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कुशध्वज (kuzadhvaja)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कुश—ध्वज
m.
N.
 of a prince (a son of Hrasva-roman),
R.
BrahmaP.
(a grandson of Hrasva-roman),
BhP.
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
कुशध्वज
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प्रयोगाः - > "तस्य पुत्रद्वयं जज्ञे धर्मज्ञस्य महात्मनः । ज्येष्ठोऽहं मनुजो वीरो मम भ्राता कुशध्वजः ॥"
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पुराणम्
English
कुशध्वज १ / KUŚADHVAJA I. A brahmin, son of bṛhaspati. Penniless and poor, the brahmin once sought the help of King sālva. The miserly king did not give him anything. Thereafter he began worshipping bhagavatī with the object of making some money. While meditating upon bhagavatī a girl emerged out of his mouth. She was named devavatī. When she came of age an asura called śambhu desired to marry her
but kuśadhvaja did not agree to the proposal. Enraged at the refusal śambhu killed kuśadhvaja while the latter was asleep one night. But devavatī cursed and reduced the asura into ashes. Then she took herself to penance to secure Mahāviṣṇu as her husband when rāvaṇa happened to come there, and he tried to make her his wife. But, she repelled all his attempts at which he caught hold of her by the hair. She escaped by cutting her hair. She then immolated herself in burning fire. It was this devavatī, who was, in her next life, born as sītā, daughter of King janaka (uttara rāmāyaṇa).
कुशध्वज २ / KUŚADHVAJA II. Brother of King janaka, father of sītā. He lived on the banks of the river ikṣumatī. (vālmīki rāmāyaṇa, Bālakāṇḍa, Canto 70). See under janaka I.
कुशध्वज ३ / KUŚADHVAJA III. A King. The following story about him is quoted from the skanda purāṇa.
kuśadhvaja was a monkey in his former birth, and as he had then performed the auspicious action of swinging śiva in a cradle throughout day and night, in the next birth he was born as King kuśadhvaja. One day the King abducted the daughter of the Sage agniveśa when she was bathing. The Sage cursed the King into the form of a vulture. He was promised redemption from the curse that he would regain his human form on the day on which he helped indradyumna.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
कुशध्वज
पु०
 जनकस्य नृपस्यानुजे भ्रातरि । “तस्य पुत्रद्वयंजज्ञे धर्म्मज्ञस्य महात्मनः । ज्येष्ठोऽहमनुजोवीरोममभ्राता कुशध्वजः” रामा० आ० का० ७१ स० “जन-कोक्तिः । तस्य राज्यञ्च साङ्काश्यनगरआसीत् यथोक्तंतत्रैव “साङ्काश्ये भ्रातरं शूरमभ्यषिञ्चं कुशध्वजम्” ।“भ्राता यवीयान् धर्म्मज्ञ ऐषराजा कुशध्वजः” सचभरतशत्रुघ्नयोः श्वशुरः तत्कथा तत्रैव ७२ सर्गे दृश्यां“निमिवंशज जनकस्यात्मजे नृपभेदे “स्वर्ण्णरोमा सुतस्तस्यह्रस्वरोमा व्यजायत । ततः सीरध्वजोजज्ञे यज्ञार्थंकर्षतो महीम् । सीता सीराग्रतोजाता यस्मात्सीरध्वजः स्मृतः । कुशध्वजस्तस्य पुत्रस्ततो धर्म्मध्वजोनृपः” इति भाग० ९ । १३ । १२ । अनयोर्विरोधः कल्प-भेदात् समाधेयः “पार्थिवीमुद्वहद्रघूद्वहो लक्ष्मण-स्तदनुजामथोर्म्मिलाम् । यौ तयोरवरजौ वरौजसौ तौकुशध्वजसुते सुमध्यमे” रघुः