An epithet of Auddalaki
N. of Auddālaki, Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa (Title) [ID=224578.2]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
श्वेतकेतुśvetaketu
श्वेतकेतु (śvetaketu) is a Sanskrit word meaning a comet, a Jaina saint, an epithet of Auddalaki, of Aruneya, a son of Senajit, an epithet of Gautama Buddha as a Bodhisattva. Its 15 recorded definitions are grouped into 5 contexts, among them The Vedic Sage Śvetaketu, son of Uddālaka/Āruṇi, Śvetaketu in Jaina/Buddhist Traditions, Other Distinct Individuals Named Śvetaketu.
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The Vedic Sage Śvetaketu, son of Uddālaka/Āruṇi
5 definitions
of Aruneya
of Āruṇeya, in the same place [Cologne Addition] (Title) &c. [ID=224578.3]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
A sage, son of Uddalaka, who established the rule of marital fidelity.
श्वेतकेतु (śvetaketu) [Printed book page 223-1]
Śvetaketu1, a muni, son of Uddālaka. § 59 (Sarpasattra):
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Śvetaketu1, a muni, son of Uddālaka. § 59 (Sarpasattra):
I, 53α, 2047 (among the sadasyas at the snake sacrifice of
Janamejaya).—§ 187b (Pāṇḍu): The muni Ś., son of Uddālaka,
established the present usage among men that the sin of
violating matrimonial chastity is regarded like to that of
killing an embryo; this Ś. established from anger, as one day,
in the presence of his father, a brahman came and seized his
mother by the hand and took her away; Uddālaka, however,
excused the fact as it was the practice sanctioned by antiquity:
I, 122, 4724, 4725, 4726, 4728, 4730, 4735 (Uddālakasya
putreṇa).—§ 266 (Śakrasabhāv.): II, 7, 294 (in the palace
of Indra).—§ 412 (Aṣṭāvakrīya): III, 132, †10597
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(Auddālakiḥ), †10598, †10599 (Auddālakiḥ), †10609, †10614,
†10615, †10617 (Ś. was of the same age as Aṣṭāvakra, the
son of Uddālaka's daughter, who regarded Ś. as his brother;
Ś. informed Aṣṭāvakra that Uddālaka was not his father,
then they both repaired to the sacrifice of Janaka).—§ 635
(Rājadharm.): XII, 34, 1229 (Uddālaka caused his son Ś.
to be begotten by a disciple).—§ 640 (do.): XII, 57, 2056
(Uddālaka cast off Ś. because he deceived brahmans).—§ 775
(Ānuśāsanik.): XIII, 166ζ, 7671 (Auddālakiḥ, among the
ṛṣis of the north)
[ID=2890]— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
a Madhyamadhvaryu
श्वेतकेतु (śvetaketu) [Printed book page 3-495]
Śvetaketu (I) — a Madhyamādhvaryu. Br. II. 33. 16. [ID=15034]
Śvetaketu (I) — a Madhyamādhvaryu. Br. II. 33. 16. [ID=15034]
— The Purana Index
A Vedic sage and teacher, son of Uddalaka, frequently mentioned in the Brahmanas and Upanishads as a disputant and authority on ritual.
श्वेतकेतु (śvetaketu) [Printed book page 2-409]
Śveta-ketu Aruṇeya1 (‘descendant of Aruṇa’) or Auddālaki2 (‘son of Uddālaka’) is mentioned repeatedly in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa and the Chāndogya Upaniṣad. In the Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad3 he appears as Śvetaketu, son of Āruṇi, and as a Gautama. In the Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa4 he is quoted as an authority on the vexed question of the duty of the Sadasya, or the seventeenth priest, at the ritual of the Kauṣītakins, to notify errors in the sacrifice; Āruṇi, his father, is also cited. He was a person of some originality, for he insisted on eating honey despite the general prohibition of the use of that delicacy by Brahmacārins or religious students.5 He was a contemporary of, and was instructed by the Pañcāla king Pravāhaṇa Jaivala.6 He was also a contemporary of Janaka, of Videha, and figured among the Brahmin disputants at his court.7 A story is told of him in the Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra:8 Jala Jātūkarṇya was lucky enough to become the Purohita of three peoples or kings, of Kāśi, Kosala, and Videha. Seeing this, Śvetaketu felt annoyed and reproached his father with his excessive devotion to sacrifice, which merely enriched and glorified others, not himself. His father replied, forbidding him to speak thus: he had learned the true method of sacrificing, and his ambition in life had been to discuss it with every Brahmin. All the references to Śvetaketu belong to the latest period of Vedic literature. It is, therefore, not surprising that the Āpa- stamba Dharma Sūtra9 should refer to him as an Avara, or
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person of later days, who still became a Ṛṣi by special merit. His date, however, must not be fixed too low, because the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa in which he plays so marked a part is certainly earlier than Pāṇini, and was apparently even in that grammarian's time believed to be an ancient work: hence 500 B.C. is probably rather too late than too early a period for Śvetaketu as a rough approximation to a date.10
[Footnote: 1) Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xi. 2, 7, 12; 5, 4, 18; 6, 2, 1; xii. 2, 1, 9; Bṛhad- āraṇyaka Upaniṣad, iii. 7, 1; vi. 1, 1 (Mādhyaṃdina = vi. 2, 1 Kāṇva); Chān- dogya Upaniṣad, v. 3, 1; vi. 1, 1; 8, 1.]
