Kalayavana, Kālayavana, Kala-yavana, Kalaya-vana: 9 definitions
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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: archive.org: Puranic EncyclopediaKālayavana (कालयवन).—A powerful Asura born out of the effulgence of Gargācārya. He was killed by Śri Kṛṣṇa. (See under Kṛṣṇa).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexKālayavana (कालयवन).—The son of Yavaneśvara, black in colour and hard-hearted; after crowning him king, his father retired to the woods; full of prowess he asked Nārada of some powerful heroes and being told about Yādavas he directed himself towards them with a big army of Mlecchas; Kṛṣṇa met him unarmed and was pursued; seeing him entering a cave where Mucukunda was sleeping, Kāla entered and thinking Mucukunda to be Kṛṣṇa kicked him; on Mucukunda waking up and looking at Kālanemi he was burnt to ashes as there was a vow that he who would awake Mucukunda would meet with such an end.*
- * Bhāgavata-purāṇa X. 50. 44-9; 51. 1-12; Viṣṇu-purāṇa V. 23. 5-8 and 17-23.
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryKālayavana (कालयवन).—a kind of yavanas and enemy of Kṛṣṇa and an invincible foe of the Yādavas. Kṛṣṇa, finding it impossible to vanquish him on the field of battle, cunningly decoyed him to the cave where Muchakunda was sleeping who burnt him down.
Derivable forms: kālayavanaḥ (कालयवनः).
Kālayavana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kāla and yavana (यवन).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryKālayavana (कालयवन).—m.
(-naḥ) An Asura, an enemy of Krishna, destroyed by him by stratagem. E. kāla black, yavan a Yavana.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryKālayavana (कालयवन).—m. the name of a prince of the Yavanas, [Harivaṃśa, (ed. Calc.)] 1961.
Kālayavana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kāla and yavana (यवन).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Kālayavana (कालयवन):—[=kāla-yavana] [from kāla] m. Name of a prince of the Yavanas, [Harivaṃśa; Viṣṇu-purāṇa]
2) [v.s. ...] of a tyrannical Asura (the foe of Kṛṣṇa, destroyed by him by a stratagem), [ib.]
3) [v.s. ...] Name of a Dvīpa, [Daśakumāra-carita]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryKālayavana (कालयवन):—[kāla-yavana] (naḥ) 1. m. An Asura.
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Yavana, Vana, Kalaya, Kala.
Full-text: Yavanari, Mucukunda, Shyala, Asitayavana, Yavanesha, Shaishirayana, Mucakunda, Gargya, Mathura, Dvaraka, Kala.
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Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 6.2.6 < [Chapter 2 - Residence in Śrī Dvārakā]
Verse 1.7.17 < [Chapter 7 - Description of the Conquest of All Directions]
Verse 6.2.20 < [Chapter 2 - Residence in Śrī Dvārakā]
The Padma Purana (by N.A. Deshpande)
Chapter 246 - Jarāsandha Defeated < [Section 6 - Uttara-Khaṇḍa (Concluding Section)]
Chapter 16 - Cakrika’s Story < [Section 7 - Kriyāyogasāra-Khaṇḍa (Section on Essence of Yoga by Works)]
The Vishnu Purana (by Horace Hayman Wilson)
Chapter XXIII - Burning of Yavana king, Kalayavana and praise of Mucukunda to Kansa < [Book V]
Chapter XXIV - Mucukunda departed to Gandhamadana to perform penance < [Book V]
Contents < [Preface]
The Brihaddharma Purana (abridged) (by Syama Charan Banerji)
The Devi Bhagavata Purana (by Swami Vijñanananda)
Chapter 24 - On the stealing away of Pradyūmna < [Book 4]
Chapter 10 - On the phase of Karma < [Book 6]
Chapter 25 - On the Devī’s Highest Supremacy < [Book 4]
Kalayavana < [Fifth Section]
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