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अंग
aMga
अंग
ind.
A
vocative
particle
meaning
‘well,
’
‘well,
sir,
’
‘indeed,
’
‘true
’
‘assent’
(
as
in
अंगीकृ
)
अंग
कच्चित्कुशली
तातः
K.
221
प्रभुरपि
जनकानामंग
भो
याचकस्ते
Mv.
3.
5
अंग
अस्ति
कश्चिद्विमर्दको
नामात्रभवतः
Dk.
59
अंग
कुरु
अंग
पच
P.
VIII.
1.
33
Sk
अंगाधीष्व
भक्तं
तव
दास्यामि
P.
VIII.
2.
96
Sk.
समनद्ध
किमंग
भूपतिः
Śi.
16.
34,
2.
12
Ki.
10.
55,
13.
65
used
with
किं
in
the
sense
of
‘how
much
less’,
or
‘how
much
more
’
शक्तिरस्ति
कस्यचिद्विदेहराजस्य
छायामप्यवस्कंदितुं
किमंग
जामातरं
Mv.
3
तृणेन
कार्यं
भवतीश्वराणां
किमंग
वाघस्तवता
नरेण
Pt.
1.
71.
Lexicographers
give
the
following
senses
of
अंगः
-
क्षिप्रे
च
पुनरर्थे
च
संगमासूययोस्तथा
।
हर्षे
संबोधने
चैव
ह्यंगशब्दः
प्रयुज्यते
॥
शरीर
के
अंग,
aMga
{%
(
I
)
ind.
%}
(
a
)
A
vocative
particle
implying
solicitation,
abuse
or
joy
(
b
)
a
particle
implying-
(
1
)
attention,
Sis.ii.12
(
2
)
confirmation,
तन्मन्ये
क्वचिदंग
भृंगतरुणेनास्वादिता
मालती
G.M.
(
3
)
reverence,
अंग
विद्वन्माणवकमध्यापय
G.M.
(
4
)
interrogation
(
5
)
recurrence,
(
with
किम्
in
the
sense
of
‘how
much
more,
’
तृणेन
कार्यं
भवतीश्वराणां
किमंग
वाग्घस्तवता
नरेण
Panch.i.
)
अंग
/
AṄGA.
A
King
belonging
to
the
candra
vaṁśa.
(
Lunar
dynasty
).1
)
Genealogy.
Descended
from
viṣṇu
in
the
following
order:
brahmā-atri-candra-budha-purūravas-ĀyusNahuṣa-yayāti-anudruhyu-sabhānara-KālanaraSṛñjaya-Titikṣa-Kuśadhṛta-homa-sutapas-bali-aṅga.2
)
Birth.
aṅga,
kaliṅga,
suhma,
Kaṇḍra,
vaṅga,
Adrupa
and
Anaśābhu
are
the
seven
sons
born
to
bali,
the
son
of
sutapas,
by
his
wife
Suteṣṇā,
and
the
King
aṅga
is
one
of
them.
There
is
a
story
about
the
birth
of
these
sons.
Once
there
lived
a
hermit
named
Utatthya.
He
was
the
elder
brother
of
bṛhaspati.
One
day
when
mamatā,
Utatthya's
wife,
was
pregnant,
bṛhaspati
approached
her
with
carnal
desires.
In
spite
of
her
efforts
to
dissuade
her
brother-in-law
from
his
attempts
she
could
not
prevail
upon
him.
He
forced
her
and
satisfied
his
desire.
The
child
in
her
womb
protested
and
kicked
the
sperm
of
bṛhaspati
out
into
the
floor.
bṛhaspati
got
angry
and
cursed
the
child
in
the
womb:
“May
you
fall
in
perpetual
darkness”.
So
the
child
was
born
blind
and
remained
blind
throughout
his
life.
Hence
he
got
the
name
‘Dīrghatamas’.
dīrghatamas
married
Pradveṣi.
A
son
named
gautama
was
born
to
them.
The
duty
of
supporting
dīrghatamas
fell
upon
the
wife
and
the
son,
who
put
him
on
a
raft
and
pushed
him
astray
into
the
River
Ganges.
King
bali,
who
was
bathing
in
the
river
saw
this.
