Orva | Oर्व | Orva
1. O/rva | O/र्व | m. a descendant of Ūrva, N. of a Ṛṣi, RV. viii, 102, 4; TS. vii; AitBr.; MBh. &c.
(in later mythology he is called Aurva Bhārgava as son of Cyavana and grandson of Bhṛgu; he is the subject of a legend told in MBh. i, 6802; there it is said that the sons of Kṛtavīrya, wishing to destroy the descendants of Bhṛgu in order to recover the wealth left them by their father, slew even the children in the womb; one of the women of the family of Bhṛgu, in order to preserve her embryo, secreted it in her thigh [ūru | ऊरु |], whence the child at its birth was named Aurva; on beholding whom, the sons of Kṛtavīrya were struck with blindness, and from whose wrath proceeded a flame that threatened to destroy the world, had not Aurva at the persuasion of the Bhārgavas cast it into the ocean, where it remained concealed, and having the face of a horse; Aurva was afterwards preceptor to Sagara and gave him the Āgneyāstram, with which he conquered the barbarians who invaded his possessions; cf. vaqavā-muKa | वक़वा-मुKअ |, vaqavāgni | वक़वाग्नि |)
N. of a son of Vasiṣṭha, Hariv.
O/rva | O/र्व | m. pl. N. of a class of Pitṛs, TāṇḍyaBr.; Lāṭy.
O/rva | O/र्व | mfn. produced by or relating to the Ṛṣi Aurva, MBh. i, 387, &c.
O/rva | O/र्व | m. the submarine fire (cast into the ocean by Aurva Bhārgava cf. above).
2. Orva | Oर्व | mf(I)n. (fr. urvī | उर्वी |), relating to the earth, of the earth, VarBṛS.
Orva | Oर्व | n. fossil salt, L.
(in later mythology he is called Aurva Bhārgava as son of Cyavana and grandson of Bhṛgu; he is the subject of a legend told in MBh. i, 6802; there it is said that the sons of Kṛtavīrya, wishing to destroy the descendants of Bhṛgu in order to recover the wealth left them by their father, slew even the children in the womb; one of the women of the family of Bhṛgu, in order to preserve her embryo, secreted it in her thigh [ūru | ऊरु |], whence the child at its birth was named Aurva; on beholding whom, the sons of Kṛtavīrya were struck with blindness, and from whose wrath proceeded a flame that threatened to destroy the world, had not Aurva at the persuasion of the Bhārgavas cast it into the ocean, where it remained concealed, and having the face of a horse; Aurva was afterwards preceptor to Sagara and gave him the Āgneyāstram, with which he conquered the barbarians who invaded his possessions; cf. vaqavā-muKa | वक़वा-मुKअ |, vaqavāgni | वक़वाग्नि |)
N. of a son of Vasiṣṭha, Hariv.
O/rva | O/र्व | m. pl. N. of a class of Pitṛs, TāṇḍyaBr.; Lāṭy.
O/rva | O/र्व | mfn. produced by or relating to the Ṛṣi Aurva, MBh. i, 387, &c.
O/rva | O/र्व | m. the submarine fire (cast into the ocean by Aurva Bhārgava cf. above).
2. Orva | Oर्व | mf(I)n. (fr. urvī | उर्वी |), relating to the earth, of the earth, VarBṛS.
Orva | Oर्व | n. fossil salt, L.