[Footnote: 2) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4, 3, 13; iv. 2, 5, 14.]
[Footnote: 3) i. 1.]
[Footnote: 4) xxvi. 4.]
[Footnote: 5) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xi. 5, 4, 18.]
[Footnote: 6) Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, vi. 1, 1 (Mādhyaṃdina = vi. 2, 1 Kāṇva); Chān- dogya Upaniṣad, v. 3, 1.]
[Footnote: 7) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xi. 6, 2, 1 (it is to be noted that he came upon Janaka when travelling about with some other Brahmins: he was never settled in the Videha country, but was clearly a Kuru-Pañcāla, like his father); Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, iii. 7, 1, where he shares the usual fate of defeat in argument by Yājñavalkya.]
[Footnote: 8) xvi. 27, 6 et seq. The exact sense of kṛtsnake brahmabandhau vyajijñāsiṣi is not quite certain. But Āruṇi seems to assert the love of knowledge, not of material advantages accruing to the Purohita, to have been his concern in life.]
[Footnote: 9) i. 2, 5, 4-6.]
[Footnote: 10) See on this, Bühler, Sacred Books of the East, 2, xxxvii et seq.; Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 12, xxxv et seq.; Max Müller, Ancient Sanskrit Literature, 360 et seq.; Weber, Indische Studien, 5, 65; 13, 443; Keith, Aitareya Āraṇyaka, 22 et seq. Cf. Muir, Sanskrit Texts, 1^2, 433; Max Müller, Ancient Sanskrit Literature, 421 et seq.; Oldenberg, Buddha, 397, n.]
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Śveta-ketu Aruṇeya1 (‘descendant of Aruṇa’) or Auddālaki2 (‘son of Uddālaka’) is mentioned repeatedly in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa and the Chāndogya Upaniṣad. In the Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad3 he appears as Śvetaketu, son of Āruṇi, and as a Gautama. In the Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa4 he is quoted as an authority on the vexed question of the duty of the Sadasya, or the seventeenth priest, at the ritual of the Kauṣītakins, to notify errors in the sacrifice; Āruṇi, his father, is also cited. He was a person of some originality, for he insisted on eating honey despite the general prohibition of the use of that delicacy by Brahmacārins or religious students.5 He was a contemporary of, and was instructed by the Pañcāla king Pravāhaṇa Jaivala.6 He was also a contemporary of Janaka, of Videha, and figured among the Brahmin disputants at his court.7 A story is told of him in the Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra:8 Jala Jātūkarṇya was lucky enough to become the Purohita of three peoples or kings, of Kāśi, Kosala, and Videha. Seeing this, Śvetaketu felt annoyed and reproached his father with his excessive devotion to sacrifice, which merely enriched and glorified others, not himself. His father replied, forbidding him to speak thus: he had learned the true method of sacrificing, and his ambition in life had been to discuss it with every Brahmin. All the references to Śvetaketu belong to the latest period of Vedic literature. It is, therefore, not surprising that the Āpa- stamba Dharma Sūtra9 should refer to him as an Avara, or
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person of later days, who still became a Ṛṣi by special merit. His date, however, must not be fixed too low, because the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa in which he plays so marked a part is certainly earlier than Pāṇini, and was apparently even in that grammarian's time believed to be an ancient work: hence 500 B.C. is probably rather too late than too early a period for Śvetaketu as a rough approximation to a date.10
[Footnote: 1) Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xi. 2, 7, 12; 5, 4, 18; 6, 2, 1; xii. 2, 1, 9; Bṛhad- āraṇyaka Upaniṣad, iii. 7, 1; vi. 1, 1 (Mādhyaṃdina = vi. 2, 1 Kāṇva); Chān- dogya Upaniṣad, v. 3, 1; vi. 1, 1; 8, 1.]
