Kushanabha, Kuśanābha: 6 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Kuśanābha can be transliterated into English as Kusanabha or Kushanabha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Wisdom Library: Bhagavata PuranaKuśanābha (कुशनाभ):—One of the four sons of Kuśa (son of Ajaka). (see Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.15.4)
Source: archive.org: Puranic EncyclopediaKuśanābha (कुशनाभ).—A son born to Kuśa of Vaidarbhī. (For Genealogy see under Viśvāmitra). Sage Kuśa had four sons, namely Kuśāmba, Kuśanābha, Asūrtarajasa and Vasu, and Kuśanābha built Mahodayapura and lived there. One hundred daughters were born to him of his wife Ghṛtācī. Vāyubhagavān once asked the girls to marry him at which proposal they laughed at him in derision. He cursed them and made them hunch-backed ugly women, and Kuśanābha felt very sorry about this cruel fate of his daughters.
To Somadā, daughter of a Gandharva woman called Ūrmilā, had been born a son, Brahmadatta, due to the mental power of the sage Cūli Kuśanābha gave in marriage his hundred daughters to Brahmadatta, and they were cured of their hunch at the touch of Brahmadatta and became their previous beautiful selves.
Kuśanābha conducted the yajña called Putrakāmeṣṭi, and Kuśa, who was so pleased by the yajña blessed him to have a son called Gādhi. Viśvāmitra was the son of this Gādhi. Viśvāmitra had also a sister Satyavatī, whom Ṛcīka wedded. (Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Bālakāṇḍa, Cantos 32-35).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index1a) Kuśanābha (कुशनाभ).—One of the four sons of Kuśa.*
- * Bhāgavata-purāṇa IX. 15. 4; Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 66. 32; Vāyu-purāṇa 91. 62; Viṣṇu-purāṇa IV. 7. 8.
1b) A son of Vaivasvata Manu.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 11. 41.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryKuśanābha (कुशनाभ):—[=kuśa-nābha] [from kuśa] m. Name of a son of Kuśa, [Harivaṃśa; Rāmāyaṇa; Bhāgavata-purāṇa; Kathāsaritsāgara]
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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: Kusha, Nabha.
Full-text: Ghritaci, Kusha, Gadhi, Asurtarajasa, Kushastamba, Kusamba, Culi, Vishvamitra, Vaidarbhi, Kaushambi, Vasu, Brahmadatta, Girivraja, Kanyakubja.
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Ramayana of Valmiki (by Hari Prasad Shastri)
Chapter 33 - King Kushanabha’s hundred daughters < [Book 1 - Bala-kanda]
Chapter 32 - Vishvamitra tells of his ancestors and the dynasty of King Kusha < [Book 1 - Bala-kanda]
Chapter 34 - Gadhi is the father of Vishvamitra < [Book 1 - Bala-kanda]
Puranic encyclopaedia (by Vettam Mani)
Ramayana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)
Chapter XXXII < [Book 1 - Bāla-kāṇḍa]
Chapter XXXIV < [Book 1 - Bāla-kāṇḍa]
Chapter XXXIII < [Book 1 - Bāla-kāṇḍa]
Historical Elements in the Matsya Purana (by Chaitali Kadia)
Sūrya & Candra dynasty < [Chapter 6 - Human history in the Matsya-Purāṇa]
The Vishnu Purana (by Horace Hayman Wilson)
Chapter VII - Lineage of Puruvasas and Jahnu < [Book IV]
Canto I - Dynasties of the kings < [Book IV]
Harivamsha Purana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)
Chapter 27 - An Account of Ila’s Family < [Book 1 - Harivamsa Parva]