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शंतनु (zaMtanu)

 
Capeller Eng
English
शं॑तनु
a.
 beneficial to the body or person (abstr.
शंतनुत्व॑)
m.
N.
 of an ancient king etc.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
शं॑—तनु (शं॑-),
mfn.
 wholesome for the body or the person (-त्व॑
n.
 ),
TS.
शं॑—तनु
m.
 (also written शांतनु)
N.
 of an ancient king with the patr. Kauravya (he was fourteenth descendant of Kuru, son of Pratīpa and younger brother of Devāpi, and usurped the sovereignty whilst the latter became a hermit
he married Gaṅgā and Satya-vatī
by the former he had a son named Bhīṣma, and by the latter Citrāṅgada and Vicitravīrya
cf.
IW.
 375),
RV.
MBh.
Hariv.
&c.
(with चक्र-वर्तिन्)
N.
 of an author (son of Uddharaṇa, of the Tomara race),
Cat.
Macdonell
English
शंतनु śáṃ-tanu,
a.
 wholesome for the body
🞄m. N. (RV., Br., C.): -tanūja,
m.
 son of 🞄Śaṃtanu, pat. of Bhīṣma.
Vedic Reference
English
Śaṃ-tanu is the hero of a tale told by Yāska, ^1 and often
found later.^2 He supersedes his elder brother Devāpi as king
of the Kurus. When his improper deed brings on a prolonged
drought in his realm, he is compelled to ask his brother to
assume the kingship
Devāpi, however, refuses, but instead
performs a sacrifice which produces rain. Sieg^3 endeavours to
trace this story in the Rigveda, ^4 but all that is there stated is
that Devāpi Ārṣṭiṣeṇa obtained (no doubt as priest) rain for
Śaṃtanu (no doubt a king). There is no hint of relationship
at all.
1) Nirukta, ii. 10.
2) Bṛhaddevatā, vii. 155 et seq., with
Macdonell's notes
Sieg, Die Sagenstoffe
des Ṛgveda, 129 et seq.
3) Loc. cit.
4) x. 98.
Capeller
German
शंतनु der Person heilsam (Abstr.
°त्व॑
n.
 )
m.
 N. eines alten Königs.
Grassman
German
śáṃ-tanu, m., Eigenname eines Mannes (ursprünglich „der Person heilsam“).
-ave {924, 1}. _{924, 3}. _{924, 7}.
Stchoupak
French
शंतनु-
v. 3 शम्-।