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शौनक (zaunaka)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
शौनक
m.
 (-कः) The name of an inspired legislator older than MANU.
Capeller Eng
English
शौ॑नक
m.
 patron. of a celebrated grammarian
pl.
 his
descendants or followers,
f.
 ई his work.
Yates
English
शौनक (कः) 1.
m.
 Name of an in-
spired legislator before
Manu.
Wilson
English
शौनक
m.
 (-कः) The name of an inspired legislator older than MANU.
Apte
English
शौनकः [śaunakḥ],
N.
 of a great sage, the reputed author of the Ṛigveda Prātiśākhya and various other Vedic compositions.
Apte 1890
English
शौनकः N. of a great sage, the reputed author of the Ṛgveda Prātiśākhya and various other Vedic compositions.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
शौ॑नक
m.
 (patr.
fr.
 शुनक g. बिदादि)
N.
 of various authors and teachers (also with Indrota and Svaidāyana
esp.
 of the celebrated grammarian, author of the Ṛg-veda Prātiśākhya, the Bṛhad-devatā, and various other works
he is described as the teacher of Kātyāyana and especially of Āśvalāyana
he is said to have united the Bāṣkala and Śākala Śākhās, and is sometimes identified with the Vedic Ṛṣi Gṛtsa-mada
but according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa, Ś° was a son of Gṛtsamada, and originated the system of four castes
he is quoted in
ĀśvŚr.
APrāt.
 &
VPrāt.
the various legends about him are very confused),
ŚBr.
Up.
MBh.
&c.
pl.
 the descendants and pupils of Ś°,
Hariv.
Monier Williams 1872
English
शौनक शौनक, अस्, m., N. of the reputed
author of the Ṛg-veda Prātiśākhya and of certain
Kalpa-sūtras and various other Vedic compositions
and works on law, (he is described as the teacher of
Kātyāyana and especially of Āśvalāyana
he is said
to have united the Bāṣkala and Śākala Śākhās,
and is sometimes identified with the Vedic Ṛṣi
Gṛtsa-mada
but according to the Viṣṇu-Purāṇa,
Śaunaka was a son of Gṛtsa-mada, and originated
the system of four castes
the various legends about
him are very confused.)
—शौनक-कल्प-सूत्र,
अम्, n., N. of certain Kalpa-sūtras (ascribed to
Śaunaka and supposed to have been destroyed by
the author).
—शौनक-गृह्य-सूत्र, अम्, n. the
Gṛhya-sūtras of the Ṛg-veda ascribed to Śaunaka.
—शौनकानुक्रमणी (°क-अन्°), f. an Anukra-
maṇī or Vedic index ascribed to Śaunaka.
—शौन-
कारण्यक (°क-आर्°), अम्, n. an Āraṇyaka ascribed
to Śaunaka (probably identified with the Aitareyā-
raṇyaka).
—शौनकोपनिषद् (°क-उप्°), त्, f., N. of
an Upaniṣad.
Macdonell
English
शौनक śaúnaka,
m.
 pat. (fr. śunaka), esp. 🞄of a celebrated grammarian to whom numerous 🞄(ten) works on the Veda are attributed: 🞄pl. his descendants and his school: ī-ya, 🞄a. composed by Śaunaka.
Benfey
English
शौनक शौनक,
m.
 A proper name,
Man. 3, 16.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
शौनकः
पुं*
 - शुनक + अण्
"एक महर्षि, ऋग्वेद प्रातिशाख्य तथा अन्य अनेक वैदिक रचनाओं के प्रणेता"
L R Vaidya
English
SOnaka {% m. %} Name of a celebrated sage, the reputed author of the Ṛigveda Prātiśākhya.
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
शौनक Quoted in Āśvalāyanaśrautasūtra 12, 8, 35. 10, 2.
15, 14, in Atharvaprātiśākhya 1, 8, in Vājasaneyi-
prātiśākhya 4, 119. A number of tracts, chiefly
vedical, are quite at random attributed to him:
Anuvākānukramaṇī.
Āyuṣyahomapaddhati.
Ārṣānukramaṇī.
Ugrarathaśāntiprayoga.
Udakaśāntipratisarabandhaprayoga.
Upalekhavṛtti.
Ṛgvidhāna.
Ṛgvedaprātiśākhya.
Ṛṣichandonukramaṇikā.
Ekadaṇḍisaṃnyāsavidhi.
Caturādhyāyikā Av.
Jīvacchrāddhaprayoga.
Nāgabali.
Pavamānahomavidhi.
