वेन

{ vēna, vena }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

VENA I   An ancient King who was notorious for his bad rule.
1) Genealogy.
Descended from Viṣṇu in the following order: Brahmā-Svāyambhuva Manu-Uttānapāda- Dhruva-Śiṣṭi-Ripu-Cākṣuṣa Manu-Kuru-Aṅga-Vena.
2) Birth.
Ten sons including Kuru, were born to Manu Cākṣuṣa by his wife Naḍvalā. Āgneyī, the wife of Kuru gave birth to six sons Aṅga and others. Aṅga married Sunīthā. The son Vena was born by Sunīthā. It is mentioned in [Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Aṁśa 1, Chapter 13] , that Sunīthā, the mother of Vena was the eldest daughter of Yama, and in [Vāmana Purāṇa Chapter 47] , that this Sunīthā was the daughter born to Kāla and Mṛtyu. Vena who was born as the son of the daughter of Yama was born a wicked man because of the badness of his grandfather. Vena grew up as a great sinner. A story occurs in ) [Padma Purāṇa] about an incident which caused Vena to become a great sinner. The story says that Sunīthā was the mother of Vena. In her play she used to imitate her father's job which was hurting others. One day when she went to the forest for play with her maids she saw Suśaṅkha the son of a Gandharva named Gītakolāhala. That youth who was handsome in every part of his body, was doing penance meditating on the goddess Sarasvatī for the attainment of the art of music. Sunīthā began to annoy him daily. Suśaṅkha bore this annoyance patiently. He said only this-“Go away, go away.” But she did not pay heed to his appeals. Once she became angry and struck him. Getting angry at this, Suśaṅkha called out, “You wicked girl! Why do you annoy me? You have beaten me, who am engaged in penance, for no cause.” That righteous Gandharva youth curbed his anger considering that she was a woman. She told him “My father will beat everybody in the three worlds. He will harm the wicked, and will not do any harm to the good. So he rules the country righteously.” Sunīthā told all about the story to her father. Though Yama, the incarnation of righteousness, heard all that his daughter said he did not give any reply. She again went to the forest and struck him with a whip. Suśaṅka rose up, shivering with pain and cursed her thus: “You wicked girl! When you become a house-holder and join your husband you will get a son who will be a scoffer of Devas and Brahmins and an all-round sinner.” Thus cursing her he continued his penance. Vena was born according to this curse.
3) The wicked rule of Vena.
The hermits anointed Vena as the King. He became lord of the whole earth. He made a proclamation thus:--“Sacrifice is prohibited. Giving alms, is prohibited. Offerings of no kind should be made. Who else, other than I, can be the Yajñapuruṣa? (the deity who eats the food of sacrifice)? I am the only lord and consumer of sacrifices.” Hearing this proclamation, the hermits approached him and told him that the Vedas were the basis of righteousness, that sacrifices were ordained in them, and that if no sacrifice was performed the Devas would not be pleased and so on. But this did not make any change in his behaviour. The hermits became angry. They all gathered together and recited spells and struck him with Darbha (poa) grass and killed him. As there was no King the world fell into darkness. Because of the troubles caused by plunderers, people gathered round the hermits. Hermits joined together and churned the left hand of Vena, from which a man of short stature came out, to whom the hermits said, ‘Niṣīda’ (sit). Because the hermits said Niṣīda’, Niṣāda came into existence from that dwarf born of the sins of Vena. Then the hermits churned the right hand of Vena. At this churning a person as big as a mountain with divine signs came out. He had bow and arrows and in his palm there were marks of a wheel and flag. Seeing this the Devas anointed him the King of the earth. He ruled righteously and brought the goddess earth (Pṛthvī) who had estranged herself from his father Vena close to him. Because he had conciliated Pṛthvī he became famous as a King. [Vāmana Purāṇa, Chapter 47] .
VENA II   One of the ten sons of Vaivasvata Manu. [Mahābhārata, Ādi Parva, Chapter 75, Stanza 15] .

