Durvasa, the Glossary
In Hindu scriptures, Durvasa (दुर्वासा), also known as Durvasas (दुर्वासस्), is a legendary rishi (sage).[1]
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Agni Purana
The Agni Purana, (अग्नि पुराण) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism.
Airavata
Amber, Rajasthan Airavata (lit) is a divine elephant, characterized by four tusks, seven trunks and a white complexion.
Akshaya Patra
Akshaya Patra is a legendary copper vessel featured in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Amrita
Amrita (अमृत, IAST: amṛta), Amrit or Amata in Pali, (also called Sudha, Amiy, Ami) is a Sanskrit word that means "immortality".
Anasuya
Anasuya is an ascetic, and the wife of Sage Atri in Hinduism.
Anushasana Parva
Anushasana Parva (अनुशासन पर्व, IAST: Anuśāsanaparva) or the "Book of Instructions", is the thirteenth of eighteen books of the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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Arjuna
Arjuna was an ancient prince of the Kuru Kingdom, located in the present-day India. Durvasa and Arjuna are characters in the Mahabharata.
Arthur W. Ryder
Arthur William Ryder (March 8, 1877 – March 21, 1938) was a professor of Sanskrit at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Asura
Asuras are a class of beings in Indian religions.
Atharvaveda
The Atharvaveda or Atharva Veda (अथर्ववेद,, from अथर्वन्, and वेद, "knowledge") or Atharvana Veda (अथर्वणवेद) is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life".
Atri
Atri or Attri is a Vedic sage, who is credited with composing numerous hymns to Agni, Indra, and other Vedic deities of Hinduism. Durvasa and Atri are rishis.
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Ayodhya
Ayodhya is a city situated on the banks of the Sarayu river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Azamgarh
Azamgarh is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Badrinath
Badrinath is a town and nagar panchayat in Chamoli district in the state of Uttarakhand, India.
Bhagavata Purana
The Bhagavata Purana (भागवतपुराण), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana or simply Bhagavata (Bhāgavata), is one of Hinduism's eighteen great Puranas (Mahapuranas).
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Bhakti
Bhakti (भक्ति; Pali: bhatti) is a term common in Indian religions which means attachment, fondness for, devotion to, trust, homage, worship, piety, faith, or love.
Brahma
Brahma (ब्रह्मा) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the trinity of supreme divinity that includes Vishnu and Shiva.
Brahmanda Purana
The Brahmanda Purana (translit) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas, a genre of Hindu texts.
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Chandra
Chandra (shining' or 'moon), also known as Soma (सोम), is the Hindu god of the Moon, and is associated with the night, plants and vegetation.
Dattatreya
Dattatreya (दत्तात्रेय), Dattā or Dattaguru, is a paradigmatic Sannyasi (monk) and one of the lords of yoga, venerated as a Hindu god.
Deva (Hinduism)
Deva (Sanskrit: देव) means "shiny", "exalted", "heavenly being", "divine being", "anything of excellence", and is also one of the Sanskrit terms used to indicate a deity in Hinduism.
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Draupadi
Draupadi (Daughter of Drupada), also referred to as Krishnā, Panchali, and Yajnaseni, was the queen of ancient Kuru Kingdom, and the eldest wife of Kuru King Yudhishthira, along with his four brothers (Pandava)— Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. Durvasa and Draupadi are characters in the Mahabharata.
Duryodhana
Duryodhana (दुर्योधन), also known as Suyodhana, is the primary antagonist in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He was the eldest of the Kauravas, the hundred sons of the king Dhritarashtra and his queen Gandhari. Durvasa and Duryodhana are characters in the Mahabharata.
Dushyanta
Dushyanta (दुष्यन्त) is a king of the Chandravamsha (Lunar) dynasty featured in Hindu literature. Durvasa and Dushyanta are characters in the Mahabharata.
Dvārakā
Dvārakā, also known as Dvāravatī (Sanskrit द्वारका "the gated ", possibly meaning having many gates, or alternatively having one or several very grand gates), is a sacred historic city in the sacred literature of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.
Ghaghara
The Ghaghara River, also known as the Karnali River in Nepal, Mapcha Tsangpo in Tibet, and the lower Ghaghara in Awadh is known as the Sarayu River, is a perennial trans-boundary river that originates in the northern slopes of the Himalayas in the Tibetan Plateau, cuts through the Himalayas in Nepal and joins the Sharda River at Brahmaghat in India.