[Footnote: 2) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4, 3, 13; iv. 2, 5, 14.]
[Footnote: 3) i. 1.]
[Footnote: 4) xxvi. 4.]
[Footnote: 5) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xi. 5, 4, 18.]
[Footnote: 6) Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, vi. 1, 1 (Mādhyaṃdina = vi. 2, 1 Kāṇva); Chān- dogya Upaniṣad, v. 3, 1.]
[Footnote: 7) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xi. 6, 2, 1 (it is to be noted that he came upon Janaka when travelling about with some other Brahmins: he was never settled in the Videha country, but was clearly a Kuru-Pañcāla, like his father); Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, iii. 7, 1, where he shares the usual fate of defeat in argument by Yājñavalkya.]
[Footnote: 8) xvi. 27, 6 et seq. The exact sense of kṛtsnake brahmabandhau vyajijñāsiṣi is not quite certain. But Āruṇi seems to assert the love of knowledge, not of material advantages accruing to the Purohita, to have been his concern in life.]
[Footnote: 9) i. 2, 5, 4-6.]
[Footnote: 10) See on this, Bühler, Sacred Books of the East, 2, xxxvii et seq.; Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 12, xxxv et seq.; Max Müller, Ancient Sanskrit Literature, 360 et seq.; Weber, Indische Studien, 5, 65; 13, 443; Keith, Aitareya Āraṇyaka, 22 et seq. Cf. Muir, Sanskrit Texts, 1^2, 433; Max Müller, Ancient Sanskrit Literature, 421 et seq.; Oldenberg, Buddha, 397, n.]
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— The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects
Śvetaketu in Jaina/Buddhist Traditions
5 definitions
a Jaina saint
a Jaina saint, Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ID=224578.1]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
an epithet of Gautama Buddha as a Bodhisattva
of Gautama Buddha as a Bodhi-sattva, Lalita-vistara (Title) [ID=224578.5]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
A Buddhist or Jaina saint.
श्वेत (śveta)केतु (ketu) (śvetaketu) [Printed book page 868]
श्वेत (śveta)केतु (ketu) (śvetaketu) m. (-तुः (-tuḥ)) A Bauddha or Jaina saint.
श्वेत (śveta)केतु (ketu) (śvetaketu) m. (-तुः (-tuḥ)) A Bauddha or Jaina saint.
E. श्वेत (śveta) white, and केतु (ketu) a banner.
[ID=39399]— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
A Buddhist
श्वेतकेतु (śvetaketu) [Printed book page 787-b]
श्वेत-केतु (śveta-ketu) (तुः) ((tuḥ)) 2. m. A Bauddha. [ID=39061]
श्वेत-केतु (śveta-ketu) (तुः) ((tuḥ)) 2. m. A Bauddha. [ID=39061]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
A Buddhist or Jaina saint.
श्वेत (śveta)केतु (ketu) (śvetaketu) [Printed book page 738-b]
श्वेत (śveta)केतु (ketu) (śvetaketu)
श्वेत (śveta)केतु (ketu) (śvetaketu)
m. (-तुः (-tuḥ)) A Bauddha or Jaina saint.
E. श्वेत (śveta) white, केतु (ketu) a banner.
[ID=41310]— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Other Distinct Individuals Named Śvetaketu
3 definitions
a son of Senajit
of a son of Sena-jit, Harivaṃśa (Title) [ID=224578.4]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
Śvetaki
[Printed book page 223-2]
Śvetaketu2 = Śvetaki: I, 223, v. 69 (the śloka is wanting
Śvetaketu2 = Śvetaki: I, 223, v. 69 (the śloka is wanting
in C.).
[ID=2891]— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata
a son of Langali and an avatar of the Lord
Śvetaketu (II) — a son of Lāngali, an avatār of the Lord. Vā. 23. 200. [ID=15035]
— The Purana Index
A Man's Name (General)
1 definition
a man's name
श्वेतकेतु (śvetaketu) [Printed book page 565]
श्वेतकेतु (śvetaketu) m. a man's name. [ID=33585]
श्वेतकेतु (śvetaketu) m. a man's name. [ID=33585]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Śvetaketu as a Comet
1 definition
a comet
(H3) [Printed book page 1106,3]
श्वेत (śveta)—केतु (—ketu) (श्वेत (śveta)- (śveta-)), m. N. of a comet (also called Uddālaka-śvetá), Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā (Title) [ID=224578]
श्वेत (śveta)—केतु (—ketu) (श्वेत (śveta)- (śveta-)), m. N. of a comet (also called Uddālaka-śvetá), Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā (Title) [ID=224578]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
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