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कुशनाभ (kuzanAbha)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कुश—नाभ
m.
N.
 of a son of Kuśa,
Hariv.
R.
BhP.
Kathās.
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
कुशनाभ
पदविभागः - > पुल्लिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಚಂದ್ರವಂಶದ ಕುಶಮಹಾರಾಜನ ೪ ಮಂದಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳರಲ್ಲೊಬ್ಬ
निष्पत्तिः - > "अच्" (५-४-७५)
व्युत्पत्तिः - > कुश इव नाभिरस्य
पुराणम्
English
कुशनाभ / KUŚANĀBHA. A son born to kuśa of vaidarbhī. (For Genealogy see under viśvāmitra). Sage kuśa had four sons, namely kuśāmba, kuśanābha, asūrtarajasa and vasu, and kuśanābha built Mahodayapura and lived there. One hundred daughters were born to him of his wife ghṛtācī. Vāyubhagavān once asked the girls to marry him at which proposal they laughed at him in derision. He cursed them and made them hunch-backed ugly women, and kuśanābha felt very sorry about this cruel fate of his daughters.
To somadā, daughter of a gandharva woman called ūrmilā, had been born a son, brahmadatta, due to the mental power of the sage cūli kuśanābha gave in marriage his hundred daughters to brahmadatta, and they were cured of their hunch at the touch of brahmadatta and became their previous beautiful selves.
kuśanābha conducted the yajña called Putrakāmeṣṭi, and kuśa, who was so pleased by the yajña blessed him to have a son called gādhi. viśvāmitra was the son of this gādhi. viśvāmitra had also a sister satyavatī, whom ṛcīka wedded. (vālmīki rāmāyaṇa, Bālakāṇḍa, Cantos 32-35).
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
कुशनाभ
पु०
 कुशैव नाभिरस्य अच् समा० । वलाकाश्वपौत्रे कुशपुत्रे नृपभेदे “अजकस्य तु दायादो वलाकाश्वोमहीपतिः । बभूव मृगयाशीलः कुशस्तस्यात्मजोऽभवत् ।कुशपुत्रा बभूबुर्हि चत्वारोदेववर्चसः । कुशिकः कुशनाभश्चकुशाश्वो मूर्तिमांस्तथा” हरिवं २७ अ० । कन्याकुब्जशब्देतच्चरितानि दर्शितानि तस्य राजधानी महोदयनामपुरंयथा रामा० आदि० ३२ स० “कुशनाभस्तु धर्म्मात्मा पुरांचको महोदयम्” ।