Kumbha
Kumbha
Kumbha is a name used for more than one being or thing in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.
Things and ideas
- Kumbha (Rāśi): kumbha, the pot or water-jar, and the eleventh of the twelve rāśis. Vāmana Purāṇa, Chapters 5, 35; Agni Purāṇa, Chapters 9–10, 27, 84; Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 11; Uttara Parva, Chapter 121
Named in passing
- The kumbha of Mitra and Varuṇa: the pot in which they placed their tejas, from which Agastya Maharshi appeared, told on Agastya Maharshi. Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 118
- Kumbha the rākshasa: a rākshasa killed in the war at Laṅkā, named with Nikumbha, told on Lakshmaṇa. Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 10
- Kumbha, a naraka: one of the named narakas, told on Naraka. Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 203
- Kumbha, a nidhi-kalaśa: one of the nine nidhi-kalaśas set with the nine stones, told on Vāstu Pūjā. Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 130
- Kumbha, a name in the maṇḍala: one of the names written to the north around Gaṇapati, told on Gaṇapati. Agni Purāṇa, Chapters 266, 318