यतिनाथ

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

YATINĀTHA   An incarnation of Siva. Āhuka, a forestdweller and his wife who lived in Arbuda (Abu) mountain were blessed by Yatinātha and as a result of the blessing they were born as Nala and Damayantī in their next birth. [Śiva Purāṇa, Śatarudra Saṁhitā] .

प्राचीन चरित्रकोश

यतिनाथ n.  एक शिवावतार । अबु के पहाड पर आहुका नामक एक भिल्लदम्पती रहते थे । इसने उन पर कृपा की, जिसके कारण अगले जन्म में उन्हे राजवंश मे नल एवं दमयंती के रुप में जन्म प्राप्त हुआ [शिव.शत.२८] ।