संस्‍कृत हिन्‍दी अंग्रेजी शब्‍दकोश : कुन्ती

कुन्ती

पृथा, पाण्डु की पत्नि

name of pritha, daughter of surya and wife of pandu

शब्द-भेद : स्‍त्री.

पृथा

कुन्ती

kunti

विवरणम् : युधिष्ठिर‚ भीम‚ अर्जुन व कर्ण की माता‚ महाराज पाण्डु की पत्नी‚ महाराज कुन्तीभोज की पालिता पुत्री‚ महाराज वसुदेव की बहिन

शब्द-भेद : स्‍त्री.

वर्ग :

Monier–Williams

कुन्ती — {kuntī} f. N. of Pṛithā (daughter of a Yādava prince named Śūra {or Vasu ḥariv. 5255}, who gave her to his childless cousin Kunti or Kuntibhoja, by whom she was adopted##she afterwards became one of the wives of Pāṇḍu##on one occasion before her marriage she paid such respect to the powerful sage Durvāsas that he taught her an incantation or charm, by virtue of which she was to have a child by any god she liked to invoke##out of curiosity she invoked the Sun, by whom she had a child, cf. {karṇa}##but the Sun afterwards restored to her her maidenhood: soon after his marriage Pāṇḍu retired to the woods to indulge his passion for hunting##there he killed a male and female deer, who turned out to be a Ṛishi and his wife in the form of these animals##the sage cursed Pāṇḍu and predicted that he would die in the embrace of one of his wives##hence Pāṇḍu lived apart from Kuntī, but with his approval she made use of her charm and had three sons, Yudhishṭhira, Bhīma, and Arjuna, by the three deities Dharma, Vāyu, and Indra respectively##cf. {mādrī}) Pāṇ. MBh. &c##N. of a Rākshasī Buddh##of a river VP##the wife of a Brāhman L##the plant Boswellia thurifera L##a fragrant resin (= {guggulu}) L

इन्हें भी देखें : कुन्तीनन्दन; कुन्तीभोज; कुन्तीमातृ; कुन्तीसुत; कुन्तिभोजः; कुन्तलः; पितृष्वसा; शूलः, शूलम्, शल्यम्, प्रासः, कुन्तः, कुन्ती, शलाका, कीलः, तोमरः; तीक्ष्णगन्धः, कुन्ती; पौराणिकस्त्री; कुन्ती, पृथा, पार्ष्णिः, सूर्यप्रिया, कर्णप्रसूः; पार्ष्णिः, कुन्ती, कुम्भी;