प्राचीन चरित्रकोश

वेन n.  (स्वा. उत्तान.) अंग देश का एक दुष्टकर्मा राजा, जो अंग एवं मृत्यु की मानसकन्या सुनीथा का पुत्र था । भागवत में इसे तेईसवाँ वेदव्यास कहा गया है । महाभारत में कर्दमपुत्र अनंग को इसका पिता कहा गया है [म. शा. ५९.९६-९९] ।
वेन n.  यह शुरू से ही दुर्वत्त था । यह अपने मातामह मृत्यु (अधर्म) के घर में पालपोस कर बड़ा हुआ था । इसके दुष्ट कर्मों के कारण, त्रस्त हो कर इसका पिता अंगदेश छोड़ कर चला गया। राज्यपद प्राप्त होते ही इसने यज्ञयागादि सारे कर्म बंद करवाये। यह स्वयं को ईश्र्वर का अवतार कहलाता था । इसके दुश्र्चरित्र के कारण, ऋषियों ने इसका वध किया [म. शां. ५९.१००] ।
वेन n.  इसकी मृत्यु के पश्र्चात्, अंगवंश निर्वेश न हो इस हेतु इसकी माता सुनीथा ने इसके मृतशरीर का दोहन करवाया। इसके दाहिनी जाँध की मंथन से निषाद नामक एक कृष्णवर्णीय नाटा पुरुष उत्पन्न हुआ, जिससे आगे चल कर निषाद जाति-समूह के लोग उत्पन्न हुए। आगे चल कर ऋषियोंने इसके दाहिने हाथ का मंथन किया, जिससे पृथु वैन्य नामक चक्रवर्ति राजा उत्पन्न हुआ, जो साक्षात् विष्णु का अवतार था [म. शां. ५९.१०६] । ऋषियों के द्वारा वेन का वध होने की, एवं इसके दाहिने हाथ के मंथन से पृथु वैन्य का जन्म होने की कथा सभी पुराणों में प्राप्त है [ह. वं. १.५.३-१६] ; [वायु. ६२.१०७-१२५] ; [भा. ४.१४] ; [विष्णुधर्म. १.१०८, १.१३, ७.२९] ; [ब्रह्म. ४] ; [मत्स्य. १०.१-१०] । महाभारत के अनुसार, इसकी दाहिनी जाँध की मंथन से निषाद, एवं विंध्यगिरिवासी म्लेच्छों का निर्माण हुआ था [म. शां. ५९.१०१-१०३] । पद्म के अनुसार, यह ऋषियों के द्वारा मृत नही हुआ, बल्कि एक वल्मीक में छिप गया था [पद्म. भू. ३६-३८] ।
वेन n.  इस ग्रंथ में वेन के शरीर के दोन की कथा कुछ अलग प्रकार से प्राप्त है । दुष्टप्रकृति वेन ने मरीचि आदि ऋषियों का अपमान किया, जिस कारण ऋषियों ने इसके हाथ एवं पाव पकड़ कर इसे नीचे गिराया। पश्र्चात् उन्होंने इसके हाथ एवं पाव खुब घुमाये, जिस कारण इसके दाहिने एवं बाये हाथ से क्रमशः पृथु वैन्य एवं निषाद का निर्माण हुआ। इनमें से निषाद का जनम होते ही ऋषियों ने ‘निषाद’ कह कर अपना निषेध व्यक्त किया, जिस कारण इस कृष्णवर्णीय पुत्र को निषाद नाम प्राप्त हुआ। इस मंथन के बाद वेन मृत हुआ [वायु. ६१.१०८-१९३] । इसके दो पुत्रों में से, पृथु इसके पिता अनंग के अंश से उत्पन्न हुआ था, एवं निषाद की उत्पत्ति इसके स्वयं के पापों से हुई थी । निषाद के रूप में इसका पाप इसके शरीर से निकल जाते ही यह पापरहित हुआ। पश्र्चात् तृणबिंदु ऋषि के आश्रम में इसने विष्णु की उपासना की, जिस कारण इसे स्वर्लोक की प्राप्ति हुई [पद्म. भू. ३९-४०, १२३-१२५] । महाभारत के अनुसार, अपनी मृत्यु के पश्र्चात् यह यमसभा में सूर्यपुत्र यम की उपासना करने लगा [म. स. ८.१८] ।
वेन (पार्थ) n.  एक राजा, जिसके औदार्य की प्रशंसा तान्व पृथुपुत्र नामक आचार्य के द्वारा की गयी है [ऋ. १०.९३.१४] । ‘पृथा’ का वंशज होने से इसे ‘पार्थ’ मातृक नाम प्राप्त हुआ होगा [ऋ.१०.९३.१५] । लो. तिलकजी के अनुसार, वेन एक व्यक्ति का नाम न हो कर, आकाशस्थ ग्रह का नाम था [ऋ. १०.१२३] । किन्तु इस संबंध में निश्र्चित प्रमाण उपलब्ध नहीं है ।
वेन (भार्गव) n.  एक वैदिक सूक्तद्रष्टा [ऋ. ९.८५, १०.१२३] ।
वेन (वाज्रश्रवस) n.  एक ऋषि, जो बाईसवाँ व्यास था (व्यास देखिये) ।
वेन II. n.  एक राजा, जो वैवस्वत मनु के दस पुत्रों में से एक था [म. आ. ७०.१३] ।

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

वेन  mfn.  mf( ई)n. yearning, longing, eager, anxious, loving, [RV.]
वेन  m.  m. longing, desire, wish, care, ib.
अयं वेनः    N. of the hymn, [RV. x, 123] (beginning with ), [ŚāṅkhBr.]
यज्ञ   = , [Naigh. iii, 17]
    N. of a divine being of the middle region, [Naigh. v, 4]; [Nir. x, 38] (also applied to इन्द्र, the Sun, प्रजा-पति, and a गन्धर्व; in [AitBr. i, 20] connected with the navel)
भार्गव   of various men, ( esp.) of the author of [RV. ix, 85; x, 123] (having the patr.)
   of a राजर्षि or royal ऋषि (father of पृथु, and said to have perished through irreligious conduct and want of submissiveness to the Brāhmans; he is represented as having occasioned confusion of castes See, [Mn. vii, 41; ix, 66; 67], and as founder of the race of निषादs and धीवरs; according to the विष्णु-पुराण, वेन was a son of अङ्ग and a descendant of the first मनु; a वेन राज-श्रवस् is enumerated among the वेद-व्यासs or arrangers of the वेद), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Pur.]
वेण    v.l. for q.v.

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

वेन [vēna]   See वेण (2).

Shabda-Sagara

वेन  m.  ( -नः) BRAHMĀ.
    E. वी substituted for अज् to go, Unādi aff. न .

ROOTS:

वी अज् न .