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देवरात (devarAta)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
देवरात
m.
 (-तः)
1. A sort of crane.
2. The name of a king
also Parikshit.
Capeller Eng
English
देवरात
m.
 God-given, a man's name.
Yates
English
देवरात (तः) 1.
m.
 A sort of crane
name of a king,
Parīkshit.
Wilson
English
देवरात
m.
 (-तः)
1 A sort of crane.
2 The name of a king
also Parikṣit.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
देव—रात
m.
 ‘god-given’,
N.
 of Śunaḥ-śepa after being received into the family of Viśvā-mitra,
AitBr.
 vii, 17
MBh.
&c.
 (pl. his descendants,
Pravar.
 )
N.
 of a king who was the son of Su-ketu and descendant of Nimi,
R.
Pur.
of a king who was son of Karambhi,
Pur.
of another king,
MBh.
 ii, 121
of Parikṣit,
BhP.
of the father of Yājñavalkya, ib. xii, 6, 64 (cf. दैव-राति)
a sort of crane,
L.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
देवरातः
पुं*
 देव-रातः -
परीक्षित का विशेषण
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
देवरात
पदविभागः - > पुल्लिङ्गः
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Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
देवरात the author of a Smṛti. Quoted in Saṃskāra-
kaustubha, Saṃskāramayūkha and Śāntimayūkha.
देवरात the author of a Smṛti. Quoted by Devaṇṇa in
Smṛticandrikā.
Mahabharata
English
Devarāta^1, a prince. § 264 (Sabhākriyāp.): II, 4, 121 (waited upon Yudhishṭhira).
Devarāta^2, a muni, son of Viśvāmitra. § 637 (Rājadh.): XII, 47, 1593 (among the ṛshis who surrounded Bhīshma as he lay on his arrow-bed).--§ 721 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 3, 188 (fifty sons of Viśvāmitra were cursed to become śvapacas because they did not honour their eldest brother D.).--§ 721b (Viśvāmitrop.): XIII, 4, 249 (enumeration of the sons of Viśvāmitra).
पुराणम्
English
देवरात १ / DEVARĀTA I. A king who flourished in Dharmaputra's assembly. (Sabhā Parva, Chapter 4, Verse 26).
देवरात २ / DEVARĀTA II. (śunaśśepha).
General. A king of mithilā. The kings of mithilā were commonly called janaka. devarāta was called devarāta janaka. (See janaka).2) Genealogy. From viṣṇu descended thus:--brahmā, -bhṛgu--cyavana--ūrva--ṛcīka--devarāta (śunaśśepha). (For details see śunaśśepha).
देवरात ३ / DEVARĀTA III. A house-holder whose daughter kalā was married by Śoṇa. kalā was killed by mārīca. devarāta and Śoṇa along with viśvāmitra went to Śivaloka in search of kalā. As kalā had, at the time of her death, uttered the word ‘Hara’ (śiva) she had gone to Mount kailāsa and was spending her days in the service of pārvatī who, after making kalā and Śoṇa participate in Somavāravrata sent them back to earth. (padma purāṇa, pātāla Khaṇḍa, Chapter 112).
शुनश्शेफ / ŚUNAŚŚEPHA (devarāta). The story of a brāhmaṇa youth who was to be offered as human sacrifice and who was saved by viśvāmitra, is famous in the Purāṇas. The name of the brāhmaṇa youth was śunaśśepha. But even in the Purāṇas there are two versions of this story. In one of them, śunaśśepha is referred to as the son of Ṛcīkamuni. In the other, it was hariścandra who performed the yāga and śunaśśepha who was brought for sacrifice, was the son of a brāhmaṇa named ajīgarta. After viśvāmitra saved the boy, he got another name, “Devarāta”. (For details of the two versions, see under ambarīṣa and the 4th para under viśvāmitra).
śunaśśepha later became a Maharṣi He composed ṛgveda, 1st Maṇḍala, 1st aṣṭaka. Besides in ṛgveda, 1st Maṇḍala, 6th Anuvāka, 30th Sūkta it is stated that indra had given a golden chariot to Śunnaśśepha.
Vedic Reference
English
Deva-rāta (‘god-given’) Vaiśvāmitra (‘descendant of Viśvā-
mitra’) is the name given to Śunaḥśepa after his adoption by
Viśvāmitra in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa.^1
1) vii. 17. Cf. Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra, xv. 27.
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
देवरातः,
पुं,
 (रै + क्तः । देवेन श्रीकृष्णेन रातःरक्षितः ।) परिक्षित् राजा । इति श्रीभाग-वतम् ॥
सारसपक्षिविशेषः । इति शब्दार्थ-कल्पतरुः ॥
(विश्वामित्रपुत्त्रः । यथा, हरि-वंशे । २७ । ४७ ।“विश्वामित्रस्य पुत्त्रास्तु देवरातादयः स्मृताः ॥
”एतन्निरुक्तिर्यथा भागवते । ९ । १६ । ३२ ।“यो रातो देवयजने देवैर्गाधिषु तापसः ।देवरात इति ख्यातः शुनःशेफस्तु भार्गवः ॥
”निमेर्ज्येष्ठः पुत्त्रः । यथा, रामायणे । १ । ६६ । ८ ।“देवरात इति ख्यातो निमेर्ज्येष्ठो महीपतिः ॥
”युधिष्ठिरस्य सभास्थक्षत्त्रियाणामन्यतमः । यथा, महाभारते । २ । ४ । २६ ।“चानूरो देवरातच्च भोजो भामरथश्च यः ॥
”)
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
देवरात
पु०
 देवात्रनं रायासुः संज्ञायां क्त । १ विष्णुना देवेनरक्षिते परिक्षिते नृपे परिक्षितशब्दे तत्कथा दृश्या२ विश्वामित्रपुत्रभेदे “विश्वामित्रस्य च सुता देवरातादयःस्मृताः” हरिवं० २७ अ० । “पार्थिवा देवराताश्च शालङ्क्या-यनवङ्कनम्” हरिवं २७ अ० । ३ द्वापरयुगोद्भवे राजभेदे च“चानूरुर्देवरातश्च भोजी भीमरथश्च यः” उपासते सभायांतु कुन्तीपुत्रं युधिष्ठिरम्” भा० सभा० ४ अ० उपसंहारे युधि-ष्ठिरसभासत्त्वेन तस्योक्तेः न तस्य परिक्षितादिरूपत्वम् ।ततः काश्यादि० ठञ् ञिठ् च । दैवरातिक तदपत्यादौत्रि० । ठञि स्त्रियां ङीप् इति भेदः ।
Capeller
German
देवरात (gottgegeben)
m.
 Mannsname.