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वालखिल्य (vAlakhilya)

 
Capeller Eng
English
वालखिल्य
a.
 (w. मन्त्रास् or ऋचस्)
cert.
 hymns of
the Rigveda
m.
pl.
 a class of dwarfish Ṛṣis.
Apte
English
वालखिल्यः [vālakhilyḥ], 1 See बालखिल्य
Rām.*
 3.6.2. -ल्यम्
N.
 of a collection of 11 hymns of the ऋग्वेद.
Apte 1890
English
वालखिल्य See बालखिल्य.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वालखिल्य
n.
 (also written बाल्°, of doubtful derivation)
N.
 of a collection of 11 (accord. to some only 6 or 8) hymns of the Ṛg-veda (commonly inserted after viii, 48, but numbered separately as a supplement by some editors
they are also called वालखिल्याः, with or
scil.
 मन्त्राः, or ऋचः, and दशती वालखिल्यका),
Br.
ŚrS.
&c.
(°ल्य॑)
pl.
N.
 of a class of Ṛṣis of the size of a thumb (sixty thousand were produced from Brahmā's body and surround the chariot of the sun),
TĀr.
MBh.
Kāv.
&c.
Monier Williams 1872
English
वालखिल्य वालखिल्य, अम्, n. a collection
of eleven additional or apocryphal hymns inserted
between the forty-eighth and forty-ninth hymns of
the eighth Maṇḍala of the Ṛg-veda
[cf. बाल-
खिल्य।]
Macdonell
English
वालखिल्य vāla-khilya,
a.
 with mantrāḥ or 🞄rikah, a term applied to the eleven hymns 🞄inserted after RV. VIII, 48:
pl.
 or
n.
 sg. the 🞄section comprising these hymns
m.
pl.
 a 🞄class of Ṛṣis of the size of a thumb and 🞄connected with the sun.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
वालखिल्य
पुं*
 - -
"ब्रह्मा के रोम से उत्पन्न, अंगूठे के समान आकारवली दिव्य मूर्तियाँ (जो गिनती में साठ हजार समझी जाती हैं )"
Mahabharata
English
Vālakhilya, pl. (ºāḥ) (C. mostly Vāliº, or Bālaº, or Bāliº), certain pigmy ṛshis. § 43 (Garuḍa): I, 29, 1386, 1392, 1398, 1399.--§ 44 (do.): I, 31, 1423.--§ 45 (cf. Āstīkap.): Śaunaka asked some questions on the omens foreboding fear (cf. § 44). Sauti related (“as described in the Parāṇa”): Once when Kaśyapa was sacrificing from desire of offspring, assisted by the ṛshis, gods, and Gandharvas, Indra, who had been appointed to bring the sacrificial fuel together with the V. and the other deities insulted the V., whose bodies were of the size of a thumb, all together carrying one single stalk of a palāśa leaf (butea frondosa), and much afflicted when sunk in the water collected in the footstep of a cow. The V. then sacrificed to effect that there should be another Indra. Indra repaired to Kaśyapa
he reminded them that Brahmán himself had made Indra the lord of the three worlds
the V. then declared that their effort had also been meant for the son wished for by him. Meanwhile Aruṇa and Garuḍa were begotten and destined by Kaśyapa to become the brothers and helpmates of Indra (I, 31): I, 31, 1436, 1441, 1451, 1456, (1457), 1462.--§ 133 (Dushyanta): I, 70, 2863.--§ 134 (Viśvāmitra): I, 71, †2933.--§ 246 (Sundopasundop.): I, 211, 7683.--§ 270 (Brahmasabhāv.): II, 11, 437, 468 (ṛshayaḥ, in the palace of Brahmán).-§ 310b (Sūrya): III, 3, 174.--§ 377 (Dhaumyatīrthak.): III, 90, 8381 (ṛshibhiḥ, performed a sacrifice on the Sarasvatī).--§ 383 (Paraśurāma): III, 99, 8675 (ṛshayaḥ). --§ 406 (Tīrthayātrāp.): III, 106, 10413.--§ 421b (ĀkāśaGaṅgā): III, 142, 10903.--§ 602 (Droṇavadhap.): VII, 190, 8728.--§ 615h (Naimisha): IX, 37, 2166.--§ 615u (Skanda): IX, 45, 2510.--§ 641f (Pṛthu Vainya): XII, 59, 2232 (counsellors of Pṛthu).--§ 656 (Khaḍgotpattik.): XII, 166, 6143.--§ 677 (Mokshadh.): XII, 245, 8903. --§ 717b (Nārāyaṇīya): XII, 349, II), 13564 (ṛshīn).-§ 726 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 10, 442.--§ 730 (do.): XIII, 14, 681 (disregarded by Indra, the V. gratified Śiva, who granted them that they should create a bird that would rob the amṛta from Indra, cf. § 45).--§ 730g (Upamanyu): XIII, 14, 713 (nadīṃ…Vºair nishevitāṃ).--§ 747b (Suvarṇotpatti): XIII, 85, 4124 (their origin).--§ 751b (Śapathavidhi): XIII, 94, †4551, (4585).--§ 761 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 115, 5604.--§ 768b (Umā-Maheśvarasaṃv.): XIII, 141, 6488 (ºgaṇe, B. ºgaṇaiḥ), 6489 (sūryamaṇḍale), 6490 (description).--§ 775 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 166, 7639.
Vālakhilya = Mahāpurusha (Mahāpurushastava).
Vedic Reference
English
Vāla-khilya is the term applied in the Brāhmaṇas^1 to the
supplementary hymns inserted after Rigveda viii. 48. The
Ṛṣis of these hymns are so named in the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka.^2
Cf. 2. Khila.
1) Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, v. 15, 1, 3, 4
vi. 24, 1. 4. 5. 10. 11
Kauṣītaki Brāh-
maṇa, xxx. 4. 8
Pañcaviṃśa Brāh-
maṇa, xiii. 11, 3
xiv. 5, 4
Aitareya
Āraṇyaka, v. 2, 4, etc.
Gopatha
Brāhmaṇa, ii. 6, 9.
2) i. 23.
Cf. Max Müller, Ancient Sanskrit
Literature, 220
Sacred Books of the
East, 32, xlvi et seq.
Bṛhaddevatā,
vi. 84 et seq., with Macdonell's notes
Scheftelowitz, Die Apokryphen des
Ṛgveda, 35 et seq.
Capeller
German
वालखिल्य Bez. gew. Rigvedahymmen.
Stchoupak
French
वालखिल्य-
m.
pl.
 certaine catégorie d'Ṛṣi de très petite taille
nt.
n.
 d'un groupe d'hymnes, du ṚgVeda.