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मेना (menA)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
मेना
f.
 (-ना) The wife of Himālaya: see मेनका ।
Capeller Eng
English
मे॑ना
f.
 wife, female.
Yates
English
मेना (ना) 1.
f.
 The wife of
Himālaya.
Wilson
English
मेना
f.
 (-ना) The wife of Himālaya
see मेनका.
Apte
English
मेना [mēnā], 1
N.
 of the wife of Himālaya
मेनां मुनीनामपि माननीयाम् (उपयेमे)
Ku.*
 1.18
5.5.
N.
 of a river.
speech (वाच्).
Apte 1890
English
मेना 1 N. of the wife of Himālaya
मेनां मुनीनामपि माननीयां (उपयेमे) Ku. 1. 18, 5. 5.
2 N. of a river.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
मेना a
f.
 See below.
मे॑ना b
f.
 a woman (also the female of any animal),
RV.
speech (= वाच्),
Naigh.
 i, 11
N.
 of the daughter of Vṛṣaṇ-aśva,
RV.
 i, 51, 13 (Sāy. )
of an Apsaras (= मेनका, wife of Hima-vat and mother of Parvatī),
Hariv.
R.
Pur.
of a river,
MBh.
Monier Williams 1872
English
मेना मेना, f. a woman (Ved.)
the female
of any animal (Ved.)
speech, = वाच् (Ved.)
(ac-
cording to Mādhava) the sound of thunder
(accord-
ing to Sāy.) N. of the daughter of Vṛṣaṇ-aśva (the
latter being sometimes called Mena)
N. of an
Apsaras (wife of Hima-vat and mother of Pārvatī)
of a river.
—मेना-जा, f. ‘daughter of Menā, ’ Pār-
vatī.
—मेना-धव, अस्, m. ‘husband of Menā, ’
Hima-vat.
Macdonell
English
मेना ménā,
f.
 woman, dame, female of an 🞄animal (RV.)
N. of the wife of the Himālaya
🞄N. of a river.
Benfey
English
मेना मेना,
f.
 One of the courtesans
of heaven, and wife to Himālaya, Rām.
1, 37, 15 Gorr.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
मेना
स्त्री*
 - "मान + इनच्, नि* साधुः"
हिमालय की पत्नी का नाम
मेना
स्त्री*
 - -
एक नदी का नाम
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
मेना
पदविभागः - > स्त्रीलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಹಿಮವಂತನ ಪತ್ನಿ /ಪಾರ್ವತಿಯ ತಾಯಿ
निष्पत्तिः - > मान (पूजायाम्) - "इनच्" (उ० २-५०)
व्युत्पत्तिः - > मान्यते पूज्यते
प्रयोगाः - > "मेनां मुनीनामपि माननीयामात्मानुरूपां विविधोपमेये"
उल्लेखाः - > कुमा० १-१८
मेना
पदविभागः - > स्त्रीलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಒಂದು ನದಿ
L R Vaidya
English
menA {% f. %} 1. Name of the wife of Himālaya, शशाक मेना न नियंतुमुद्यमात् K.S.v.5, i.18
2. name of a river.
Mahabharata
English
Menā, a river. § 574 (Jambūkh.): VI, 9, 331 (in Bhāratavarsha).
पुराणम्
English
मेना १ / MENĀ I. Wife of himavān. Beautiful menā was the daughter of mahāmeru.
himavān lord of the mountains and the seat of many minerals and fossils had two daughters of unparallelled beauty and their mother was the lovely menā, daughter of mahāmeru and wife of himavān. (sarga 35, Bāla Kāṇḍa, vālmīki rāmāyaṇa).
rāmāyaṇa states that menā had two daughters of extraordinary beauty named gaṅgā and umā. They were both married by śiva.
But vāmana purāṇa in chapter 51 states that menā had three beautiful daughters and a son named sunābha. Menā's first daughter was rāgiṇī with red body and eyes and wearing a red dress. Her second daughter named kuṭilā was white in colour, had lotus eyes, and wore white dress. The third was a girl of enchanting beauty named kālī. She was blue-black in colour with eyes like the blue lotus leaf.
It can be surmised that the umā of rāmāyaṇa and kālī were one and the same person by the following verse in the Amarakośa.umā kātyāyanī gaurī
kālī Haimavatīśvarī ।।
When the statements of the two Purāṇas are taken together menā should have had four daughters, gaṅgā, rāgiṇī, kuṭilā and kālī and a son named sunābha.
मेना २ / MENĀ II. Daughter of the pitṛs (Manes). pitṛs are of two kinds: anagnis and Sāgnis. anagnis are those who do not perform yāgas and those who perform yāgas are called Sāgnis. anagnis are called Agniṣvāttas and Sāgnis are called Barhiṣadas. Svadhā was the common wife of all the pitṛs. Svadhā got two daughters, menā and dhāriṇī. They were both very well- learned, virtuous girls and were Brahmavādinīs (expounders of vedānta philosophy). (Chapter 10, aṁśa 1, viṣṇu purāṇa).
