triṣaṇku | त्रिषण्कु | triSaNku
tri—ṣaṇku | त्रि—षण्कु | m. N. of a sage, TUp. i, 10
of a king of Ayodhyā (aspiring to ascend to heaven in his mortal body, he first requested Vasiṣṭha to perform a great sacrifice for him; on Vasiṣṭha's refusing he applied to Vasiṣṭha's hundred sons, who cursed and degraded him to the rank of a Caṇḍāla [hence called a Caṇḍāla king, Divyāv. xxxiii]; Viśvā-mitra then undertook the sacrifice for him and invited all the gods, who declined to come and thereby so enraged the sage that, by his own power, he transported T˚ to heaven; on his being hurled down again head foremost by the gods, he was arrested in his course by Viśvā-mitra and remained suspended in the sky, forming the southern cross constellation, R. i, 57 ff. (R. G. i, 59) [son of Pṛthu]; Hariv. 730 ff. & VP. iv, 3, 13 f. [son of Trayyāruṇa]; [son of Tri-bandhana] BhP. ix, 7), MBh. i, xiii &c.
a cat, L.
the civet-cat, Npr.
a grasshopper, L.
a fire-fly, L.
= ˚ṇKa | ˚ण्Kअ |, L.
N. of a mythical mountain, Divyāv. viii, 293 ff.
tri—ṣaṇku | त्रि—षण्कु | f. N. of a mythical river, 223 and 295
(˚kukā | ˚कुका |), 298
tri—ṣaṇku | त्रि—षण्कु | m. pl. N. of thorns, 293
of a king of Ayodhyā (aspiring to ascend to heaven in his mortal body, he first requested Vasiṣṭha to perform a great sacrifice for him; on Vasiṣṭha's refusing he applied to Vasiṣṭha's hundred sons, who cursed and degraded him to the rank of a Caṇḍāla [hence called a Caṇḍāla king, Divyāv. xxxiii]; Viśvā-mitra then undertook the sacrifice for him and invited all the gods, who declined to come and thereby so enraged the sage that, by his own power, he transported T˚ to heaven; on his being hurled down again head foremost by the gods, he was arrested in his course by Viśvā-mitra and remained suspended in the sky, forming the southern cross constellation, R. i, 57 ff. (R. G. i, 59) [son of Pṛthu]; Hariv. 730 ff. & VP. iv, 3, 13 f. [son of Trayyāruṇa]; [son of Tri-bandhana] BhP. ix, 7), MBh. i, xiii &c.
a cat, L.
the civet-cat, Npr.
a grasshopper, L.
a fire-fly, L.
= ˚ṇKa | ˚ण्Kअ |, L.
N. of a mythical mountain, Divyāv. viii, 293 ff.
tri—ṣaṇku | त्रि—षण्कु | f. N. of a mythical river, 223 and 295
(˚kukā | ˚कुका |), 298
tri—ṣaṇku | त्रि—षण्कु | m. pl. N. of thorns, 293