Dhumaketu, Dhūmaketu, Dhuma-ketu: 21 definitions
Introduction:
Dhumaketu means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
1) Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु) is the name of an Asura king, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 45. Accordingly: “... And then Prahlāda invited, by means of messengers, the chiefs of the Asuras, and they came there in order from all the underworlds. First came King Bali, accompanied by innumerable great Asuras. Close behind him came Amīla and the brave Durāroha and Sumāya, and Tantukaccha, and Vikaṭākṣa and Prakampana, and Dhūmaketu and Mahāmāya, and the other lords of the Asuras; each of these came accompanied by a thousand feudal chiefs. The hall of audience was filled with the heroes, who saluted one another, and after they had sat down in order of rank Prahlāda honoured them all”.
The story of Dhūmaketu was narrated by the Vidyādhara king Vajraprabha to prince Naravāhanadatta in order to relate how “Sūryaprabha, being a man, obtain of old time the sovereignty over the Vidyādharas”.
2) Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु) is the name of a Yakṣa king, and father of Jyotirlekhā and Dhūmalekhā (previously Pathyā and Abalā), according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 73. Accordingly, as Jyotirlekhā, and Dhūmalekhā said to Śrīdarśana: “... his [Kamalagarbha’s] wives too, Pathyā and Abalā, were born as Yakṣa maidens—that is to say, as the two daughters of the king of the Yakṣas named Dhūmaketu—and the name of the one was Jyotirlekhā, and the name of the other Dhūmalekhā”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Dhūmaketu, is a famous Sanskrit epic story revolving around prince Naravāhanadatta and his quest to become the emperor of the vidyādharas (celestial beings). The work is said to have been an adaptation of Guṇāḍhya’s Bṛhatkathā consisting of 100,000 verses, which in turn is part of a larger work containing 700,000 verses.
Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Kalpa (Formulas, Drug prescriptions and other Medicinal preparations)
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु) or Dhūmaketurasa refers to one of the topics discussed in the Madhumatī, a Sanskrit manuscript ascribed to Nṛsiṃha Kavirāja collected in volume 12 of the catalogue “Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (second series)” by Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri.—The Madhumatī manuscript, consisting of 5,586 ślokas (metrical verses), is housed in Dhaka with Babu Bhagavancandra Dasa Kaviraja. It seemingly addresses topics related to Medicinal, Herbal, and Iatrochemical preparations. The catalogue includes the term Dhūmaketu-rasa in its ‘subject-matter list’ or Viṣaya (which lists topics, chapters and technical terms). The complete entry reads—tatra navajvarādhikāre dhūmaketurasavidhānam.
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
General definition (in Hinduism)
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु, ‘smoke-bannered’) is an epithet of Mṛtyu, ‘death’, in the Atharvaveda. Zimmer thinks that a comet is meant, but Whitney considers this extremely improbable. Lanman plausibly suggests that the smoke of the funeral pile is referred to.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Thirteen kappas ago there were eight kings of this name, all previous births of Tivantipupphiya. Ap.i.196.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु) is the name of a Tathāgata (Buddha) mentioned as attending the teachings in the 6th century Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa: one of the largest Kriyā Tantras devoted to Mañjuśrī (the Bodhisattva of wisdom) representing an encyclopedia of knowledge primarily concerned with ritualistic elements in Buddhism. The teachings in this text originate from Mañjuśrī and were taught to and by Buddha Śākyamuni in the presence of a large audience (including Dhūmaketu).
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
dhūmaketu : (m.) a comet; fire.
Dhūmaketu refers to: fire (lit. whose sign is smoke) J.IV, 26; V, 63;
Note: dhūmaketu is a Pali compound consisting of the words dhūma and ketu.
