Shatadhanu, Śatadhanu: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śatadhanu can be transliterated into English as Satadhanu or Shatadhanu, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index1a) Śatadhanu (शतधनु).—A son of Hṛdīka.*
- * Bhāgavata-purāṇa IX. 24. 27; Viṣṇu-purāṇa IV. 14. 24.
1b) A son of Devavarman Maurya.*
- * Brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa III. 74. 148.
1c) A king of yore; his wife Śaivyā, a woman of piety; both worshipped Janārdhana; after fasting on the Kārttika full moon day and bath in the Bhāgīrathī, they met a heretic, a friend of the king's military preceptor; he talked to him but she looked at the sun; soon the king died and she ascended the funeral pyre; for the sin of talking to a heretic he was born as a dog in Vidiśa and his wife as a daughter of the king of Kāśī; she had a knowledge of her former birth and accepted the dog for her husband; when the dog remembered his former condition, he fell dead in a forest and was born as a jackal in the Kolāhala hill; the daughter of the king of Kāśī repaired to the mountain when he remembered his previous birth and was born as a wolf; again the daughter of the king of Kāśī met him; remembering his former state he was born as a vulture, crow and a peacock; when she bathed him during the sacrificial bath of Janaka he was born as the son of Janaka. Then a svayamvara was held, she married him, lived as his queen and attained heaven. See Śaivyā.*
- * Viṣṇu-purāṇa III. 18. 53-95.
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.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryŚatadhanu (शतधनु).—name of an ancient king: Mahāvastu ii.146.19.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚatadhanu (शतधनु):—[=śata-dhanu] [from śata] ([Bhāgavata-purāṇa]) ([Purāṇa; Pāṇini [Scholiast or Commentator]]) m. Name of various men.
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: Dhanu, Shata, Tanu.
Starts with: Shatadhanus.
Full-text: Shatadhanus, Mithilavana, Devabahu, Shatadhanvan.
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