Gita Press
Gita Press is an Indian books publishing company, headquartered in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Harivaṃśa
The Harivamsa is an important work of Sanskrit literature, containing 16,374 shlokas, mostly in the anustubh metre.
Hastinapur
Hastinapur is a city in the Meerut district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Indian units of measurement
Before the introduction of the metric system, one may divide the history of Indian systems of measurement into three main periods: the pre-Akbar period, the period of the Akbar system, and the British colonial period.
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Indra
Indra (इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism. Durvasa and Indra are characters in the Mahabharata.
Karna
Karna (Sanskrit: कर्ण, IAST: Karṇa), also known as Vasusena, Anga-raja, and Radheya, is one of the main protagonists of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. Durvasa and Karna are characters in the Mahabharata.
Kaurava
Kaurava is a Sanskrit term which refers to descendants of Kuru, a legendary king of India who is the ancestor of many of the characters of the epic Mahabharata. Durvasa and Kaurava are characters in the Mahabharata.
Kheer
Kheer, also known as payasam or payesh, is a pudding/porridge popular in the Indian subcontinent, usually made by boiling milk, sugar or jaggery, and rice.
Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism. Durvasa and Krishna are characters in the Mahabharata.
Kshira Sagara
In Hindu cosmology, the Kshira Sagara (italic) or Ocean of Milk is the fifth from the centre of the seven oceans.
Kunti
Kunti (कुन्ती), born Pritha (पृथा), was the queen of Kuru in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Durvasa and Kunti are characters in the Mahabharata.
Kurukshetra War
The Kurukshetra War (कुरुक्षेत्र युद्ध), also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata, arising from a dynastic struggle between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura.
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Lakshmana
Lakshmana (lit), also known as Laxmana, Saumitra and Ramanuja, is a Hindu god and the younger brother of Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Lingam
A lingam (लिङ्ग, lit. "sign, symbol or mark"), sometimes referred to as linga or Shiva linga, is an abstract or aniconic representation of the Hindu god Shiva in Shaivism.
List of characters in the Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, composed by Veda Vyasa. Durvasa and List of characters in the Mahabharata are characters in the Mahabharata.
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Madri
Madri (माद्री) was the princess of Madra Kingdom and the second wife of Pandu, the king of Kuru Kingdom in the epic Mahabharata. Durvasa and Madri are characters in the Mahabharata.
Mahabali
Mahabali (IAST: Mahābalī), also known as Bali, Indrasenan, or Māveli, is a daitya king featured in Hinduism.
Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
Mantra
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indic language like Sanskrit) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.
Matsya Purana
The Matsya Purana (IAST: Matsya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major Puranas (Mahapurana), and among the oldest and better preserved in the Puranic genre of Sanskrit literature in Hinduism.
Mount Kailash
Mount Kailash (also Kailasa; Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche; གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ;; कैलास) is a mountain in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Nara-Narayana
Naranarayana, also rendered Nara-Narayana, is a Hindu duo of sage-brothers. Durvasa and Nara-Narayana are rishis.
Padma Purana
The Padma Purana (पद्मपुराण or पाद्मपुराण, or) is one of the eighteen Major Puranas, a genre of texts in Hinduism.
Pandava
The Pandavas (Sanskrit: पाण्डव, IAST: Pāṇḍava) is a group name referring to the five legendary brothers, Yudhishtira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, who are central figures of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Pandu
Pandu (pale) was the king of Kuru Kingdom, with capital at Hastinapur in the epic Mahabharata. Durvasa and Pandu are characters in the Mahabharata.
Parvati
Parvati (पार्वती), also known as Uma (उमा) and Gauri (गौरी), is the Hindu goddess of power, energy, nourishment, harmony, love, beauty, devotion, and motherhood.
Pradyumna
Pradyumna (lit) is the eldest son of the Hindu deities Krishna and his chief consort, Rukmini. Durvasa and Pradyumna are characters in the Mahabharata.
Puranas
Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.
Raivataka
Raivataka mountain was a mountain mentioned in the epic Mahābhārata and in the Harivaṃśa-purāṇa 2.55.111.
