महाशङ्ख

{ mahāśaṅkha }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

A Nāga. Bhāgavata, 10th Skandha says that this Nāga revolves along with the sun in the month of Mārgaśīrṣa.
MAHĀŚAṄKHA I   A crocodile celebrated in the Purāṇas. He had a wife named Śaṅkhinī. The seven children born to Śaṅkhinī became the Maruts in the Svārociṣa Manvantara. There is a story in Chapter 72, Vāmana Purāṇa about these children who became Maruts. Ṛtadhvaja, son of Svārociṣa Manu had seven heroic sons. They went to Mahāmeru and began to worship Brahmā for gaining Indra's place. Indra was alarmed. He sent the Apsarā woman Pūtanā to the sons of Ṛtadhvaja to obstruct their tapas. There was a river flowing by the side of their āśrama. Ṛtadhvaja's sons came to the river to take their bath. Just at that time, Pūtanā also came there and began to take bath. At her sight, the young men had an involuntary emission of semen. Śaṅkhinī, wife of the crocodile Mahāśaṅkha swallowed it. The princes whose tapas was interrupted returned to the palace. Pūtanā returned to Indra and reported the matter. After some years, Śaṅkhinī happened to be caught in a fisherman's net. The fisherman caught her and informed Ṛtadhvaja's sons about his catch. They took her to the palace and put her in a tank there. In due course Śaṅkhinī gave birth to seven children. Immediately after that she attained mokṣa. The children began to cry for mother's milk, moving about in the water. Then Brahmā appeared to them and told them not to cry and assured them that they would become the Devas of “Vāyu Skandha”. He took them up to the sky and put them in Vāyuskandha. These children were the Maruts of the Svārociṣa Manvantara.

नेपाली (Nepali) WN

adjective  सय शङ्ख   Ex. महाशङ्ख वस्तुहरू शायद कसैले देखेको होला

MODIFIES NOUN:

अवस्था तत्त्व क्रिया

ONTOLOGY:

संख्यासूचक (Numeral) ➜ विवरणात्मक (Descriptive) ➜ विशेषण (Adjective)

Wordnet:

ben মহাশঙ্খ

guj મહાશંખ

kan ಮಹಾಶಂಕು

kas مہاشَنٛکھ

kok अंत्य

mal മഹാ ശംഖ്

mni ꯁꯪꯈ꯭ꯆꯥꯃ

pan ਮਹਾਂਸੰਖ

tam லட்சம் பில்லியன்

tel పదికోట్ల పదివేలకోట్లు

urd مہاشنکھ

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

महा—शङ्ख  m.  m. a great conch-shell, [MBh.]

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महा शङ्ख

the temporal bone, [L.]
a human bone, [L.]
a partic. high number (= 10 निखर्वs), [L.]
one of कुबेर's treasures, [L.]
N. of a serpent-demon, [BhP.]
महा—शङ्ख  mn.  mn. the frontal bone, [L.]

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महा शङ्ख

Shabda-Sagara

महाशङ्ख  m.  ( -ङ्खः)
1. A human bone.
2. The forehead.
3. A thousand millions.
4. One of KUVERA'S Nidhis or treasures.
5. A great conch-shell.
E. महा great, शङ्ख a shell, a number, &c.

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महा शङ्ख