लोमश
[lomasa] IAST: LOMAŚA
I. A sage, who was a great story-teller. Many of the stories found as episodes in the पुराणस् were told by this sage. महाभारत gives the following details about him
लोमश was very virtuous and longlived. [mh-3-31-18 ] .
Once लोमश entered the court of इन्द्र and spoke to इन्द्र about अर्जुन sitting sharing a half of his seat before him. [mh-3-47-1 ] .
लोमश returned to काम्यकवन from the court of इन्द्र and gave युधिष्ठिर the messages from इन्द्र and अर्जुन . [mh-3-47-33 ] .
He prophesied to अर्जुन that he would get divine weapons from शिव . [mh-3-91-10 ] .
लोमश consoled युधिष्ठिर when he came to the forests in exile leaving all his happy surroundings in the country. [mh-3-94-17 ] .
He told धर्मपुत्र the story of अगस्त्य . [mh-3-96-1 ] .
लोमश told धर्मपुत्र the stories of श्रीराम and परशुराम . [mh-3-99-40 ] .
असुरस् defeated all the देवस् and the latter were perplexed. It was लोमश who then advised them to make weapons out of the bones of the sage दधीच . [mh-3-100-1 ] .
लोमश mentioned to the Devas a trick to kill वृत्रासुर . [mh-3-101-1 ] .
The story of भगीरथ , the episode of ऋष्यसृङ्ग etc. were all told by लोमश . [mh-3-103-1 ]
लोमश told युधिष्ठिर the story of the याग of King गय , the story of the river पयोष्णी , the glory of the mountain of वैडूर्य and the river नर्मदा , and the story of च्यवन the great sage. [mh-3-121-1 ]
He told the पाण्डवस् the story of मान्धाता . [mh-3-126-1 ] .
लोमश told युधिष्ठिर the story of सोमक and जन्तु . [mh-3-127-1 ] .
He praised the glory of the holy place यमुनातीर्थ , known as प्लक्षप्रस्रवण also, near कुरुक्षेत्र . Chapter 129, वन पर्व ).
It was लोमश who told the story of the emperor शिबि who gave his own flesh to protect a dove which went to him for refuge. [mh-3-130-1 ] .
लोमश told the story of the sage अष्टावक्र to the पाण्डवस् . [mh-3-133-1 ] .
He described the story of यवक्रीत and मेधावी to the पाण्डवस् . [mh-3-135-1 ] .
धर्मपुत्र heard the stories of भरद्वाज , रैभ्य , अर्वावसु and परावसु from लोमश . [mh-3-137-1 ] .
लोमश told धर्मपुत्र the story of नरकासुर and the incarnation of विष्णु as वराह . [mh-3-142-1 ] .
लोमश visited भीष्म lying on his bed of arrows. [mh-12-1-1 ] .
लोमश praised the glory of giving rice as charity, [mh-13-67-10 ] .
लोमश was a sage from the north. [mh-3-165-46 ] .
लोमश relieved many nymphs like प्रमोहिनी from their curses. (See under Pramohinī) .
A cat. (See under Ḍiṇḍika)
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