सहस्रपाद

{ sahasrapāda (sahasrapāt) }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

SAHASRAPĀDA (SAHASRAPĀT)   
1) General.
A maharṣi, who was transformed into a serpent by the curse of Khagama, another maharṣi. But a talk with King Ruru restored him to his former self. (For details see under Ruru, para 4).
2) Other information.
Ruru desired to get some information about serpent yajña from Sahasrapāt, who answered the former that he would hear the story of Āstīka from brahmins and then disappeared. [Ādi Parva, Chapter 12, Verse 3] .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

सहस्र—पाद  m.  m. ‘ th°-footed’ or ‘ th°-rayed’, the sun, [L.]

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सहस्र पाद

a sort of dock, [L.]
N. of विष्णु, [L.]

Shabda-Sagara

सहस्रपाद  m.  ( -दः)
1. The sun.
2. VISHṆU.
3. A sort or duck.
E. सहस्र a thousand, and पाद a foot.

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सहस्र पाद