जन्तु

{ jantuḥ, jantu }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

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] .

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : जंतु, कीटाणु, जंतु

नेपाली (Nepali) WN

noun  त्यो जीवधारी जसमा स्वैच्छिक गति हुन्छ   Ex. पृथ्वमा अनेकौं प्रकारका जन्तु पाइन्छन्

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जानु कराउनु

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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:

asm জীৱ

bd जिबि

ben জীব

guj પ્રાણી

hin जंतु

kan ಪ್ರಾಣಿ

kas زُوزٲژ

kok जीव

mal ജീവി

mar प्राणी

mni ꯊꯋꯥꯏ꯭ꯄꯥꯟꯕ꯭ꯖꯤꯕ

ori ଜୀବ

pan ਜੰਤੂ

san प्राणी

tam விலங்கு

tel జంతువు

urd حیوان , جانور , ذی حیات , جاندار

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

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-.

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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.

Shabda-Sagara

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

संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) WN

See : जीवित