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गुणनिधि (guNanidhi)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
गुण—निधि
m.
 ‘treasury of good qualities’, an excellent man
N.
 of a man,
SkandaP.
Macdonell
English
गुणनिधि guṇa-nidhi,
m.
 treasury of virtue, 🞄very virtuous man
-badda, pp. bound with 🞄ropes and captivated by virtues
-bhadra,
m.
 🞄N. of an author
-bhāj,
a.
 possessing merits
🞄-bhūta, pp. subordinate, dependent, secondary
🞄-maya,
a.
 consisting of treads, fibrous
virtuous
🞄based on the fundamental qualities.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
गुणनिधिः
पुं*
 गुण-निधिः -
गुणों का भंडार
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
गुणनिधि
पदविभागः - > विशेष्यनिघ्नम्
कन्नडार्थः - > ಗುಣಗಳಿಗೆ ಆಶ್ರಯಸ್ಥಾನವಾದ /ಗುಣಗಳಿಗೆ ಆಧಾರವಾದ
निष्पत्तिः - > नि + डुधाञ् (धारणपोषणयोः) - "किः" (३-३-९२)
व्युत्पत्तिः - > गुणा नीधीयन्तेऽस्मिन्
L R Vaidya
English
guRa-niDi {% m. %} store of virtues.
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
गुणनिधि son of Śrīnivāsa:
Paramātmavinoda alaṃk. W. 1724.
He wrote besides:
Annapūrṇāstuti.
Īśatuṣṭistuti.
Gaṇapatistuti.
Bhagavatīstuti.
Viṣṇustuti.
Vyāsastuti.
Śivaśikhariṇīstuti.
गुणनिधि wrote besides Revāstuti, Śivapraṇāmaśikṣāstuti,
Sūryastuti.
Tamil
Tamil
கு3ணநிதி4 : குணங்களின் இருப்பிடம்.
கு3ணநிதி4 : குணங்களின் இருப்பிடம்.
पुराणम्
English
गुणनिधि / GUṆANIDHI. A Purāṇic character who lived a sinful life and yet attained Svarga. In the country of kosala there was once a noble brahmin named Girinātha who was rich, erudite and well-versed in the Vedas. Considering his greatness people called him girināthadīkṣita. guṇanidhi was his son.
When guṇanidhi grew up he started his education under a preceptor called Sudhiṣṇa. Sudhiṣṇa had a wife named Muktāvalī. After some time guṇanidhi started having clandestine relations with Muktāvalī. This developed so much that guṇanidhi gave poison to his guru and killed him. His parents came to know of this and they came and reprimanded him. Evilnatured guṇanidhi thought that the presence of his parents would be an annoyance to him in future. So guṇanidhi and Muktāvalī planned together to kill his parents and one day they poisoned them.
After some time guṇanidhi and his wife lost all they had and gradually guṇanidhi turned himself into a thief and drunkard. Nobody in the village liked the couple and all the villagers combined together and sent the couple away from the place. guṇanidhi and Muktāvalī went to the forests and there they started a life of looting the travellers. After some years of a sinful life guṇanidhi one day died lying beneath a rudrākṣa tree. Servants of both yama and śiva came to claim the soul of guṇanidhi. The servants of yama said that the right place of guṇanidhi the sinner, was in hell but the servants of śiva said that even if he was a great sinner his place was in heaven because he died lying beneath a rudrākṣa tree. In the end the Śivadūtas won and took guṇanidhi to heaven.
This story was once told by śiva himself to demonstrate the glory of rudrākṣa. (skandha 11, devī bhāgavata)
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
गुणनिधि
पु०
 गुणानिधीयन्ते अस्मिन् नि + धा--आधारे कि६ त० । १ गुणाधारे कम्पिल्लनगरवासियज्ञदत्तदीक्षितद्विज-पुत्रे “आसीत् काम्पिल्लनगरे सोमराजिकुलोद्भवः ।दीक्षितो यज्ञदत्ताख्यो यज्ञविद्याविशारदः । तस्य पुत्रोगुणनिधिश्चन्द्रविम्बसमाकृतिः” काशी० १३ अ० । स चा-त्यन्तद्यूताद्यासङ्गेन दुर्वृत्ततया पित्रा त्यक्तः इतस्ततोऽटन्अन्नालाभेन शिवचतुर्दश्यामुपोष्य रात्रौ शैवकृतशिवलिङ्गा-र्चनादिकं दृष्ट्वा सुप्तेषु तदर्चकेषु शिवनिर्माल्यहरणायोपचक्राम तत्र काले च शिवगृहे पूर्वप्रज्वलितप्रदीपे निर्वा-णपायतां प्राप्ते अपहर्त्तव्यद्रव्य सम्यग् दर्शनार्थं स्ववस्त्र-खण्डेन तस्य दीपस्योद्दीपनं कृत्वा शिवनैवेद्यान्नं हर्त्तुमारेभे अस्मिन्नेव काले शिवोपासकानां निद्रापगमे-तैस्ताड्यमानो गुणनिधिर्मृतः तत्र प्रसङ्गेन शिवरात्रि-दिनोपवासजेन शिर्वार्चादर्शनजेन शिवगृहदीपोद्दीपनजेनच पुण्येन कैलासं जगाम भोगावसाने कलिङ्गदेशाधिपत्यंलेभे पूर्वसंस्कारवशात् शिवभक्तेः प्रादुर्भावे शिवाराधनेणकुवेरपदवीं प्राण इति तत्रत्यकथासंक्षेपः । विस्वरस्तुतत्र दृश्यः ।