1) dhūmaketu (ဓူမကေတု) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[yadicchā]
[ယဒိစ္ဆာနာမ်]
2) dhūmaketu (ဓူမကေတု) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[dhūma+ketu．dhūmo ketu dhajo yassāti dhūmaketu．,ṭī.34．(dhūmaketu-saṃ,dhūmakeu-prā,addhamāgadī,dhūmaketuva-sī)]
[ဓူမ+ကေတု။ ဓူမော ကေတု ဓဇော ယဿာတိ ဓူမကေတု။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၃၄။ (ဓူမကေတု-သံ၊ ဓူမကေဥ-ပြာ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂဒီ၊ ဓူမကေတုဝ-သီဟိုဠ်)]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) dhūmaketu—
(Burmese text): (၁) မီး၊ ဆီမီး၊ မီးရှူးမီးတိုင်၊ မီးပုံ။ (၂) မီးရောင်ကဲ့သို့ ထွက်ခြင်း၊ ကြယ်တံခွန်လွှတ်ခြင်း၊ ကြယ်ဥက္ကာကျခြင်း။ (၃) ဥပါတ်နိမိတ်ကိတ်ဂြိုဟ်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Fire, oil fire, torch, flame. (2) Emission similar to fire, launching a star rocket, a star falling. (3) The planet of auspicious signs.
2) dhūmaketu—
(Burmese text): ဓူမကေတုမည်သော-စကြာဝတေး-စက္ကဝတ်မင်း။
(Auto-Translation): The celestial body known as the star of the universe is Lord of the Universe.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
dhūmakētu (धूमकेतु).—m (S) A comet. 2 Ketu or the personified descending node.
dhūmakētu (धूमकेतु).—m A comet.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु).—
1) fire; कोपस्य नन्दकुलकाननधूमकेतोः (kopasya nandakulakānanadhūmaketoḥ) Mu.1.1; R.11.81.
2) a meteor, comet, falling star; धूमकेतुमिव किमपि करालम् (dhūmaketumiva kimapi karālam) Gītagovinda 1; धूम- केतुरिवोत्थितः (dhūma- keturivotthitaḥ) Kumārasambhava 2.32.
3) Ketu.
4) a kind of horse; पृष्ठवंशे यदावर्त एकः संपरिलक्ष्यते । धूमकेतुरिति ख्यातः स त्याज्यो दूरतो नृपैः (pṛṣṭhavaṃśe yadāvarta ekaḥ saṃparilakṣyate | dhūmaketuriti khyātaḥ sa tyājyo dūrato nṛpaiḥ) || Aśvachikitsā.
5) Name of the sun; Mb.
Derivable forms: dhūmaketuḥ (धूमकेतुः).
Dhūmaketu is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dhūma and ketu (केतु). See also (synonyms): dhūmaketana.
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु).—m.
(-tuḥ) 1. A comet or falling-star. 2. Fire. 3. The personified descending node. E. dhūma smoke, and ketu a mark or symbol.
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु).—m. 1. fire, Mahābhārata 1, 4162. 2. a meteor, Mahābhārata 6, 80.
Dhūmaketu is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dhūma and ketu (केतु).
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु).—[adjective] whose sign is smoke, marked by smoke; [masculine] fire or a comet, [Epithet] of Agni or the sun, [Name] of a Yakṣa.
1) Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु):—[=dhūma-ketu] [from dhūma > dhū] mfn. (ma-) having sm° as banner or sign (Agni, [Ṛg-veda]; the sun, [Mahābhārata])
2) [v.s. ...] m. fire, [Mahābhārata]
3) [v.s. ...] a comet or falling star, [ib.; Harivaṃśa; Kāvya literature] etc.
4) [v.s. ...] the personified descending node, [Horace H. Wilson]
5) [v.s. ...] Name of the sun, [Mahābhārata]
6) [v.s. ...] of a Yakṣa, [Kathāsaritsāgara] [wrong reading] for dhūmra-k.
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु):—[dhūma-ketu] (tuḥ) 2. m. A comet or falling star; fire; Ketu.
