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आसुरि (Asuri)

 
Apte
English
आसुरिः [āsuriḥ], A pupil of Kapila. मुनिरासुरये$नुकम्पया प्रददौ Sāṅ.
K.*
 7. -कल्पः
N.
 of a Kalpa.
Apte 1890
English
आसुरिः A pupil of Kapila.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
आ॑सुरि
m.
 [f(ई). ,
L.
 ], (fr. असुर),
N.
 of a teacher,
ŚBr.
BṛĀrUp.
&c.
Monier Williams 1872
English
आसुरि, इस्, m. (patron. fr. असुर), N. of a teacher.
—आसुरि-वािन्, ई, m. an epithet of Prāśnīputra.
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
आसुरि Quoted in Ṣaḍdarśanavṛtti. Hall p. 166.
Mahabharata
English
Āsuri. § 668b (Pañcaśikhavākya): XII, 218, 7890 (Āºeḥ prathamaṃ śishyaṃ i.e. Pañcaśikha), 7893, 7894 (his wife was Kapilā).--§ 707 (Mokshadh.): XII, 319, 11784.
पुराणम्
English
आसुरि / ĀSURI. An ancient Maharṣi. He was the ācārya of kapila Sāṁkhyadarśana and the guru of the maharṣi pañcaśikha. Once āsuri had a full vision of God. He gave many precepts on spiritual matters to other Maharṣis. The bhāgavata says that āsuri received his spiritual enlightenment from his wife, kapilā. (M.B., śānti Parva, Chapter 218, Verses 10-14).
Vedic Reference
English
Āsuri occurs in the first two Vaṃśas^1 (lists of teachers) of
the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad as a pupil of Bhāradvāja and
teacher of Aupajandhani, but in the third^2 as a pupil of
Yājñavalkya and teacher of Āsurāyaṇa. He appears as a
ritual authority in the first four books of the Śatapatha Brāh-
maṇa, ^3 and as an authority on dogmatic, specially noted for his
insistence on truth, in the last book.^4
1) ii. 6, 3
iv. 6, 3.
2) vi. 5, 2.
3) i. 6, 3, 26
ii. 1, 4, 27
3, 1, 9
4, 1, 2
6, 1, 25. 33
3, 17
iv. 5, 8,
14.
4) xiv. 1, 1, 33, and notes 1, 2.
Cf. Weber, Indische Studien, 1, 430
et seq., whose suggestion of the identity
of this teacher and the founder of the
Sāṃkhya system is not, however, ac-
ceptable. See Garbe, Sāṃkhya Philo-
sophie, 29, 30.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
आसुरि
पु०
 तत्त्वज्ञानोपदेशेन अस्यति संसारम् अस-उरच् असुरः कपिलस्तस्य छात्रः इज् । साङ्ख्ययो-गाचार्य्ये कपिलशिष्ये ऋषिभेदे । “एतत्पवित्रमग्य्रं मुनि-रासुरयेऽनुकम्प्रया प्रददौ । आसुरिरपि पञ्चशिखाय तेनबहुधा कृतं तन्त्रम्” सा० का० । सएव प्रत्यहं तर्पणी-यर्षिगणे पठितः । “सनकश्च सनन्दश्च तृतीयश्च सनातनः ।कपिलश्चासूरिश्चैव वोढुः पञ्चशिखस्तथेति “तर्पणे स्मृतिः ।युवापत्ये तु फक् तस्य तौल्व० न लुक् । आसुरिः तत्पुत्रःआसुरायणः तत्पौत्रः स च यजुर्वेदसंप्रदायप्रवर्त्तकःआसुरायणशब्दे उदा० ।