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निमि (nimi)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
निमि
m.
 (-मिः)
1. Twinkling.
2. A son of IKSHWAKU condemned to
reside in the twinkle of the eye.
Capeller Eng
English
निमि
m.
N.
 of
sev.
 kings.
Yates
English
निमि (मिः) 2.
m.
 Son of
Ikshwāku.
Spoken Sanskrit
English
निमि - nimi -
m.
 - closing or winking of the eyes
निमि - nimi -
m.
 - twinkling
Wilson
English
निमि
m.
 (-मिः) A son of IKṢVĀKU, condemned to reside in the twinkle
of the eye.
Apte
English
निमिः [nimiḥ], 1 Winking, twinkling (of the eyes).
N.
 of one of the descendants of Ikṣvāku, and ancestor of the line of kings who ruled in Mithilā.
Apte 1890
English
निमिः 1 Winking, twinkling (of the eyes).
2 N. of one of the descendants of Ikṣvāku, and ancestor of the line of kings who ruled in Mithilā.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
1. निमि
m.
N.
 of sev. kings of Videha,
Mn.
MBh.
&c.
of a son of Dattátreya,
MBh.
of a son of Ikṣvāku,
Pur.
 (having lost his body through the curse of Vasiṣṭha he occupied the eyes of all living beings, hence the opening and shutting of men's eyelids
cf.
 नि-मिष and See
VP.
 iv, 5)
of 21st Jaina Arhat of present Ava-sarpiṇī (identified with the former Nimi),
L.
of a son of Bhajamāna,
VP.
of a son of Daṇḍa-pāṇi,
BhP.
of a Dānava,
Hariv.
 (v.l. डिम्भ)
the closing or winking of the eyes, twinkling,
BhP.
 ix, 24, 64.
N.
 of a Tathāgata,
Sukh.
 i.
2. नि-√ 1. मि
P.
 -मिनोति (pf. -मिमा॑य
Pass.
 -मीयते), to fix or dig in, erect, raise,
RV.
AV.
Br.
&c.
to perceive, notice, understand (?),
AV.
 iv, 16, 5.
Monier Williams 1872
English
निमि 1. निमि, इस्, m., N. of several kings of
Videha
of a son of Dattātreya
of a son of Ikṣvāku,
(this Nimi lost his body through the curse of
Vaśiṣṭha, and when the gods were willing to restore
it, requested that instead of receiving his former
shape he might occupy the eyes of all living creatures
the request was granted, and in consequence of the
presence of Nimi, men's eyelids are ever opening
and shutting
cf. नि-मिष, and see Viṣṇu-Purāṇa
IV. 5)
N. of the twenty-first Jaina Arhat of the
present Ava-sarpiṇī
of a son of Bhajamāna
of
Daṇḍa-pāṇi
of a Dānava
closing or winking of
the eyes, twinkling.
—निमिन्-धर, अस्, m. (fr.
निमिम् acc. sing. + धर), N. of a prince.
निमि 2. नि-मि, cl. 5. P. A. -मिनोति, -मिनुते,
&c., to fix in, dig in
to fix, erect.
Macdonell
English
निमि nimi,
m.
 N. of various kings.
Benfey
English
निमि निमि,
m.