He
rescued
the
hermit
and
took
him
to
the
palace
and
pleasing
him
by
hospitality,
requested
him
to
beget
children
in
his
wife
Suteṣṇā,
who
detesting
the
idea
sent
a
Śūdrā
woman
Dhātreyī
in
her
stead
and
eleven
children
were
born
to
them.
By
and
by
dīrghatamas
came
to
know
of
the
deceit
played
by
Suteṣṇā
on
him
and
he
became
very
angry.
But
the
King
pacified
him
and
pleased
him
again
and
dīrghatamas
begot
five
sons
by
Suteṣṇā.
They
were
aṅga,
vaṅga,
kaliṅga,
pauṇḍra
and
suhma.
dīrghatamas
blessed
them
that
they
would
become
very
famous.
aṅga,
vaṅga,
kaliṅga,
pauṇḍra
and
suhma
were
the
five
kingdoms
ruled
by
aṅga,
vaṅga,
kaliṅga,
pauṇḍra
and
suhma
respectively.
These
five
are
the
famous
Kings
of
the
bāli
family.
(
mahābhārata,
Ādi
Parva,
Chapter
104
).3
)
How
aṅga
got
children.
Once
aṅga
performed
a
horse
sacrifice.
But
the
gods
did
not
appear
to
receive
oblations.
Holy
seers
said
that
the
Gods
refused
to
accept
the
oblations
offered
by
the
King
because
he
was
childless.
So
he
performed
the
sacrifice
called
Putrakāmeṣṭi
(
Sacrifice
to
get
a
son
)
and
from
the
sacrificial
fire
arose
a
divine
person
with
a
golden
flask
of
pudding,
which
he
offered
to
the
King
and
his
queen.
The
King
and
the
queen
sunīthā
ate
the
pudding,
as
a
result
of
which
a
son
was
born
to
them.
He
was
named
vena.
This
son
was
wicked.
Because
of
his
wickedness
the
King
became
so
miserable
that
he
left
his
kingdom
and
went
on
a
pilgrimage.
Since
there
was
no
other
means
the
people
enthroned
vena,
who
tortured
his
subjects
beyond
limit.
(
bhāgavata,
4th
skandha,
Chapters
Band
14
).
अंगम्
/
AṄGA(
M
).
The
kingdom
ruled
by
King
aṅga.
Other
details:1
)
The
Dynasty.
The
first
King
of
the
aṅga
dynasty
was
aṅga
the
son
of
bali.
Anagābhu,
draviratha,
dharmaratha,
romapāda
(
lomapāda
),
caturaṅga,
pṛthulākṣa,
bṛhadratha,
bṛhanmanas,
jayadratha,
vijaya,
dṛḍhavrata,
satyakarmā,
atiratha,
karṇa,
vṛṣasena
and
others
were
kings
of
this
dynasty.
karṇa
was
the
adopted
son
of
atiratha.
During
the
period
of
the
mahābhārata,
Kings
of
the
atiratha
family
were
under
the
sway
of
the
candra
vaṁśa
(
Lunar
dynasty
)
kings
such
as
dhṛtarāṣṭra
and
pāṇḍu.
(
For
further
informations
see
the
word
atiratha
).2
)
How
karṇa
became
the
king
of
aṅga.
A
contest
in
archery
and
the
wielding
of
other
weapons
was
going
on
in
hastināpura,
the
competitors
being
the
kauravas
and
the
pāṇḍavas.
The
status
of
karṇa,
who
appeared
on
the
side
of
the
kauravas,
was
questioned
by
the
pāṇḍavas
on
the
occasion
and
duryodhana,
who
always
stood
on
his
dignity,
anointed
karṇa
as
the
King
of
aṅga,
on
the
spot.
(
M.B.,
Ādi
Parva,
Chapter
136
).3
)
Drought
in
the
kingdom
of
aṅga.
lomapāda
(
romapāda
)
the
king
of
aṅga
once
deceived
a
hermit
Brahmin.
So
all
the
Brahmins
quitted
the
country
and
thereafter
there
was
no
rainfall
in
the
country
for
several
years.
The
sages
of
the
country
began
to
think
on
the
means
of
bringing
about
rain.
One
day
they
approached
the
King
and
told
him
that
the
only
way
to
get
rain
was
to
bring
the
great
hermit
ṛṣyaśṛṅga
to
the
country.