Ralph T. H. Griffith
Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (1826–1906) was an English Indologist, a member of the Indian education service and among the first Europeans to translate the Vedas into English.
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Rama
Rama is a major deity in Hinduism. Durvasa and Rama are characters in the Mahabharata.
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Ramakrishna Math
Ramakrishna Math is the administrative legal organization of the Ramakrishna Order, of Daśanāmi Sampradaya.
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Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
Rishi
In Indian religions, a rishi is an accomplished and enlightened person. Durvasa and rishi are rishis.
Rukmini
Rukmini (lit) is a Hindu goddess and the first queen of Krishna. Durvasa and Rukmini are characters in the Mahabharata.
S. N. Patankar
Sadashiv Narayan Patankar (?-1941) was an Indian producer, director, and cameraman.
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Sahadeva
Sahadeva (one with the gods) was the youngest of the five Pandava brothers in the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Durvasa and Sahadeva are characters in the Mahabharata.
Samadhi
Statue of a meditating Shiva, Rishikesh Samādhi (Pali and समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness.
Samudra Manthana
The Samudra Manthana (lit) is a major episode in Hinduism that is elaborated in the Vishnu Purana, a major text of Hinduism.
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Saraswati
Saraswati (सरस्वती), also spelled as Sarasvati, is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, flowing water, abundance and wealth, art, speech, wisdom, and learning.
Shakuni
Shakuni (शकुनि) is one of the antagonists of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. Durvasa and Shakuni are characters in the Mahabharata.
Shakuntala
Shakuntala (Sanskrit: Śakuntalā) is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata. Durvasa and Shakuntala are characters in the Mahabharata.
Shiva
Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis. Durvasa and Shiva are characters in the Mahabharata.
Shiva Purana
The Shiva Purana is one of eighteen major texts of the Purana genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism, and part of the Shaivism literature corpus.
Surya
Surya (सूर्य) is the SunDalal, p. 399 as well as the solar deity in Hinduism. Durvasa and Surya are characters in the Mahabharata.
Swaminarayan
Swaminarayan (IAST:; 3 April 1781 – 1 June 1830), also known as Sahajanand Swami, was a yogi and ascetic believed by followers to be a manifestation of Krishna or the highest manifestation of Purushottama, around whom the Swaminarayan Sampradaya developed.
Swaminarayan Sampradaya
The Swaminarayan Sampradaya, also known as Swaminarayan Hinduism and Swaminarayan movement, is a Hindu Vaishnava sampradaya rooted in Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita, characterized by the worship of its charismatic founder Sahajanand Swami, better known as Swaminarayan (1781–1830), as an avatar of Krishna or as the highest manifestation of Purushottam, the supreme God.
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Trailokya
Trailokya (त्रैलोक्य;; tiloka, Tibetan: khams gsum; 三界; Tam Giới) literally means "three worlds".
Uddhava
Uddhava is a character from the Puranic texts of Hinduism, described to be the friend and counsellor of Krishna.
Valmiki
Valmiki (Vālmīki) was a legendary poet who is celebrated as the traditional author of the epic Ramayana, based on the attribution in the text itself. Durvasa and Valmiki are rishis.
Vasishtha
Vasishtha (lit) is one of the oldest and revered Vedic rishis or sages, and one of the Saptarishis (seven great Rishis). Durvasa and Vasishtha are rishis.
Vayu Purana
The Vayu Purana (वायुपुराण) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism.
Vidyaranya
Vidyaranya (IAST: Vidyāraṇya), usually identified with Mādhavācārya, was the jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham from ca.
Vishnu
Vishnu, also known as Narayana and Hari, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.
Vishnu Purana
The Viṣṇu Purāṇa (विष्णुपुराण) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, a genre of ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism.
Yadava
The Yadava were an ancient Indian people who believed to be descended from Yadu, a legendary king of Chandravamsha lineage.
Yama
Yama (lit), also known as Kāla and Dharmarāja, is the Hindu god of death and justice, responsible for the dispensation of law and punishment of sinners in his abode, Naraka.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durvasa
Also known as Durvasa Risi, Durvasa Riṣi, Durvasar, Durvasas, Dūrvāsa, Rishi Durvasa.
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