पृषध्र

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PṚṢADHRA I   The ninth son of Vaivasvata Manu. He is described as one of the sacred and virtuous persons to be remembered during early mornings. He did penance at Kurukṣetra and attained Svarga. [Śloka 11, Chapter 20, Aśvamedha Parva] . Even from boyhood Pṛṣadhra started practice of penance. He got disgusted with life even from his boyhood. A story is told how it happened so. Once when Pṛṣadhra was studying under his Guru, a tiger entered the shed of the cows at night. Hearing the pitiable wails of the cow he went to the shed with his sword and gave a strong and fatal cut to the tiger with it. Unfortunately the stroke fell on the cow instead of the tiger and not knowing the truth in the darkness Pṛṣadhra went and slept peacefully. In the morning when he went to the shed he found the cow lying dead with his sword-cut. He then knew the mistake he had made at night and was so distressed with the accident that he at once left for Kurukṣetra and started doing penance there.
PṚṢADHRA II   A son of King Drupada. He was killed in the great battle by Aśvatthāmā. [Śloka 18, Chapter 156, Droṇa Parva] .
PṚṢADHRA III   A brahmin boy. One night while he was living in the āśrama of his Guru he saw a lion going out from the premises of the āśrama with an āśrama cow in its mouth. The brahmin boy rushed at it and struck the lion with a sword. But due to want of proper light the sword-cut fell on the cow and the cow fell down dead. The next day the Guru finding the cow lying dead mistook it for a deliberate killing by his disciple and cursed Pṛṣadhra to death. to be born as a Śūdra. When Pṛṣadhra was thus roaming about in the forests in his cursed form he fell into a big forest fire and was burnt to death. [Chapter 2, Sṛṣṭi Khaṇḍa, Padma Purāṇa] ; [Chapter 1, Aṁśa 4, Viṣṇu Purāṇa] .

प्राचीन चरित्रकोश

पृषध्र n.  एक राजा, के वैवस्वत मनु का नवॉं पुत्र था । इसकी माता का नाम संज्ञा था [म.आ.७०.१४] ; [ह. वं.१.१०.२] । भागवत के अनुसार, इसकी माता श्रद्धा थी [भा.९.१.१२] । च्यवन ऋषि का यह शिष्य था । महाभारत के अनुसार यह प्रातःसायंकालीन कीर्तन करने योग्य राजाओं में से एक है, क्योंकि इसको स्मरण करने से धर्म की प्राप्ति होती है [म.अनु.१६५.५८-६०] इसने कुरुक्षेत्र में तपस्या करके स्वर्ग प्राप्त किया था [म.आश्व.२६.११] । पृषध्र के कुल दस भाई थे, जिनके नाम इस प्रकार हैः
पृषध्र (काण्व) n.  एक वैदिक सूक्तदृष्टा [ऋ.८.५९] । ऋग्वेद के वालखिल्य सूक्त में मी इसका निर्देश प्राप्त है । वहॉं मेध्य एवं मातरिश्वन् के साथ इसका उल्लेख आया है [ऋ.८.५२.२] ।
पृषध्र (मेध्य मातरिश्वन्) n.  एक वैदिक राजा, जो प्रस्कण्व का प्रतिपालक था [सां.श्रौ.१६.११.२५-२७] ।
पृषध्र II. n.  एक ब्राह्मणपुत्र । गुरुगृह में शिक्षा प्राप्त करते हुए, एक दिन इसने एक सिंह को देखा कि वह गाय को मुँह में दबाये आश्रम से लिये जा रहा है । गाय की रक्षा के हेतु इसने अपना खड्‌ग शेर को मारा, पर सायंकाल के समय अंधेरा हो जाने के कारण, वह खड्‌ग गाय को लगा और वह तत्काल मर गयी । दूसरे दिन गुरु को जैसे ही यह समाचार ज्ञात हुआ उसने पृषध्र को उत्पाति तथा उद्दण्ड समझकर तत्काल शाप दिया, ‘तू शूद्र हो जा’। इस शाप के कारण, यह शूद्र होकर वन भटकता हुआ अन्त में दावानल से घिरकर मृत्यु को प्राप्त हुआ [भा.९.२.२-१४] ; [ह.वं.१.११] ; [वायु.८६.२४.२] ; [ब्रह्मांड.२.६१.१] ; [ब्रह्म. ७.४३ लिंग.१.६६.५२] ; [मत्स्य.१२.२५] ; [अग्नि.२७२.१८] ; [विष्णु. ४.१.१३] ; [गरुड. १.१३८.५] ; [पद्म. सृ.२] ।
पृषध्र III. n.  द्रुपद का एक पुत्र, जो भारतीय युद्ध में अश्वत्थामा द्वारा मारा गया था [म.द्रो.१३१.१२९] ।

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

पृष—ध्र  m.  m. N. of a man, [RV. viii, 52, 4] (supposed author of [RV. viii, 56])

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पृष ध्र

of a son of one of the मनुs, [MBh.]
-ध्रु   of a warrior on the side of the पाण्डवs, ib. ( w.r.; cf. पृश्नि-धर).

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ध्रु