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खट्वांग (khaTvAMga)

 
L R Vaidya
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KawvA-aMga {% m. %} 1. a club or staff with a skull at the top considered as the weapon of Śiva and carried by ascetics and yogins, M.M.v.
2. a name of Dilīpa.
पुराणम्
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खट्वांग / KHAṬVĀṄGA .1) General Information. A King of the ikṣvāku dynasty, known by the name dilīpa also. bhāgavata skandha 9, states that khaṭvāṅga was the son of the grandson of kalmāṣapāda. aśmaka was the son of kalmāṣapāda, mūlaka the son of aśmaka and khaṭvāṅga the son of mūlaka.
khaṭvāṅga who was a royal hermit once pleased God and understood how long he would live. From that day onwards he left all the work of administration in the hands of ministers and spent the remaining days in devotion and meditation. (bhāgavata, skandha 2).2) Particular details. In mahābhārata it is mentioned that khaṭvāṅga was the son of the woman called ilibilā and that he had the name dilīpa also. khaṭvāṅga was one of the sixteen famous Kings of bhārata. The sixteen Kings were marutta, suhotra, paurava, śibi, śrī rāma, bhagīratha, khaṭvāṅga, (dilīpa) māndhātā, yayāti, ambarīṣa, śaśabindu, gaya, rantideva, bharata, pṛthu and paraśurāma. khaṭvāṅga performed one hundred sacrifices. At the time of sacrifice he made golden roads. Even indra came to the sacrifice. The devas blessed khaṭvāṅga on that day. See under dilīpa. (M.B. droṇa parva, Chapter 61).