परशु (parazu)
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Spoken Sanskrit
Englishपरशु - parazu - - axe [ ax - Amer. ]
Apte
Englishपरशुः [paraśuḥ], [परं-शृणाति, शॄ-कु डिच्च
1.34.]
An axe, a hatchet, a battle-axe
तर्जितः परशुधारया मम 11.78.
A weapon in general.
A thunderbolt.
धरः an epithet of Paraśurāma.
of Gaṇeśa.
a soldier armed with an axe. -मुद्रा a kind of pose in Tantraśāstra. -रामः 'Rāma with the axe', of a celebrated Brāhmaṇa warrior, son of Jamadagni and the sixth incarnation of Viṣṇu. [While young he cut off with his axe the head of his mother Reṇukā at the command of his father when none of his other brothers was willing to do so
(see जमदग्नि). Some time after this, king Kārtavīrya went to the hermitage of his father, and carried off his cow. But Paraśurāma, when he returned home, fought with the king and killed him. When his sons heard this they became very angry, and repaired to the hermitage, and on finding Jamadagni alone, they shot him dead. When Paraśurāma, who was not then also at home, returned, he became very much exasperated, and made the dreadful vow of exterminating the whole Kṣatriya race. He succeeded in fulfilling this vow, and is said to have 'rid the earth thrice seven times of the royal race'. He was afterwards, destroyer of the Kśatriyas as he was, defeated by Rāma, son of Daśaratha, though quite a boy of sixteen (see 11.68- 91). He is said to have at one time pierced through the Krauñcha mountain, being jealous of the might of Kārtikeya
57. He is one of the seven chirajivins and is believed to be still practising penance on the Mahendra mountain
1.: क्षत्रियरुधिरमये जगदपगतपापं स्नपयसि पयसि शामतभवतापम् । केशव धृतभृगुपतिरूप जय जगदीश हरे ।]. -वनम् of a certain part of hell.
Apte 1890
Englishपरशुः [परं-शृणाति, शॄ-कु डिच्च
cf. Uṇ. 1. 34] 1 An axe, a hatchet, a battleaxe
तर्जितः परशुधारया मम R. 11. 78.
2 A weapon in general.
3 A thunderbolt.
Comp.
धरः {1} an epithet of Paraśurāma. {2} of Gaṇeśa. {3} a soldier armed with an axe.
रामः ‘Rāma with the axe’, N. of a celebrated Brāhmaṇa warrior, son of Jamadagni and the sixth incarnation of Viṣṇu. [While young he out off with his axe the head of his mother Reṇukā at the command of his father when none of his other brothers was willing to do so
(see Jamadagni). Some time after this, king Kārtavīrya went to the hermitage of his father, and carried off his cow. But Paraśurāma, when he returned home, fought with the king and killed him. When his sons heard this, they became very angry, and repaired to the hermitage, and on finding Jamadagni alone, they shot him dead. When Paraśurāma, who was not then also at home, returned, he became very much exasperated, and made the dreadful vow of exterminating the whole Kṣatriya race. He succeeded in fulfilling this vow, and is said to have ‘rid the earth thrice seven times of the royal race’. He was afterwards, destroyer of the Kṣatriyas as he was, defeated by Rāma, son of Daśaratha, though quite a boy of sixteen
(see R. 11. 68-91). He is said to have at one time pierced through the krauncha mountain, being jealous of the might of Kārtikeya
cf. Me. 57. He is one of the seven chirajīvins, and is believed to be still practising penance on the Mahendra mountain. cf. Gīt. 1.:
क्षत्रियरुधिरमये जगदपगतपापं स्नपयसि पयसि शमितभवतापम् । केशव धृतभृगुपतिरूप जय जगदीश हरे ।].
वमं N. of a certain part of hell.
Monier Williams Cologne
EnglishMonier Williams 1872
Englishपरशु पर-शु, उस्, m. (fr. rt. शो and पर,
but said to be fr. rt. शॄ and पर, hurting another),
a hatchet, the axe of a wood-cutter, a battle-axe
a thunderbolt
N. of a prince
[cf. पर्शु
Gr.
πέλεκυ-ς, πέλεκ-ρα, πέλεκκο-ν, πέλεκκο-ς,
πελεκ-ᾶς.]
—परशु-धर, अस्, m. a soldier armed with
an axe
N. of Gaṇeśa
of Paraśu-rāma.
—परशु-
पाणि, इस्, इस्, इ, ‘axe in hand, ’ armed with an axe.
—परशु-मत्, आन्, अती, अत्, Ved. having an axe.
—परशु-राम, अस्, m. ‘Rāma with the axe, ’
an epithet of Rāma, son of the saint Jamad-agni,
(the first of the three Rāmas and the sixth Avatāra
or descent of the deity Viṣṇu who appeared in the
world for the purpose of repressing the tyranny and
punishing the violence of the Kṣatriya or military
caste
he seems to typify the tribe of Brāhmans and
their contests with the Kṣatriyas)
N. of a modern
prince by whose orders the Paraśurāma-prakāśa was
composed.
—परशुराम-प्रताप, अस्, m., N. of
a book mentioned in the Śūdra-dharma-tattva.
