अधिरथ

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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अधिरथः, पुं, (रथमधिरूढः अत्यादीति समासः ।) कर्णपिता । स तु सूतजातिः । तस्य कर्म्म सारथ्यं । यथा । विवेशाधिरथो रङ्गं यष्टिप्राणो ह्वयन्निव । इति महाभारतं ॥ (यथा हरिवंशे । “सत्यकर्म्मसुतश्चापि सूतस्त्वधिरथस्तु वै । यः कर्णं प्रतिजग्राह तेन कर्णस्तु सूतजः” ॥)

वाचस्पत्यम्

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अधिरथ¦ अध्यारूढः रथं रथिनम् अत्या॰ स॰। अतिरथे। कर्णपितरि पु॰।
“विवेशाधिरथोरङ्गं यष्टिप्राणो ह्वयन्नि-वेति” भा॰ आदि॰। तस्यापत्यम् इञ्। आधिरथिःकर्णे पु॰। कर्णपर्वणि भूरिप्रयोगोऽस्य।

शब्दसागरः

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अधिरथ¦ m. (-थः) A charioteer. E. अधि, and रथ a car.

Apte

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अधिरथ [adhiratha], [अध्यारूढो रथं रथिनं वा] Being on or over a car.

थः A charioteer, driver.

N. of a charioteer who was king of Aṅga and foster-father of Karṇa.-थम् Ved. A cart-load.

Monier-Williams

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

अधिरथ/ अधि-रथ mfn. being upon or over a car

अधिरथ/ अधि-रथ m. a charioteer

अधिरथ/ अधि-रथ m. N. of a charioteer who was a prince of अङ्गand कर्ण's foster-father

अधिरथ/ अधि-रथ n. a cart-load RV.

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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

--the son of Satkarman (Satyakarman-म्।). Once playing on the banks of the Ganges, he found a male child in a box. It was born of Kunti and abandoned by her. Childless, he brought him up as his son; फलकम्:F1: भा. IX. २३. १२-13.फलकम्:/F also known as सूत. फलकम्:F2: M. ४८. १०८.फलकम्:/F [page१-047+ २६]

Purana Encyclopedia

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

ADHIRATHA : Foster father of Karṇa.

1) Lineage. Descended from Viṣṇu thus: Brahmā-Atri- Candra-Purūravas-Āyus-Nahuṣa-Yayāti-Anudruhyu- Sadānara-Kālanara-Sṛñjaya-Titikṣa-Kṛśadratha-Homa- Sutapas-Bali-Aṅga-Dadhivāhana-Draviratha- Dharmaratha-Citraratha-Satyaratha-Romapāda- Caturaṅga-Pṛthu-Camba-Haryaṁga-Bhadraratha- Bṛhadratha-Bṛhanmanas-Jayadratha-Dhṛtavṛta-Satya- karmā-Adhiratha-Karṇa (foster son).

2) Foster father of Karṇa. Sage Durvāsas had taught Kuntī some mantras to get children, and Kuntī, then unmarried, tested the first mantra with the Sun-god as her object. The Sun-god appeared before Kuntī and from his power she conceived and duly delivered a child, Karṇa. Fearing obloquy Kuntī concealed the child in a box and floated it on the river, Ganges. At the time Adhiratha, a great comrade of Dhṛtarāṣṭra came to the river for a bath. His wife was one grieving over not having a child of her own. So, when Adhiratha found a child in the floating box, he took it home, and himself and his wife Rādhā brought up the child with pleasure. The child was named Vasusena, and the child grew up to become the famous Karṇa and favourite friend of Duryodhana. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapters 67 and 130; Vana Parva, Chapter 309; Devībhāgavata, Skandha 2).

3) Some particulars. Adhiratha was King of Aṅga. He was a Sūta (charioteer) and Karṇa grew up as his son. Karṇa was sent to Hastināpura to be trained in the uṣe of weapons, and it was here that Duryo- dhana and Karṇa developed their friendship and alliance. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 147, Verse 3). Śrī Mahādevībhāgavata, in Chapter 3 relates the following incident: “Thus lamenting Kuntī sent the box concealing Karṇa, by the nurse, to be floated in the river, and after bath, food etc. she spent the hours in the normal way within the inner apartment. Rājā Adhiratha bathing in the river saw the box floating in the river”. These facts prove that Adhiratha was not only the King of Aṅga but a good charioteer as well, and further a very good friend of Dhṛtarāṣṭra.

4) We come across Adhiratha on the occasion of the trial of skill in the use of arms between the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas. When Karṇa entered the lists the Pāṇḍavas questioned his nobility of birth. Seeing Karṇa's great humiliation and discomfiture Duryodhana enthroned him immediately as King of Aṅga. Vyāsa, who witnessed the scene has given a picturesque des- cription of it.


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