Kubjaka

Kubjaka

Grammar: masculine noun; a flowering plant, also printed kubja.

Meaning: a flower offered in pūjā.

In the scriptures: it is the fifth of the twelve flowers, month by month, in the Aviyoga Tṛtīyā vrata, for the pleasure of Bhagavān Śiva and Devī Pārvatī, where the print has kubja (Uttara Parva, Chapter 22). It is among the flowers always approved in the Viśoka Dvādaśī vrata (Uttara Parva, Chapter 84). It is the seventh of the twelve flowers with which Umā-Maheśvara receive pūjā on the twelve caturdaśīs of the Śiva Caturdaśī vrata (Uttara Parva, Chapters 96–97).

Sources

• Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapters 22, 84, 96–97