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु):—(dhūma + ketu)
1) adj. Rauch zum Zeichen habend, am Rauch kenntlich (vgl. [Ṛgveda 5, 11, 3]); von Agni [Ṛgveda 1, 27, 11. 44, 3. 94, 10. 10, 4, 5. 12, 2.] harayo dhū.aketavo.vātajūtā.upa.dyavi . yatante.vṛthaga.nayaḥ [8, 43, 4.] dhūmaketurhutāśanaḥ [Mahābhārata 1, 8174.] unter den Beinn. der Sonne [3, 155.] —
2) m. a) Feuer [Amarakoṣa 3, 4, 14, 61.] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha 4, 110.] [Medinīkoṣa t. 201.] prabhāṃ samutsṛjedarko dhūmaketustathoṣmatām (lies: tathoṣṇatām) [Mahābhārata 1, 4162.] — b) Komet [Amarakoṣa] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 126,] [Scholiast] [Hemacandra’s Anekārthasaṃgraha] [Medinīkoṣa] [Kauśika’s Sūtra zum Atuarvaveda 93. 127.] dhūmaketurmahāghoraḥ puṣyaṃ cākramya tiṣṭhati [Mahābhārata 6, 80.] babhāse bhūtāni dhakṣyanniva dhūmaketuḥ [6, 2603.] dhūmaketurivotthitaḥ [Harivaṃśa 13538.] [Mṛcchakaṭikā 152, 18.] [Kumārasaṃbhava 2, 32.] ketunā dhūmaketostu nakṣatrāṇi trayodaśa . bharaṇyādīni bhinnāni nānuyānti niśākaram .. [Harivaṃśa 4259. 9873.] dhūpyamānāṃ graheṇeva rohiṇīṃ dhūmaketunā [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 21, 9.] mūlo mūlavatāmṛkṣo dhūpyate dhūmaketunā [73, 57. 6, 79, 73. 86, 42.] [Varāhamihira’s Bṛhajjātaka S. 11, 9. 96, 3.] mayyeva patito dhūmaketuḥ [Dhūrtasamāgama 76, 1.] [Gītagovinda 1, 14.] kaṃsadhvaṃsanadhūmaketuravatu tvāṃ devakīnandanaḥ [5, 20.] [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 9, 5, 6.] —
3) Nomen proprium eines Sohnes des Kṛśāśva von der Arkis (Flamme; vgl. dhūmrakeśa) [Bhāgavatapurāṇa] in [Viṣṇupurāṇa 123, Nalopākhyāna 26.] des Tṛṇavindu von der Alambuṣā (bei [BURNOUF] dhūmraketu) ebend. [353, Nalopākhyāna 25.]
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Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु):—
3) Nomen proprium eines Yakṣa [Kathāsaritsāgara 73, 422.]
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु):——
1) Adj. Rauch zum Zeichen habend , am Rauche kenntlich. —
2) m. — a) Feuer , der Gott des Feuers [80,15.] [Indische studien von Weber 14,378.] — b) Komet. — c) Beiname der Sonne. — d) Nomen proprium — α) eines Yakṣa. — β) fehlerhaft für dhūmraketu.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Dhūmakētu (ಧೂಮಕೇತು):—
1) [noun] the Fire-God, whose banner is smoke.
2) [noun] a celestial body moving about the sun, in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun; a comet.
3) [noun] (fig.) an inauspicious or all-destroying thing or person.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Dhūmaketu (धूमकेतु):—n. 1. meteor; comet; falling star; 2. fire; 3. Mythol. an epithet of Shiva;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Dhuma, Ketu.
Starts with (+0): Dhumaketurasa.
Full-text (+7): Jvaradhumaketu, Arcis, Dhumaketana, Animana, Dhumaketurasa, Dhumamka, Ketu, Dhumadhvaja, Gutika, Agni, Dhumraketu, Aprakashakagraha, Dhumrakesha, Jyotirlekha, Dhumalekha, Cula, Anudvara, Kanakabha, Hrishtaroman, Tantukaccha.
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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
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Phaladeepika by Mantreswara (text and translation) (by Panditabhushana V. Subrahmanya Sastri)
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Iatrochemistry (by Bhudeb Mookerjee)
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Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)
Part 10: Kidnaping of Pradyumna < [Chapter VI - Marriage of Kṛṣṇa with Rukmiṇī and others]
Part 11: Origin of Dhūmaketu’s enmity < [Chapter VI - Marriage of Kṛṣṇa with Rukmiṇī and others]
Part 8: Story of Kulabhūṣaṇa and Deśabhūṣaṇa < [Chapter V - The kidnapping of Sītā]
Ramayana of Valmiki (Shastri) (by Hari Prasad Shastri)
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