—प-
रशुराम-प्रादुर्भाव, अस्, m. ‘the manifestation
of Paraśu-rāma, ’ N. of the forty-fifth chapter of the
Narasiṃha-Purāṇa.
—परशुरामावतार (°म-
अव्°), अस्, m. ‘the descent of Paraśu-rāma, ’ i. e. the
incarnation of Viṣṇu in the form of Paraśu-rāma,
N. of a chapter of the Khaṇḍa-praśasti (a poem
ascribed to Hanu-mat).
—परशुरामावतार-क-
थन, अम्, n. ‘story of the descent of Paraśu-
rāma, ’ N. of the fiftieth chapter of the Uttara-
khaṇḍa or fifth part of the Padma-Purāṇa.
—प-
रशु-वन, अम्, n. ‘forest of axes, ’ N. of a hell
(containing a forest the leaves of which are axes).
Macdonell
EnglishBenfey
EnglishApte Hindi
Hindiपरशुः
- परं शृणति-शृ + कु ङिच्च
" कुल्हाड़ा, कुल्हाड़ी, कुठार फरसा"
परशुः
- परं शृणति-शृ + कु ङिच्च
"शस्त्र, हथियार"
परशुः
- परं शृणति-शृ + कु ङिच्च
बज्र
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannadaपरशु
पदविभागः - > पुल्लिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಕೊಡಲಿ/ಮರವನ್ನು ಕಡಿಯುವ ಒಂದು ಆಯುಧ
निष्पत्तिः - > शॄ(हिंसायाम्) "कुः" (उ० १-३३) टिलोपश्च।
व्युत्पत्तिः - > परान् शृणाति
प्रयोगाः - > "उग्रेण भोस्तव तपस्तपसा दहामि पक्षान्तरे च सदृशं परशुः करोतु"
उल्लेखाः - > म०वी० ३-४४
परशु
पदविभागः - > पुल्लिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಆಯುಧ/ಶಸ್ತ್ರ
परशु
पदविभागः - > पुल्लिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಟಂಕಣಕಾರ/ಬಿಳಿಗಾರ/ಶಸ್ತ್ರಕ್ಷಾರ
विस्तारः - > "परशुः शस्त्रकण्टकः शस्त्रक्षारो महाबलः" वैज०
L R Vaidya
EnglishSanskrit Tibetan
Tibetandgra sta
१) आयुध २) परशु
अभिधानचिन्तामणिः
Sanskritभिन्दिपाले सृगः कुन्ते प्रासोऽथ द्रुघणो घनः ॥ ७८५ ॥
मुद्गरः स्यात्कुठारस्तु परशुः पर्शुपर्श्वधौ ।
परश्वधः स्वधितिश्च परिघः परिघातनः ॥ ७८६ ॥
भिन्दिपाल (पुं), सृग (पुं), कुन्त (पुं), प्रास (पुं), द्रुघण (पुं), घन (पुं), मुद्गर (पुंस्त्री), कुठार (पुंस्त्री), परशु (पुं), पर्शु (पुं), पर्श्वध (पुं), परश्वध (पुं), स्वधिति (पुं), परिघ (पुं), परिघातन (पुं)
अभिधानरत्नमाला
Sanskritपरश्वध
परश्वध, कुठार, परशु, स्वधिति
परश्वधः कुठारः स्यात्परशुः स्वधितिस्तथा ।
verse 2.1.1.474
page 0054
Mahabharata
EnglishParaśu, an ancient king. § 6 (Anukram.): I, 1, 228 (in Sañjaya's enumeration).
Vedic Reference
EnglishParaśu in the Rigveda^1 and later^2 denotes the axe of the
woodcutter. Of its form we know nothing. A red-hot axe
was used in a form of ordeal (Divya) applied in accusations of
theft.^3 See also Parśu.
1) i. 127, 3
vii. 104, 21
x. 28, 8
53, 9, etc.
2) Av. iii. 19, 4
vii. 28, 1
xi. 9, 1
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xii. 10
Satapatha
Brāhmaṇa, iii. 6, 4, 10
Aitareya
Brāhmaṇa, ii. 35
Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa,
x. 1
Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad, ii. 11, etc.
3) Chāndogya Upaniṣad, vi. 16, 1.
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskritपरशुः, (परान् शत्रून् शृणाति हिनस्त्यनेनेति । शॄहिंसायाम् + “आङ्परयोः खनिशॄभ्यां डिच्च ।”उणां । १ । ३४ । इति कुः स च डित् ।) अस्त्र-विशेषः । टाङ्गी इति भाषा ॥
तत्पर्य्यायः ।पर्शुः २ परश्वधः ३ पर्श्वधः ४ स्वधितिः ५ कुठारः ६ ।इति हेमचन्द्रः ॥
(यथा, मार्कण्डेये । ८९ । १४ ।“ततः परशुहस्तं तमायान्तं दैत्यपुङ्गवम् ।आहत्य देवीबाणौघैरपातयत भूतले ॥
”)
वाचस्पत्यम्
SanskritGrassman
GermanBurnouf
FrenchNo entries for this word is found.
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