Pādānukramaṇī.
Punarādhānadhāryāgnihotraprayoga.
Bṛhaddevatā.
Vāstuśāntiprayoga.
Vivāhapaṭala.
Viṣṇudharma.
Śānti.
Saṃnyāsavidhi. See Ekadaṇḍisaṃnyāsavidhi.
Sūktānukramaṇī.
Somotpattipariśiṣṭa.
शौनक
Putrapratigrahaprayoga dh.
Abhyankara Grammar
English
शौनक a great ancient Vedic scholar who is believed to have written the Rk. Pratisakhya, which is said to be common for the two main branches of the Rgveda but which at present represents, in fact, all the different branches of the Rgveda.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
°शौनक n. eine Art Coitus, E 593 (D).
Mahabharata
English
Śaunaka^1, a descendant of Bhṛgu, at whose sacrifice Ugraśravas recited the Mhbhr. § 1 (Anukram.): I, 1, 1 (performed a twelve years' sacrifice in the Naimisha wood
Ugraśravas recited the Mhbhr.).--§ 10 (Parvasaṅgr.): I, 2, 303.--§ 18 (Paulomap.): I, 4, ††851, 854, 862.--§ 19 (do., Bhṛgu): I, 5, (863) (the ancestors of Ś. from Bhṛgu to Śunaka, the pūrvapitāmaha of Ś., enumerated).--§ 20 (do., Pulomā): I, 5, (874).--§ 26 (Āstīkap., Jaratkāru): I, 13, (1020) (C. has Sº), (1024) (do.), 1027 (do.).--§ 27 (do., Kaśyapa): I, 16, (1069).--§ 28 (do., Amṛtamanthana): I, 17, 1097 (C. has Sº).--§ 45 (do., Vālikhilya): I, 31, (1436).--§ 46 (do., Garuḍa): I, 34, 1525.--§ 47 (do., Sarpanāmak.): I, 35, (1546).--§ 48 (do., Śesha): I, 36, (1565).--§ 50 (do., Jaratkāru): I, 40, 1655.--§ 51 (do., Parikshit): I, 40, 1659, (1660)
43, 1796.--§ 53 (do., Jaratkāru): I, 46, 1856.--§ 56 (do., Parikshit): I, 49, (1933).--§ 59 (do., Sarpasattra): I, 53, 2041 (C. has Sº)-§ 63 (do., do.): I, 57, (2142).--§ 68 (do., Āstīka): I, 58, (2169).--§ 70 (Ādivaṃśāvatāraṇap.): I, 59, (2198), (2203).-§ 717b (Nārāyaṇīya): XII, 340, 13005
341, (13007)
344, (13304), 13311
347, 13442
348, (13449).-§ 795c (Mahābhārata): XVIII, 5, 201. Cf. Bhārgava, Bhārgavottama, Bhṛguśārdūla, Bhṛgūdvaha, Bhṛgukulodvaha, Bhṛgunandana.
Śaunaka^2, a ṛshi. § 309 (Āraṇyakap.): III, 2, 61 (Yoge Sāṅkhye ca kuśalaḥ), (110) (instructs Yudhishṭhira).--§ 310 (do.): III, 3, 131.--§ 324 (Dvaitavanaprav.): III, 26, 986 (worships Yudhishṭhira).--§ 376 (Tīrthayātrāp.): III, 85, 8264.
Śaunaka^3 = Indrota: XII, 5595 (Iº), 5601 (Iº), 5616, 5621, (5622), 5627, (5628), (5635), 5673 (Iº).
Śaunaka^4. § 736b (Vītahavyop.): XIII, 30, 2005 (son of Śunaka and grandson of Ruru of Vītahavya's race). Cf. Śaunaka^1.
पुराणम्
English
शौनक १ / ŚAUNAKA I .1) General. A renowned ācārya. He is believed to be the author of the famous works--“Ṛgveda Anukramaṇī”, “Āraṇyakam”, “Ṛkprātiśākhya”, etc.
