रुशमा

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

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

रुशमा f. N. of a woman (said to have contended with इन्द्रas to which of the two would run fastest round the earth , and to have won by the artifice of only going round कुरु-क्षेत्र) Pan5cavBr.

Purana Encyclopedia

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

RUŚAMĀ : A Priest who had studied the Vedas well. A story occurs in the ‘Pañcaviṁśabrāhmaṇa’, about this priest. Once Indra and Ruśamā bet on going round the world. Both got ready and started. But Ruśamā walked round Kurukṣetra and returned, while Indra travelled the whole of the way round the world and kept the conditions. The question arose as to who won the bet. The devas gave the decision, “Kurukṣetra is the dais of Brahmā, and so Kurukṣetra contains the entire world. Therefore both Indra and Ruśamā were declared to have won the bet.”


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*6th word in left half of page 658 (+offset) in original book.

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

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

Ruśamā is mentioned in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa (xxv. 13, 3), where she is said to have run round Kurukṣetra, and so to have defeated Indra, who understood her challenge to refer to the earth proper. The story indicates the connexion of the Ruśamas with the Kurus.
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