Once
kaśyapa
happened
to
see
urvaśī
and
he
had
seminal
flow.
The
sperm
fell
in
a
river.
A
deer
swallowed
it
along
with
the
water
it
drank.
It
gave
birth
to
a
human
child
with
horns
on
the
head.
This
child
was
called
ṛṣyaśṛṅga.
It
was
brought
up
by
a
hermit
called
vibhāṇḍaka
in
his
hut.
ṛṣyaśṛṅga
had
never
seen
women
and
by
virtue
of
this,
there
occurred
rainfall
wherever
he
went.
The
King
lomapāda
sent
some
courtesans
to
the
forest
to
attract
ṛṣyaśṛṅga,
who
following
them
arrived
at
the
court
of
lomapāda
the
King
of
aṅga
and
the
King
gave
ṛṣyaśṛṅga,
as
a
gift,
his
daughter
śāntā.
Thus
the
country
got
rain.
This
lomapāda
was
a
friend
of
daśaratha.
(
mahābhārata,
araṇya
parva,
Chapters
110
to
113
).4
)
How
the
Kingdom
got
the
name
aṅga.
One
opinion
is
that
the
Kingdom
got
its
name
from
the
King
aṅga
who
ruled
over
it.
Another
opinion
is
that
the
king
got
his
name
from
the
country
he
ruled.
However
there
is
a
story
revealing
how
the
country
came
to
be
called
aṅga.
In
the
realm
of
God,
preliminary
steps
were
being
taken
for
making
Śrī
Parameśvara
wed
pārvatī.
According
to
the
instructions
of
Devendra,
kāmadeva
(
the
Lord
of
Love--Cupid
)
was
trying
to
break
the
meditation
of
śiva
and
when
śiva
opened
his
third
eye,
fire
emitted
from
it
and
anaṅga
(
kāmadeva
)
was
burned
to
ashes.
It
was
in
the
country
of
aṅga
that
the
ashes
of
the
‘aṅga’
(
Body
)
of
kāmadeva
fell
and
from
that
day
onwards
the
country
came
to
be
called
aṅga
and
kāmadeva,
‘Anaṅga’
(
without
body
).
(
vālmīki
rāmāyaṇa,
Bālakāṇḍa,
sarga
26
).5
)
Other
informations.
(
1
)
It
is
mentioned
in
the
Hindi
Dictionary,
‘Śabda
Sāgara’
that
the
kingdom
of
aṅga
embracing
Bhagatpur
and
Muṁger
in
Bihar
had
its
capital
at
Campāpurī
and
that
the
country
had
often
stretched
from
Vaidyanāthanāma
to
Bhuvaneśvar.(
2
)
arjuna
had
visited
the
Kingdom
of
aṅga
also
during
his
pilgrimage.
(
M.B.,
Ādi
Parva,
Chapter
219,
Stanza
9
).(
3
)
The
King
of
aṅga
was
present
at
the
sacrifice
of
rājasūya
(
Royal
consecration
)
celebrated
by
dharmaputra,
when
the
pāṇḍavas
were
living
at
indraprastha.
(
M.B.,
Sabhā
Parva,
Chapter
52,
Stanza
16
).(
4
)
On
one
occasion
śrī
kṛṣṇa
defeated
the
Aṅgas
in
a
battle.
(
M.B.,
droṇa
parva,
Chapter
11,
Stanza
15
).(
5
)
paraśurāma
had
defeated
the
Aṅgas
once.
(
M.B.,
droṇa
parva,
Chapter
7,
Stanza
12
).(
6
)
In
the
battle
of
kurukṣetra
between
the
pāṇḍavas
and
the
kauravas,
on
the
sixteenth
day
of
the
battle,
the
heroes
of
aṅga
made
an
onslaught
on
arjuna.
(
M.B.,
karṇa
Parva,
Chapter
17,
Stanza
12
).(
7
)
The
Aṅgas
attacked
the
armies
of
dhṛṣṭadyumna
and
the
King
of
pāñcāla.
(
M.B.,
karṇa
Parva,
Chapter
22,
Stanza
2
).(
8
)
A
low
caste
man
from
aṅga
attacked
bhīma,
who
killed
the
man
and
his
elephant.
(
mahābhārata,
droṇa
Parva,
Chapter
26,
Stanzas
14
to
17
).