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अमावसु (amAvasu)

 
Capeller Eng
English
अमावसु
m.
N.
of a king.
Apte
English
अमावसुः [amāvasuḥ],
N.
of a prince (a descendent of Purūravas)
Mb.
Hariv.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अमा—वसु
m.
N.
of a prince (a descendant of Purūravas),
MBh.
Hariv.
VP.
Monier Williams 1872
English
अमावसु अमा-वसु, उस्, m., N. of a son of
Purūravas, of a son of Kuśa and others.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
अमावसुः
पुं*
अमा-वसुः -
पुरुरवा के वंश का एक राजा
Mahabharata
English
Amāvasu, son of Purūravas and Urvaśī. § 141 (Purūravas): I, 75, 3149.
पुराणम्
English
अमावसु / AMĀVASU I. Son of purūravas by urvaśī. (M.B., Ādi Parva, Chapter 75, Verse 24).
Genealogy. From viṣṇu, brahmā-atri-candra-BudhaPurūravas-amāvasu.
अमावसु / AMĀVASU II. One of the pitṛs. Once acchodā was fascinated by the physical charm of this amāvasu and made advances of love to him. amāvasu repelled her advances. On account of this impropriety of acchodā, who was a spiritual daughter of the pitṛs, she was degraded and in her next birth was born as kālī or satyavatī. (padma purāṇa, sṛṣṭi Khaṇḍa).
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
अमावसु
पु०
आयुपुत्रे ऋषिभेदे “अमावसुमिति ख्यात-मायोः पुत्रं यशस्विगम्” ह० बं०