 A proper name,
Man. 7, 41.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
निमिः
पुं*
 - -
आँख का झपकना
निमिः
पुं*
 - -
"ईक्ष्वाकु की एक संतान, मिथिला में राज्य करने वाले राजाओं के कुल का पूर्वज"
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
निमि
पदविभागः - > पुल्लिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಸೂರ್ಯವಂಶದ ಇಕ್ಷ್ವಾಕು ಮಹಾರಾಜನ ಒಬ್ಬ ಮಗ/ಇಕ್ಷ್ವಾಕುರಾಜನ ಅನೇಕ ಮಂದಿ ಪುತ್ರರಲ್ಲಿ ಹನ್ನೆರಡನೆಯವನು
प्रयोगाः - > "आसीद्राजा निमिर्नाम इक्ष्वाकूणां महात्मनाम्। पुत्रो द्वादशमो वीर्ये धर्मे च परिनिष्ठितः"
उल्लेखाः - > रामा०
निमि
पदविभागः - > पुल्लिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ದತ್ತಾತ್ರೇಯನ ಪುತ್ರ
L R Vaidya
English
nimi {% m. %} 1. Twinkling
2. name of a king of Videha, R.xi.49.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Nimi,
(1) (= Pali id., also Nemi, q.v.) n. of a king, former incarnation of Śākyamuni
the hero of the Pali Nimi Jāt. (〔541〕): LV 〔170.16〕 (Tib. mu khyud, rim, suggesting Nemi)
MSV 〔i.112.18 ff.〕
(2) n. of a former Buddha: Sukh 〔6.9〕.
Mahabharata
English
Nimi^1, an ancient king of the Videhas. § 6 (Anukram.): I, 1, 227 (in Sañjaya's enumeration).--§ 267 (Yamasabhāv.): II, 8, 320 (in the palace of Yama).--§ 677 (Mokshadh.): XII, 235, 8600 (Vaidehaḥ, gave his kingdom to the brahmans).--§ 761 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 115, 5667 (among the kings who did not eat meat during the month of Kārttika). --§ 767 (do.): XIII, 137, 6255 (gave his kingdom [to the brahmans], cf. XII, 8600
PCR. is wrong in connecting Vaidarbhiḥ with Nimiḥ).--§ 775 (do.): XIII, 166, 7681 (rājā, enumeration). Cf. Vaideha.
Nimi^2, son of Dattātreya and father of Śrīmat. § 749 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 91, 4330 (Dattātreyasya putraḥ, father of Śrīmat), 4332, 4345 (was the first who performed a śrāddha), 92, 4372.
पुराणम्
English
निमि १ / NIMI I. A famous emperor who was the son of ikṣvāku. 1) Genealogy. Descended from viṣṇu thus: brahmā-marīci--kaśyapa--vivasvān--vaivasvata manu-ikṣvāku--nimi.
Among the sons of ikṣvāku, daṇḍa, vikukṣi and nimi became famous.2) Vasiṣṭha's curse. Emperor nimi was very generous with his gifts. He was interested in performing yajñas. The feeding hall that can be seen even today near the āśrama of gautama Maharṣi was built by emperor nimi. The emperor, a person of rājasic nature, decided to conduct a yajña which would take a long time to end and which required much money for gifts
and he got his father Ikṣvāku's permission for it. Arrangements were made for the yajña, and Ṛṣis like bhṛgu, aṅgiras vāmadeva, pulastya, pulaha and ṛcīka who were competent to perform yajña and great scholars in the Vedas were invited for the yajña. Lastly he met his family preceptor vasiṣṭha and told him thus: “Oh preceptor! I have made all arrangements for a yajña, which it is my desire should last for five hundred years. You would also come with me and see that the yajña is duly performed.”
vasiṣṭha listened to Nimi's request with great attention. But, he had already been invited by indra to conduct a yajña which would last for five hundred years, and he would be able to oblige nimi only after that period of time. So vasiṣṭha asked the emperor to postpone his proposed yajña by five hundred years. nimi returned disappointed.
nimi had no patience to wait for five hundred years. So he started the yajña with gautama as his preceptor. After Indra's yajña for 500 years was over, vasiṣṭha came to Nimi's yajña hall. nimi, at the time, was in the inner apartment of his palace. Though his servants went to him to tell him that his preceptor vasiṣṭha had come, they waited outside his chamber as he was sleeping then. Within a few moments vasiṣṭha was ablaze with anger. He raised his hands and cursed nimi thus: “Oh! nimi, you have insulted me, your preceptor. You disobeyed my injunction and began the yajña. Therefore, let your body be parted from the soul and fall on the ground.”