Vedic Reference
English
1. Menā in a few passages of the Rigveda denotes ‘woman.’^1
The word is also used in the sense of the ‘female’ of an
animal, either mare^2 or cow.^3
1) Rv. i. 62, 7
95, 6
ii. 39, 2.
2) Rv. i. 121, 2.
3) x. 111, 3.
Cf. Pischel, Indische Studien, 2, 316,
317.
2. Menā^1 or Menakā^2 is mentioned in the Rigveda^3 and in
the Brāhmaṇas^4 as the daughter, or perhaps wife, of Vṛṣaṇaśva.
The meaning of the legend connected with her is quite
unknown. Cf. Maināka or Mainaga.
1) This is the ordinary form of the
name.
2) So Ṣaḍviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, i. 1, where
the masculine form Mena is the epithet
of Vṛṣaṇaśva.
3) Rv. i. 51, 13, where Sāyaṇa tells
the legend from the Śāṭyāyanaka. Cf.
Oertel, Journal of the American Oriental
Society, 16, ccxl.
4) Ṣaḍviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, i. 1
Śata-
patha Brāhmaṇa, iii. 3, 4, 18
Tait-
tirīya Āraṇyaka, i. 12, 3
Lāṭyāyana
Śrauta Sūtra. i. 3, 17.
Cf. Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East,
16, 81, n.
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
मेना,
स्त्री,
 (मान्यते पूज्यते इति । मान पूजायाम्“बहुलमन्यत्रापि ।” उणा० २ । ४६ । इतिइनच् प्रत्ययेन निपातनात् साधुः ।) मेनका ।इति भरतद्बिरूपकोषः ॥
सा पितृकन्या । यथा, “तां मानसीं मेरुसखः पितॄणांकन्यां कुलस्य स्थितये स्थितिज्ञः ।मेनां मुनीनामपि माननीया-मात्मानुरूपां विधिनोपयेमे ॥
”इति कुमारसम्भवे । १ । १८ ॥
* ॥
यथा च, कौर्म्मे १२ अध्याये ।“अग्निस्वात्ता वर्हिषदो द्विधा तेषां व्यवस्थितिः ।तेभ्यः स्वाहा स्वधा जज्ञे मेना वैतरणी तथा ॥
”(स्त्री । यथा, ऋग्वेदे । १ । ६२ । ७ ।“भगो न मेने परमे व्योमन्नधारयद्रोदसी सुदं-साः ।”“मेनेति स्त्रीनाम । मेने स्त्रीरूपमापन्ने रोदसी ।”इति तद्भाष्ये सायणः ॥
* ॥
वृषणश्वकन्या ।यथा, ऋग्वेदे । १ । ५१ । १३ ।“मेना भवो वृषणश्वस्य ।”“हे इन्द्र ! त्वं वृषणश्वस्य एतदाख्यस्य राज्ञोमेना भवः मेनानाम कन्यका भूः ।” इति तद्भाष्येसायणः ॥
* ॥
वाक् । इति निघण्टुः । १ । ११ ॥
“मानपूजायां इत्यस्मात् ‘बहुलमन्यत्रापि इनच्भवति ।’ इति वचनादिनच् । बहुलग्रहणात्नलोपः । पूज्यतेऽनया गुर्व्वादिरुपदेशवाक्येनपूज्या वा देवतात्वात् ।” इति तट्टीकायां देव-राजयज्वा ॥
* ॥
नदीविशेषः । यथा, महा-भारते । ६ । ९ । २३ ।“करिषिणीमसिक्नीञ्च कुशचीरां महानदीम् ।मरुहीं प्रवरां मेनां हेमां घृतवतीं तथा ॥
”)
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
मेना स्त्री मि--न । हिमालयपन्त्याम् पितॄणां मानस्यांकन्यायाम् । “मेनां मुनीनामपि माननीयाम्” कुमा० ।
Capeller
German
मे॑ना
f.
 Weib, Tierweibchen
Frauenname.
Grassman
German
ménā, f. (ob zu man gehörig ?), 1〉 Weib
2〉 das weibliche Thier mit Gen. des männlichen Thieres
3〉 Eigenname eines Weibes. — Vgl. a-mená.
-ā 3〉 (nach Sāy.) {51, 13} 〰 ‿abhavas (indra) vṛṣaṇaśvásya.
-ām 2〉 áśvasya {121, 2}
gós {937, 3}.
-e [du.] 1〉 in Vergleichen: {62, 7} bhágas ná 〰 ‥ ádhārayat ródasī
{95, 6} ubhé bhadré yoṣayete ná 〰
{230, 2} 〰 iva tanúā śúmbhamāne.
Burnouf
French
मेना मेना
f.
 Menā ou Menakā, l'épouse d'Indra,
Vd.
L'épouse d'Himavat et mère de Pārvatī.
Μῆν ou
Μῆνα des Orphiques.
मेनाजा
f.
 (जन्) Pārvatī.