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जन्तु

   { jantuḥ, jantu }
Script: Devanagari

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Puranic Encyclopaedia  | English  English
JANTU   
1) General information.
A King of the Pūru dynasty. It is mentioned in [Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 278] , that he was the son of the King Somaka and father of the King Vṛṣatanu.
2) Jantu born again.
Somaka had hundred wives. But only one of them gave birth to a child. That child was Jantu. He was a pet of all the hundred wives. Once Jantu was bitten by an ant. All the hundred queens began crying and shouting and all ran to him. Hearing the tumult in the women's apartment of the palace, the King and the minister ran to that place. When the tumult was over the King began to think. “It is better to have no sons at all, than to have only one son. There are hundred queens. But none of them bears a child. Is there a solution for this?” At last the King summoned his family-priests and consulted them. The decision of the priests was that if the King should sacrifice his only son, then all his wives would become pregnant and all would give birth to children, and that among the sons thus born, Jantu also would be reborn. The mother of Jantu did not look at this project with favour. “How can we be sure that Jantu also will be there among the sons to be born, after his death?” She was worried by this thought. The priests consoled her and said that there will be a golden mole on the left flank of Jantu. Finally the mother agreed to their plan. Sacrificial dais was arranged. Sacrificial fire for holy offerings was prepared. The priests tore the child into pieces and offered them as oblation in the fire. When the sacrifice was finished, all the hundred queens became pregnant. Each of them gave birth to a child. As the priests had predicted, there was a golden mole on the left flank of the child delivered by the mother of Jantu. [M.B. Vana Parva, Chapters 127 and 128] .

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हिन्दी (hindi) WN | Hindi  Hindi
See : जंतु, कीटाणु, जंतु

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नेपाली (Nepali) WN | Nepali  Nepali
noun  त्यो जीवधारी जसमा स्वैच्छिक गति हुन्छ   Ex. पृथ्वमा अनेकौं प्रकारका जन्तु पाइन्छन्
ABILITY VERB:
जानु कराउनु
HOLO MEMBER COLLECTION:
चिडियाखाना बथान सरकस
HYPONYMY:
मेरूदण्डी प्राणी शाकाहारी जन्तु मांसाहारी जन्तु लार्भा प्रतियोगी भाले पोथी अनुकर्ता साथी चेक जङ्गली पशु हिंसक नकल गर्ने असहाय खोज्ने मूक प्राणी
ONTOLOGY:
जन्तु (Fauna)सजीव (Animate)संज्ञा (Noun)
SYNONYM:
जंतु प्राणी जीव जानवर जीवधारी
Wordnet:
asmজীৱ
bdजिबि
benজীব
gujપ્રાણી
hinजंतु
kanಪ್ರಾಣಿ
kasزُوزٲژ
kokजीव
malജീവി
marप्राणी
mniꯊꯋꯥꯏ꯭ꯄꯥꯟꯕ꯭ꯖꯤꯕ
oriଜୀବ
panਜੰਤੂ
sanप्राणी
tamவிலங்கு
telజంతువు
urdحیوان , جانور , ذی حیات , جاندار

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A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English
जन्तु  m. m. a child, offspring, [RV.] ; [Kathās. iic, 58]
सर्व ज्°   a creature, living being, man, person (the sg. also used collectively e.g., ‘everybody’ [Śak. v, 5/6] ; अयं जन्तुः, ‘the man’ [KaṭhUp. ii, 20] ; [ŚvetUp. iii, 20] ; [Mn. xii, 99] ), [RV.] ; [Mn.] &c.
a kinsman, servant, [RV. i, 81, 9 and 94, 5; x, 140, 4]
any animal of the lowest organisation, worms, insects, [Mn. vi, 68 f.] ; [MBh. xiv, 1136] ; [Suśr.]
(n.), [HYog. iii, 53 and] ; [Subh.]
a tree, [Gal.]
N. of a son of सोमक, [MBh. iii, 10473ff.] ; [Hariv. 1793] ; [BhP. ix, 22, 1] ; [Kathās. xiii, 58ff]
क्षिति   cf.-, क्षुद्र-, जल-.

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जन्तुः [jantuḥ]   [जन्-तुन्]
A creature, a living being, man; [Ś.5.2;] [Ms.3.77.]
The (individual) soul.
An animal of the lowest organization.
People, mankind.
Comp. कम्बुः a snail's shell.
a snail.
घ्नः the citron.
-फलः   the Udumbara tree.

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Shabda-Sagara | Sanskrit  English
जन्तु  m.  (-न्तुः) Any animal, any being endowed with animal life; it is more usually applied however to beings of the lowest organiza- tion.
E. जन् to be born, तुन् Unadi aff.
ROOTS:
जन् तुन्

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