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śaṃtanu

śáṃ—tanu (śáṃ-), mfn. wholesome for the body or the person (-tvá n.), [TS.]

śáṃ—tanu m. (also written śāṃtanu) 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 cakra-vartin) N. of an author (son of Uddharaṇa, of the Tomara race), [Cat.]