महाकपाल

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

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

महाकपाल/ महा--कपाल m. " large-headed " , N. of a राक्षसR.

महाकपाल/ महा--कपाल m. of one of the attendants of शिवL.

Purana Encyclopedia

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

MAHĀKAPĀLA I : A minister of the Rākṣasa Dūṣaṇa. (Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Araṇya Kāṇḍa, 23rd Sarga).


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*17th word in left half of page 462 (+offset) in original book.

MAHĀKAPĀLA II : A Rākṣasa who attacked Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa at Pañcavaṭī. In Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Araṇya Kāṇḍa, 26th Sarga we read that when Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa fought with Khara, Dūṣaṇa and Triśiras there were three terrible Rākṣasas named Mahākapāla, Sthūlākṣa and Pramāthin.


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*18th word in left half of page 462 (+offset) in original book.