अष्टावक्रः (aSTAvakraH)
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Apte
Englishअष्टावक्रः [aṣṭāvakrḥ], [अष्टकृत्वः अष्टसु भागेषु वा वक्रः] of a celebrated Brāhmaṇa son of the great sage Kahoḍa. [Kahoḍa married a daughter of his preceptor Uddālaka, but he was so devoted to study that he generally neglected her. When once she was far advanced in pregnancy, the unborn son was provoked at his father's neglect of her and rebuked him for his absorption in study to the neglect even of his wife. The sage was very angry at this impertinence and condemned him to be born crooked
so he came forth with his eight (aṣṭa) limbs crooked (vakra)
whence his name
यस्मात्कुक्षौ वर्तमानो ब्रवीषि तस्माद्वको भवितास्यष्टकृत्वः when Kahoḍa was drowned into a river as the result of a wager in a dispute with a Buddhist, young Aṣṭavakra defeated the sage and delivered his father, who, being pleased, directed his son to bathe into the Samaṅgā river, on doing which the lad became perfectly straight, See Adhyāyas 132-34 of the Vanaparvan. ]
Apte 1890
Englishअष्टावक्रः [अष्टकृत्वः अष्टसु भागेषु वा वक्रः] N. of a celebrated Brāhmaṇa, son of the great sage Kahoḍa. [Kahoḍa married a daughter of his preceptor Uddālaka, but he was so devoted to study that he generally neglected her. When once she was far advanced in pregnancy, the unborn son was provoked at his father's neglect of her and rebuked him for his absorption in study to the neglect even of his wife. The sage was very angry at this impertinence and condemned him to be born crooked
so he came forth with his eight (ashṭa) limbs crooked (vakra)
whence his name
यस्मात्कुक्षौ वर्तमानो ब्रवीषि तस्माद्वक्रो भवितास्यष्टकृत्वः Mb. When Kahoḍa was drowned into a river as the result of a wager in a dispute with a Buddhist, young Ashṭāvakra defeated the sage and delivered his father, who, being pleased, directed his son to bathe into the Samaṅgā river, on doing which the lad became perfectly straight].
E Bharati Sampat
Sanskrit(पुं) अष्टसु भागेषु वक्रः । पृषोदरादित्वात् दीर्घः । ऋषिभेदः । उद्दालकशिष्यस्य कहोडस्य पुत्रः । "उपालब्धः शिष्यमध्ये महर्षिः स तं कोपादुदरस्थं शशाप । यस्मात् कुक्षौ वर्तमानो ब्रवीषि तस्माद्वक्रो भवितास्यष्टकृत्वः" ‘अष्टावक्रः प्रर्थितो वै महर्षिः’ । - म.भा वन १३४.११ ।
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Sanskrit अष्टावक्रः, अष्टावक्रऋषिः
एकः ऋषिः यः अतीव कुरूपः आसीत्।
"अष्टावक्रः परमज्ञानी आसीत्।"
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