The famous Āśvalāyanācārya was Śaunaka's disciple. Ācāryas like kātyāyana, patañjali and vyāsa belonged to his class. Śaunaka's real name was “Gṛtsamada”. It was because he was the son of śunaka that he got the name “Śaunaka”.2) Birth. Śaunahotra, the son of the sage Śunahotra, once performed a yāga. indra attended that yāga. At that time Śaunahotra rescued indra from an attack of the Asuras. indra who was pleased at this, blessed Śaunahotra that he would be born in his next birth in the bhṛgu family under the name “Śaunaka”.3) Genealogy In vāyu purāṇa his genealogy is given in two forms.
i) ruru (pramadvarā)-śunaka-śaunaka-ugraśravas
ii) Dharmavṛddha--Śunahotra--gṛtsamada-śunaka--śaunaka. (vāyu purāṇa, 92, 26).4) Important works. śaunaka is believed to be the author of numerous works. The most important of them are given below:--(1) Ṛkprātiśākhya (2) Ṛgvedacchandānukramaṇī (3) Ṛgvedarṣyanukramaṇī (4) ṛgveda Anuvākānukramaṇī (5) Ṛgvedasūktānukramaṇī (6) Ṛgvedakathānu- kramaṇī (7) Ṛgvedapādavidhāna (8) Bṛhaddevatā (9) Śaunakasmṛti (10) Caraṇavyūha and (11) Ṛgvidhāna. matsya purāṇa, Chapter 252 mentions that śaunaka had written a work on the science of architecture.5) Disciples. The chief disciple of śaunaka was āśvalāyana. Once āśvalāyana wrote and dedicated to his guru (master) two treatises entitled “Gṛhyasūtra” and “Śrautasūtra” to please him. After reading it, śaunaka destroyed his own work on “Śrautaśāstra”. āśvalāyana wrote his treatise after having studied the ten works of śaunaka on ṛgveda.
kātyāyana, the disciple of āśvalāyana later received the ten books written by śaunaka and the three books written by āśvalāyana. kātyāyana gave his disciple patañjali, the two works, “Yajurvedakalpasūtra” and “Sāmaveda Upagrantha” which were written by himself. From this we may infer that the series of Śaunaka's disciples was as follows:--śaunaka--āśvalāyana-kātyāyana--patañjali--vyāsa.
शौनक २ / ŚAUNAKA II. A brāhmaṇa who went to the forest with yudhiṣṭhira. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 2).
Vedic Reference
English
Śaunaka, ‘descendant of Śunaka, ’ is a common patronymic.
It is applied to Indrota^1 and Svaidāyana.^2 A Śaunaka appears
as a teacher of Rauhiṇāyana in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad.^3
A Śaunaka-yajña, or Śaunaka sacrifice, occurs in the Kauṣitaki
Brāhmaṇa.^4 In the Chāndogya Upaniṣad^5 Atidhanvan
Śaunaka appears as a teacher. That Upaniṣad^6 and the
Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa^7 mention a Śaunaka Kāpeya
who was a contemporary of Abhipratārin Kākṣaseni, whose
Purohita Śaunaka was according to another passage^8 of the
latter Upaniṣad. In the Sūtras, the Bṛhaddevatā, etc., a
Śaunaka appears as a great authority on grammatical, ritual,
and other matters.^9
1) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xiii. 5, 3, 5
4, 1.
2) Ibid., xi. 4, 1, 2.
3) ii. 5, 20
iv. 5, 26 Mādhyaṃdina.
4) iv. 7.
5) i. 9, 3.
6) iv. 3, 5. 7.
7) iii. 1, 21.
8) i. 59, 2.
9) Cf. Weber, Indian Literature, 24,
32-34, 49, 54, 56, 59, 62, 85, 143
Macdonell, Bṛhaddevatā, 1, xxiii
Keith,
Aitareya Āraṇyaka, 18, 19, 297.
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
शौनकः,
पुं,
 (शुनकस्यापत्यमिति । शुनक + “अनृ-ष्यानन्तर्थे विदादिभ्योऽञ्” । ४ । १ । १०४ ।इति अञ् । मुनिविशेषः । यथा, --“सपिण्डीकरणादूर्द्ध्वं न दद्यात् प्रतिमासिकम् ।एकोद्दिष्टविधानेन दद्यादित्याह शौनकः ॥
”इति तिथ्यादितत्त्वम् ॥
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
शौनक
पु०
 शुनकस्यापत्यम् अण् । सुनिमेदे “नैमिषेऽनिमिष-क्षत्रे ऋषयः शौनकभदयः” इति भागवतम् १ । १ ।
Capeller
German
शौ॑नक
m.
 patr. N., bes. eines berühmten
Grammatikers.
Burnouf
French
शौनक शौनक
m.
 np. d'une famille d'écrivains védiques.
Stchoupak
French
शौनक-
m.
 patron. de divers personnages
(not. d'un
grammairien, auteur du ṚgVedaPrātiśākhya, de la Bṛhaddevatā, etc.).