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पुष्पोत्कटा (puSpotkaTA)

 
Capeller Eng
English
पुष्पोत्कटा
f.
N.
 of a Rakṣasi.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
पुष्पोत्कटा
f.
N.
 of a Rākṣasī (the mother of Rāvaṇa and Kumbha-karṇa),
MBh.
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
पुष्पोत्कटा
पदविभागः - > स्त्रीलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ರಾವಣ ಮತ್ತು ಕುಂಭಕರ್ಣ ಇವರ ತಾಯಿಯಾದ ಕೈಕಸಿಯ ಸಹೋದರಿ /ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಕುಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ ಸುಮಾಲಿಯ ಮಗಳು
Wordnet
Sanskrit
Synonyms:
 पुष्पोत्कटा
noun
राक्षसीविशेषः।
"कयाचित् कथया अनुसारेण पुष्पोत्कटा रावणस्य माता आसीत्।"
Mahabharata
English
Pushpotkaṭā, name of a female Rākshasa. § 526 (Rāmopākhyānap.): III, 275, 15893, 15895 (by Viśravas mother of Kumbhakarṇa and Rāvaṇa)
पुराणम्
English
पुष्पोत्कटा / PUṢPOTKAṬĀ. Mother of kubera.1) Genealogy. From brahmā were born two demons Heti and praheti. Heti married bhayā, daughter of kāla and to them was born a son named vidyutkeśa. vidyutkeśa married sālakaṭaṅkā daughter of sandhyā and to them was born a son named sukeśa. They abandoned the child in a forest and went away. śiva took care of the child sukeśa who married Daivavatī daughter of the gandharva called maṇimaya and she delivered three sons named mālyavān, sumālī and mālī and all the three started living in the crystal palace built at laṅkā by viśvakarmā.
At that time a gandharva woman called narmadā delivered three daughters named sundarī, ketumatī and vasudhā. When they came of age sundarī was married to mālyavān, ketumatī to sumālī and vasudhā to mālī. mālyavān got of sundarī seven demons named Vajrapuṣṭi, virūpākṣa, durmukha, suptaghna, Yajñakeśa, matta and unmatta and a demoness of name Nalā. sumālī got of ketumatī ten sons named prahasta, akampana, vikaṭa, kālakāmukha, dhūmrākṣa, daṇḍa, supārśva, saṁhrāda, Prakvāta and bhāsakarṇa and four daughters named vekā, puṣpotkaṭā, kaikasī and kumbhīnasī. mālī got of vasudhā four sons named Anala, anila, aha and sampāti.
sumālī wandered in the forests with his daughters. He gave all the four daughters in marriage to viśravas, son of pulastya. viśravas got of kaikasī three sons named rāvaṇa, kumbhakarṇa and vibhīṣaṇa and a daughter named śūrpaṇakhā. viśravas got of puṣpotkaṭā a son named vaiśravaṇa or kubera. (Chapter 11, agni purāṇa
Chapter 275, Vana Parva, uttara rāmāyaṇa).
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
पुष्पोत्कटा स्त्री राक्षसीभेदे सा च रावणकुम्भर्णयोर्माता“पुष्पोत्कटायां जज्ञाते द्वौ पुत्रौ राक्षसेश्वरौ । कुम्भ-कर्णदशग्रीवौ” भा० व० २७४ अ० ।
Capeller
German
पुष्पोत्कटा
f.
 N. der Mutter Rāvaṇa's.