvad-gāmī, vulg. paśu-van-gāmī, adj. Walking like a brute beast:—paśu-harītakī, s.f. The fruit of the Spondias mangifera, the hog-plum.