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Word (IAST)Word (Devanagari)Overview
viśvāmṛtaविश्वामृतmfn. (perhaps) immortal for all times, [MaitrUp.]
viśvāmitrāविश्वामित्राviśvā́-mitrā (ā), f. N. of a river, [MBh.]
viśvāmitraविश्वामित्रviśvā—mitra See below.
viśvā́-mitra m. (prob.) ‘friend of all’, N. of a celebrated Ṛṣi or Sage (having the patr. Gāthina, Gādheya, and Jāhnava; he was at first a functionary, together with Vasiṣṭha, of Su-dās, king of the Tṛtsus; seeing V° preferred by the king, he went over to the Bharatas, but could not prevent their being defeated by Su-dās, although he caused the waters of the rivers Vipāś and Śutudrī to retire and so give the Bharatas free passage, [RV. iii, 33]; he was born as a Kṣatriya, deriving his lineage from an ancestor of Kuśika, named Purū-ravas, of the lunar race of kings, and himself sovereign of Kanyā-kubja or Kanoj; his fame rests chiefly on his contests with the great Brāhman Vasiṣṭha, and his success in elevating himself, though a Kṣatriya, to the rank of a Brāhman See [Manu. vii, 42] : the Rāmāyaṇa, which makes him a companion and counsellor of the young Rāma-candra, records [[i, 51]-[65]] how Viśvāmitra, on his accession to the throne, visited Vasiṣṭha's hermitage, and seeing there the cow of plenty [probably typical of go, ‘the earth’], offered him untold treasures in exchange for it, but being refused, prepared to take it by force; a long contest ensued between the king and the saint [symbolical of the struggles between the Kṣatriya and Brāhmanical classes], which ended in the defeat of Viśvāmitra, whose vexation was such that, in order to become a Brāhman and thus conquer his rival, he devoted himself to intense austerities [during which he was seduced by the nymph Menakā and had by her a daughter, Śakuntalā], gradually increasing the rigour of his mortification through thousands of years, till he successively earned the titles of Rājarṣi, Ṛṣi, Maharṣi, and finally Brahmarṣi ; he is supposed to be the author of nearly the whole of [RV. iii], and of [ix, 67, 13]-[15]; [x, 137, 5]; [167]; moreover, a law-book, a Dhanurveda, and a medical wk. are attributed to him), [RV.] &c. &c.
a partic. Catur-aha (= viśvāmitrasya saṃjayaḥ), [PañcavBr.]; [KātyŚr.]
a partic. Anuvāka (= viśvāmitrasyānuvākaḥ), [Pat.]
pl. the family of Viśvāmitra, [RV.]; [AV.]
viśvāmitranadīविश्वामित्रनदीviśvā-mitra—nadī f. N. of a river, [MBh.]
viśvāmitrapurīविश्वामित्रपुरीviśvā-mitra—purī f. N. of a town (°rīya mfn.), [PratijñāS.]
viśvāmitrapuraविश्वामित्रपुरviśvā-mitra—pura n. N. of a town, [PratijñāS.]
viśvāmitrarāśiविश्वामित्रराशिviśvā-mitra—rāśi m. N. of a man, [Inscr.]
viśvāmitrakalpaविश्वामित्रकल्पviśvā-mitra—kalpa m. N. of wk.
viśvāmitrapriyaविश्वामित्रप्रियviśvā-mitra—priya m. ‘dear to Viśvāmitra’, the cocoa-nut tree, [L.]
N. of Kārttikeya, [MBh.]
viśvāmitrasṛṣṭiविश्वामित्रसृष्टिviśvā-mitra—sṛṣṭi f. Viśvāmitra's creation (in allusion to several things fabled to have been created by this saint in rivalry of Brahmā, e.g. the fruit of the Palmyra in imitation of the human skull, the buffalo in imitation of the cow, the ass of the horse &c.), [MW.]
viśvāmitrasmṛtiविश्वामित्रस्मृतिviśvā-mitra—smṛti f. N. of wk.
viśvāmitrapurīyaविश्वामित्रपुरीयviśvā-mitra—purīya mfn.
viśvāmitrasaṃhitāविश्वामित्रसंहिताviśvā-mitra—saṃhitā f. N. of sev. works.
viśvāmitrajamadagniविश्वामित्रजमदग्निviśvā-mitra—jamad-agni m. du. Viśvāmitra and Jamad-agni, [RV.]
viśvāmitrakalpataruविश्वामित्रकल्पतरुviśvā-mitra—kal°pa-taru m. N. of wk.