This curse of vasiṣṭha alarmed the servants of nimi so much that they roused him from sleep and told him all about the affair. nimi hurried to vasiṣṭha and prostrated at his feet. But, he did not shed his anger. This made nimi also angry. He also raised up his hands and cursed vasiṣṭha thus: “Oh muni! you who got angry without reason are worse than a caṇḍāla. Therefore let your body also be parted from the soul and fall to the ground.”
vasiṣṭha got alarmed at the above curse. He ran up to and submitted his grievance to brahmā, who told him thus:--“My son, your action was really fool-hardy. Yet, I shall advise you a way out of your troubles. You dissolve your-self in the effulgence of mitra and varuṇa and remain there permanently. After sometime you will be able to be born without being present in the womb of a woman. Then you will remember everything about your previous birth will acquire sense of righteousness and knowledge of the Vedas will become respected by all and will be omniscient.
The soul of vasiṣṭha parted from his body on account of the curse of nimi, saluted brahmā, went to the āśrama of mitrāvaruṇas and got mixed with their effulgence. Meanwhile urvaśī one day came to the āśrama of mitrāvaruṇas, who had seminal emission at her sight. The semen fell into a pot. The pot duly burst open and there emerged from it agastya and vasiṣṭha.
nimi returned to the yajña hall and told the munis about the curse on him of vasiṣṭha. While the munis were helplessly looking on, Nimi's body got separated from the soul and fell down. The munis placed the dead body in an uncovered coffin, kept it free from putrefaction with the help of medicines and mantras and continued with the yajña. At the close of the yajña the devas appeared and asked nimi which did he prefer to have, a human body or body of a deva. He preferred to have a deva body, and accordingly ascended to Svarga along with the devas.
As nimi had no sons to perform his obsequies the munis began churning the corpse repeating mantras and there arose from it an ideal person as glowing as nimi. As he was created by ‘mathana’ (churning) the munis named him mithi. Again, as he was created from a dead body he came to be known as janaka also. Further, as he was born from the body from which the soul had departed he was called videha also. The famous kingdom of mithilā on the banks of the gaṅgā was founded by this janaka.
janaka, the father of sītā, was a King born in this dynasty. To all the Kings born in this dynasty the surname ‘Janaka’ came to be applied. This dynasty is known as Janakavaṁśa and Videhavaṁśa after emperor mithi. (devī bhāgavata, 6th skandha).3) Other information. (i) He worships Sūrya's son yama in his court. (Sabhā Parva, Chapter 8, Verse 9).(ii) He gave gifts of land to brahmins. (Vana Parva, Chapter 234, Verse 26).(iii) He did not eat flesh. (anuśāsana parva, Chapter 115, Verse 65).
निमि २ / NIMI II. Son of Dattātreyamuni of the atri family. (anuśāsana parva, Chapter 91, Verse 5).
निमि ३ / NIMI III. Son of the King of vidarbha. After giving his daughter in marriage to agastya he attained heaven. (anuśāsana parva, Chapter 137, Verse 11).
