कल्माषपादkalmāṣapāda

कल्माषपाद (kalmāṣapāda) is a Sanskrit word meaning having speckled feet, name of a king, a proper name, a king cursed by Shakti in Naimisha, another name for Mitrasaha. Its 9 recorded definitions are grouped into 3 contexts, among them King Kalmāṣapāda: Identification and Key Attributes, Having speckled feet (adjective), King Kalmāṣapāda: Detailed Mythological Narratives.

Definitions: 9

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King Kalmāṣapāda: Identification and Key Attributes

7 definitions

Name of a king

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

The name of a king transformed into a demon by Vasishtha.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Name of a king

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

The name of a king transformed into a Rakshasa by Vasishtha

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

A proper name

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a king cursed by Shakti in Naimisha

— The Purana Index

another name for Mitrasaha

— The Purana Index

Having speckled feet (adjective)

1 definition

having speckled feet

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

King Kalmāṣapāda: Detailed Mythological Narratives

1 definition

King of Ayodhya, husband of Madayanti, also known as Saudasa or Mitrasaha.

कल्माषपाद (kalmāṣapāda) [Printed book page 377-1]
Kalmāṣapāda, Saudāsa (also named Mitrasaha), king of

Ayodhyā and husband of Madayantī. § 188 (Madayantī):

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I, 122, 4737 (being himself unable to beget children

K. urged Madayantī to go to Vasiṣṭha, who begat Aśmaka on

her, cf. § 225).—§ 224 (Vāsiṣṭha): The rājarṣi of the

race of Ikṣvāku Kalmāṣapāda (whose sacrifices Viśvāmitra

had desired to perform) once when hunting met the viprarṣi

Śaktri, the eldest of Vasiṣṭha's 100 sons, and ordered

him to stand out of his way, and as Śaktri did not yield

K. struck him with his whip. Śaktri then cursed him, saying:

“From this day thou shalt be a rākṣasa, eating human

flesh.” The king began humbly to propitiate the ṛṣi, but

Viśvāmitra (between whom and Vasiṣṭha there was a dispute

about K., whom they both wanted as their yājya) passed before

them without being seen, and caused a rākṣasa named Kiṅkara

to enter the king. Viśvāmitra then went away. At this time

a hungry brahman beheld in the wood K., who was terribly

afflicted by the rākṣasa, and asked the king for some food

with meat. K. asked him to stay there for a moment, and

having roved for some time at pleasure at last entered his

inner apartments. When waking at midnight and remembering

his promise, he summoned his cook, and as the cook did not

find any meat K. said: “Feed him with human flesh.”

The cook then took human flesh from the place where the

executioners were, and offered it to the hungry brahman.

Seeing with his spiritual power of vision (siddha-cakṣuṣā)

what kind of food it was, the brahman in anger said that the

king himself should take a fancy to such food and wander

over all the earth alarming all creatures. The curse on the

king, being thus repeated a second time, became very strong,

and possessed by the rākṣasa the king lost all his senses.

A while after K., beholding Śaktri, in order to revenge him-

self for the curse slew him and ate him up. And Viśvāmitra

caused that rākṣasa also to devour the other sons of Vasiṣṭha:

I, 176, 6696 (Ikṣvākuvaṃśajaḥ), [6720 (Mitrasahaḥ B., C. has

mitrasahaṃ as adj. to dvijaṃ)].—§ 225 (Vāsiṣṭha): I, 177,

6761, 6768 (Vasiṣṭha delivered K. from the curse of Śaktri,

and then at the request of K. begat Aśmaka on Madayantī,

the queen of K.).—§ 228 (Aurvop.): I, 181, 6881 (attained

to heaven).—§ 229 (Vasiṣṭhop.): I, 182, 6888, 6904

(rājarṣiṃ, it is related why K. caused Vasiṣṭha to beget

a son on his wife).—[§ 480 (Pativratop., Brāhmaṇavyā-

dhasaṃv.): III, 208, 13817 (Saudāsena, all. to § 224).]—

§ 607 (Karṇap.): VIII, 45, 2092 (Rākṣasaḥ, a sentence of

his is quoted; read with B. K°aḥ sarasi, instead of K°asarasi).

—[§ 638b (Rāmopākhyāna): XII, 49, 1792 (dāyādaḥ Saudā-

sasya…Sarvakarmā, had been protected by Parāśara).]—

[§ 723 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 6α, 326 (Kośalādhipaḥ…

Saudāsaḥ, had become a Rākṣasa through a curse, all. to

§ 224).]—[§ 677 (Mokṣadh.): XII, 235, 8604 (rājā

Mitrasahaś cāpi Vasiṣṭhāya mahātmane Madayantīṃ (Dama°,

C.) priyāṃ dattvā tayā saha divaṃ gataḥ, cf. § 225).]—[§ 746

(do.): XIII, 78, 3732 (Ikṣvākuvaṃśajo rājā Saudāsaḥ),

(3734) (Saudāsaḥ, questioned Vasiṣṭha about kine).]—

§ 767 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 137α, 6262 (rājā Mitrasahaḥ).]—

[§ 784b (Uttaṅka): XIV, 56, 1654 (Saudāsapatnī°), 1656

(Saudāsaṃ puruṣādaṃ); 57, (1672) (Saudāsaḥ), (1674) (do.),

(1679) (do.), 1681 (Saudāsa°); 58, 1690 (Mitrasahaṃ),

(1691) (Saudāsaḥ), (1694) (do.), (1700) (do.), (1704) (do.)

(caused Madayantī to give Uttaṅka her ear-rings).] Cf.

Ikṣvākuvara, Kośalādhipa, Mitrasaha, Rākṣasa, Saudāsa.

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— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

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Definitions on this page come from 7 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.