Sanskrit Dictionary

Select your preferred input and type any Sanskrit or English word. Enclose the word in “” for an EXACT match e.g. “yoga”.

Monier-Williams Search

5 results for purukutsa

purukutsa

m. Name of a man

purukutsa

m. of a descendant of ikṣvāku-

purukutsa

m. of a son of māndhātṛ-

purukutsa

m. of another man

purukutsava

m. Name of an enemy of indra-

Macdonell Search

1 result


daurgaha	m. pat. of Purukutsa.

Vedic Index of
Names and Subjects

1 result1 result

purukutsa

Is the name of a king who is mentioned several times in the Rigveda. In one passage he is mentioned as a contemporary of Sudās, but whether as a foe, according to Ludwig, or merely as a contemporary, according to Hillebrandt, is uncertain. In two other passages he is mentioned as victorious by divine favour, and in another he appears as a king of the Pūrus and a conqueror of the Dāsas. His son was Trasadasyu, who is accordingly called Paurukutsya or Paurukutsi. Different conclusions have been drawn from one hymn of the Rigveda in which the birth of Purukutsa’s son, Trasadasyu, is mentioned. The usual interpretation is that Purukutsa was killed in battle or captured, whereupon his wife secured a son to restore the fortunes of the Pūrus. But Sieg offers a completely different interpretation. According to him the word daurgahe, which occurs in the hymn, and which in the ordinary view is rendered descendant of Durgaha,' an ancestor of Purukutsa, is the name of a horse, the hymn recording the success of an Aśvamedha (‘horse sacrifice’) undertaken by Purukutsa for his wife, as by kings in later times, to secure a son. This interpretation is supported by the version of daurgahe given in the śatapatha, but is by no means certain. Moreover, if Purukutsa was a contemporary of Sudās, the defeat of the Pūrus by Sudās in the Dāśarājña might well have been the cause of the troubles from which Purukutsānī, by the birth of Trasadasyu, rescued the family. In the śatapatha Brāhmana Purukutsa is called an Aiksvāka.

Vedabase Search

1 result


purukutsam	Purukutsa	SB 9.6.38

DCS with thanks

1 result


purukutsa	noun (masculine) name of a descendant of Ikṣvāku (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) name of a man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) name of a son of Māndhātṛ (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) name of another man (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 13633/72933

Wordnet Search

"purukutsa" has 2 results.

purukutsa

purukutsaḥ

harivaṃśe varṇitaḥ ekaḥ sūryavaṃśī rājā।

purukutsaḥ māndhātuḥ putraḥ āsīt।

purukutsa

purukutsaḥ

ekaḥ puruṣaḥ ।

purukutsasya ullekhaḥ ṛgvede vartate

Help

Credits