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निकुंभ (nikuMbha)

 
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nikuMBa {% m. %} Name of an attendant of Śiva, R.ii.35.
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निकुम्भ १ / NIKUMBHA I. A very mighty rākṣasa. Son of kumbhakarṇa (Rāvaṇa's brother) by his wife Vajramālā. He had an elder brother called kumbha.
When kumbha was killed in the rāma-rāvaṇa war nikumbha rushed to the front line and fought fiercely, and he was killed by hanūmān. (vālmīki rāmāyaṇa, yuddha Kāṇḍa, Canto 77).
निकुम्भ २ / NIKUMBHA II. Third son of prahlāda. (Ādi Parva, Chapter 63, Verse 19).
निकुम्भ ३ / NIKUMBHA III. An asura born in the dynasty of hiraṇyakaśipu. sunda and Upasunda were his sons. (Ādi Parva, Chapter 208, Verse 2).
निकुम्भ ४ / NIKUMBHA IV. A warrior of subrahmaṇya (śalya Parva, Chapter 45, Verse 58).
निकुम्भ ५ / NIKUMBHA V. A king born in the ikṣvāku dynasty. He was the son of haryaśva and the father of saṁhitāśva (brahmāṇḍa purāṇa, Chapter 1).
निकुम्भ ६ / NIKUMBHA VI. Another form of gaṇapati. The following story about him in the nikumbha state is told in vāyu purāṇa.
suyaśā, wife of divodāsa used to worship in the nikumbha temple of vārāṇasī for the sake of a child. As the worship did not yield the desired effect, divodāsa smashed the idol in the temple into pieces. Then nikumbha cursed that vārāṇasī should decline. As a result of the curse the Hehayas like tālajaṅgha and others destroyed vārāṇasī and drove divodāsa away from there. At last the nikumbha temple was rebuilt and vārāṇasī became prosperous again.