सुदेष्णा

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

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

सुदेष्णा/ सु--देष्णा f. N. of the wife of बलिMBh.

सुदेष्णा/ सु--देष्णा f. of the wife of विराटib.

Purana index

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

--the queen of Bali Vairocana, son of Sutapa; issueless Bali advised her to have intercourse with sage Dirghatamas; finding him old and blind she sent her slave girl (Nurse-वा। प्।) to whom were born कक्षीवान् and चक्षुष; the king found this out and persuaded the queen and sage once again; the sage agreed on condition that she [page३-626+ ३३] smeared all his body with curds and salt and licked the whole of it; she did so omitting the bottom portion; the sage cursed that her first son would be without buttocks; on her request he agreed that her first grandson would be born like that and not her son; she got five sons, Anga, Vanga, etc. Br. III. ७४. ३४-88; M. ४८. ६१-79; वा. ९९. ३४, ६८-86.

Purana Encyclopedia

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

SUDEṢṆĀ I : The wife of Virāṭa, the King of Matsya.

1) General information. It is mentioned in Mahābhā- rata, Virāṭa Parva, Chapter 9, Verse 6, that this Sudeṣṇā, the daughter of the King of Kekaya, had the name Citrā also.

2) Other details.

(i) During the pseudonymity, Pāñcālī lived with Sudeṣṇā in the guise of Sairandhrī. (M.B. Virāṭa Parva, Chapter 9).

(ii) Sudeṣṇā agreed to the request of Kīcaka to get Sairandhrī for him, as he was fascinated by her beauty. (M.B. Virāṭa Parva, Chapter 14, Verse 6).

(iii) Sudeṣṇā sent Kīcaka to the house of Sairandhrī. (M.B. Virāṭa Parva, Chapter 15).

(iv) Draupadī consoled Sudeṣṇā who was miserable at the death of Kīcaka. (M.B. Virāṭa Parva, Chapter 16, Verse 48).

(v) Sudeṣṇā asked Draupadī to go away from the palace. (M.B. Virāṭa Parva, Chapter 24, Verse 3).

(vi) In connection with the marriage of her daughter Uttarā, Sudeṣṇā went to Upaplavya with Draupadī. (M.B. Virāṭa Parva, Chapter 72, Verse 30).


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SUDEṢṆĀ II : The wife of the King Bali. Five sons named Aṅga, Vaṅga, Kaliṅga, Puṇḍra and Suhma were born to the hermit Dīrghatamas by this queen Sudeṣṇā. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 98: 30; Bhāgavata, Skandha 9; Harivaṁśa 1, 39).


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