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वितस्ता (vitastA)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
वितस्ता
f.
 (-स्ता) Name of a river in the Punjāb, known to the Greeks
as the Hydaspes and now called the Jhelum.
Capeller Eng
English
वित॑स्ता
f.
N.
 of a river (Hydaspes).
Apte
English
वितस्ता [vitastā],
N.
 of a river in the Punjab called Hydaspes by the Greeks and now called Jhelum or Betustā.
Apte 1890
English
वितस्ता N. of a river in the Punjab called Hydaspes by the Greeks and now called Jhelum or Betustā.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वि-तस्ता a
f.
 See below
वि-त॑स्ता b
f.
N.
 of a river in the Panjāb (now called Jhelum or Bitasta or Bihat
=
 the Hydaspes or Bidaspes [Ptolemy] of the Greeks
it rises in Kaśmīr
cf.
 पञ्च-नद),
RV.
MBh.
&c.
 (-त्व
n.
 ,
Rājat.
 )
=
 वि-तस्ति (in त्रि-वितस्त॑, q.v.)
Monier Williams 1872
English
वितस्ता वितस्ता, f., N. of a river in the
Pañjāb, now called Jhelum or Betusta or Behut (the
Hydaspes of the Greeks
cf. पञ्च-नद).
Macdonell
English
वितस्ता vi-tástā,
f.
 N. of a river in the Panjāb, 🞄the Hydaspes of the Greeks, the modern 🞄Jhelum: -adri,
m.
 N. of a mountain.
Benfey
English
वितस्ता वितस्ता,
f.
 The name of a
river, Rājat. 5, 88
271.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
वितस्ता
स्त्री*
 - -
पंजाब की एक नदी जिसको यूनानी hydaspes कहते हैं तथा जो आजकल `झेलम्' या `वितस्ता' के नाम से विख्यात है
L R Vaidya
English
vitastA {% f. %} Name of a river in the Panjab, known to the Greeks as the Hydaspes and now called the Jhelem.
Wordnet
Sanskrit
Synonyms:
 वितस्ता, झेलम
noun
भारतस्य काश्मिरप्रान्ते वर्तमाना एका प्रमुखा नदी।
"वितस्ता पञ्जाबकाश्मिरादिषु प्रवहति।"
Mahabharata
English
Vitastā, a river. § 268 (Varuṇasabhāv.): II, 9, 372 (present in the palace of Varuṇa).--§ 358 (Tīrthayātrāp.): III, 82, 5031, 5032 (bhavanaṃ Takshakasya…Vºākhyaṃ). --§ 410 (Plakshāvataraṇag.): III, 130, 10555.--§ 459 (Mārkaṇḍeyas.): III, 188, 12910 (seen in the stomach of Nārāyaṇa).--§ 565 (Gālavacarita): V, 119, 4009 (only B.). --§ 574 (Jambūkh.): VI, 9, 324.--§ 607 (Karṇap.): VIII, 44, 2055.--§ 733b (Candrabhāgā): XIII, 25, 1694 (ūrmimālinīṃ).--§ 768b (Umā-Maheśvarasaṃv.): XIII, 146, 6764.--§ 775 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 166, 7651.
पुराणम्
English
वितस्ता / VITASTĀ. A river famous in the Purāṇas. Mention is made about this river in ṛgveda. Important rivers mentioned in ṛgveda are, kubhā, sindhu, suvāstu vitastā, Asiknī, Paruṣṇī, śatadrū, sarasvatī and yamunā. These rivers were more important than the Ganges in those days. Mention is made about the Ganges only once in ṛgveda. Perhaps the Āryans were not acquainted with the Gangetic basin in those days. The region from the rivers kubhā to yamunā was Āryadeśa (the country of the Āryans). The information about this river vitastā given in mahābhārata is given below:--(i) The river vitastā is the same river as Jhelum in Kashmir. The deity (goddess) of this river stays in the palace of varuṇa and praises him. (M.B. Sabhā Parva, Chapter 9, Stanza 19).(ii) By worshipping the Devatās and the Manes after taking bath in this river, one could obtain the fruits of performing the sacrifice vājapeya. In Kashmir, takṣaka the King of the Nāgas has a famous palace known as Vitasta. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 82, Stanza 39).(iii) Once four hundred horses with black ears, owned by Brahmins were caught in the current of this river and carried away. (M.B. Udyoga Parva, Chapter 119, Stanza 8).(iv) If anybody bathes in the waves of the river vitastā, with vow and fasts, for seven days he would become as pure as a hermit. (M.B. anuśāsana parva, Chapter 25, Stanza 7).(v) Once pārvatī made a speech before śiva on the duties of women, after receiving advice from rivers. The river vitastā was one of the rivers which advised pārvatī. (M.B. anuśāsana parva, Chapter 146, Stanza 18).
Vedic Reference
English
Vitastā, the most westerly of the five rivers of the Panjab, is
only mentioned in the Rigveda^1 in the Nadīstuti (‘Praise of
Rivers’).^2 It is the Hydaspes of Alexander's historians, more
correctly reproduced by Ptolemy as Bidaspes. The name
appears in the Mohammedan historians corrupted to Bihat or
Wihat, and survives in the modern Kashmīrī form of Veth.
1) x. 75, 5
Nirukta, ix. 26
cf. Kāśikā
Vṛtti on Pāṇini, i. 4, 31. Cf. Zimmer,
Altindisches Leben, 12
Imperial Gazetteer
of India, 14, 160.
2) The rareness of the name in the
Rigveda points to the Panjab not
having been the seat of the activity of
the greater part of the Vedic Indians.
Capeller
German
वितस्ता
f.
 N. eines Flusses (Hydaspes).
Grassman
German
vitástā, f., Eigenname eines Flusses im Fünfstromland neben der asiknī́ [wol von taṃs m. ví].
-ayā {901, 5} neben asikniā́.
Stchoupak
French
वितस्ता-
f.
n.
 d'une rivière (Hydaspes des Grecs, mod. Jhelum ou
Bihat).
वितस्ताख्य- nt. résidence du Nāga Takṣaka dans le Cachemire.