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
निमिः,
पुं,
 इक्ष्वाकुराजपुत्त्रः । तस्य निमेषे स्थिति-कारणं यथा, --“निमिर्नाम नृपः स्त्रीभिः पुरा द्यूतमदीव्यत ।तत्रान्तरेऽभ्याजगाम वशिष्ठो ब्रह्मसम्भवः ॥
तस्य पूजामकुर्व्वन्तं शशाप स मुनिर्नृपम् ।विरेतास्त्वं भवस्वेति शप्तस्तेनाप्यसौ पुनः ॥
अन्योन्यशापाच्च तयोर्विशरीरे विचेतसी ।जग्मतुः शापनाशाय ब्रह्माणं जगतः पतिम् ॥
अथ ब्रह्मण आदेशाल्लोचनेषु वसन्निमिः ।निमेषाः स्युश्च लोकानां तद्विश्रामाय नारद ॥
”इति मत्स्यपुराणे ५५ अध्यायः ॥
* ॥
मतान्तरं यथा, --“निमिः सहस्रसंवत्सरं सत्रमारेभे । वशिष्ठञ्चहोतारं वरयामास । तमाह वशिष्ठः । अह-मिन्द्रेण पञ्चवर्षशतं यागार्थं प्रथमतरं वृतः ।आगतस्तवापि ऋत्विग् भविष्यामीत्युक्ते सोऽपितत्कालमेवान्यैर्गोतमादिभिर्यागमकरोत् । समाप्तेचामरपतियागे त्वरावान् वशिष्ठ आजगाम ।तत्कर्म्मकर्त्तृत्वं गोतमस्य दृष्ट्वा अयं विदेहोभविष्यतीति शापं ददौ । निमेः शरीरं सद्योमृतमिव तस्थौ । यज्ञसमाप्तौ भागग्रहणाया-गतान् देवान् ऋत्विज ऊचुः । यजमानाय वरोदीयतामिति । देवैश्च छन्दितो निमिराह ।नह्येतावति जगत्यन्यद्दुःखमस्ति यच्छरीरात्मनो-र्वियोगे भवति । तदहमिच्छामि सकललोचनेषुवस्तुम् । न पुनः शरीरग्रहणं कर्त्तुमित्येवमुक्तेदेवैरसावशेषभूतानां नेत्रेष्वासां कारितः । ततोभूतान्युन्मेषनिमेषं चक्रुः ।” इति विष्णुपुराणे ४अंशे ५ अध्यायः ॥
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
निमि
पु०
 अत्रिवंश्ये १ दत्तात्रेयपुत्रे “स्वावम्भुवोऽत्रिः कौरव्य!परमर्षिः प्रतापवान् । तस्य वंशे महाराज! दत्तात्रेयइति स्मृतः । दत्तात्रेयस्य पुत्रोऽभून्निन्निर्नाम तपोधनः”भा० अनु० ९१ अ० । २ कौरबवंश्ये भाविनृपभेदे “दण्ड-पाणिर्निमिस्तस्य क्षेमको कविता ततः । क्षेमकं प्राप्यराजानं संस्थां प्राप्स्यति वै कलौ” भाग० ९ । २२ । ९ ।द्वापरयुगीये असुरांशनृपभेदे “अक्षप्रपातने चैव निमिर्हं-सश्च दानवौ” हरिवं० १६१ अ० । ४ इक्ष्वाकुवंश्ये नृपभेदे“स्मासीद्राजा निमिर्नाम इक्ष्व कूणां महात्मनाम् । पुत्रोद्वादशमो वीर्य्ये धर्मे च परिनिष्ठितः” रामा० उ० ५५ स०तस्य वसिष्ठशापेन विदेहप्राप्तिकथा “यस्मात्त्वमन्यंवृतवान् मामवज्ञाय पार्थिव! । चेतनेन विनाभूतोदेहस्ते पार्थिवैष्यति” । तत्सर्गान्ते तस्य सर्वभूतानां नेत्रेषुनिमेषरूपतया स्थितिकथा “सुप्रीताश्च सुराः सर्वे निमे-श्चेतस्तदाऽब्रुवन् । वरं वरय राजर्षे! क्व ते चेतोनिरूप्यताम् । एवमुक्तः सुरेः सर्वैर्निमेश्चेतस्तदाऽब्रवीत् ।नेत्रेषु सर्वभूतानां वमेयं सुरसत्तमाः! । वादमित्येव वि-बुधा निमेश्चेतस्तदाऽब्रुवन् । नेत्रेषु सर्वभूतानां वायुभूतश्चरिष्यसि । त्वत्कृते निमिषिष्यन्ति चक्षूंषि पृथि-वीपते! । वायुमूतेन चरता विश्रमार्थं बुहुर्मुहुः”
Capeller
German
निमि
m.
 N. mehrerer Fürsten.
Stchoupak
French
निमि-
m.
 fait de cligner les yeux
n.
 de divers rois du Videha, de divers
autres personnages dont un fils d'lkṣvāku et un fils du Ṛṣi Dattātreya.