aurva 1
aurva m. a descendant of Ūrva, N. of a Ṛishi RV. viii, 102, 4 TS. vii AitBr. MBh. &c
• (in later mythology he is called Aurva Bhārgava as son of Cyavana and grandson of Bhṛigu
• he is the subject of a legend told in MBh. i, 6802
• there it is said that the sons of Kṛitaviirya, wishing to destroy the descendants of Bhṛigu in order to recover the wealth left them by their father, slew even the children in the womb
• one of the women of the family of Bhṛigu, in order to preserve her embryo, secreted it in her thigh [ūru], whence the child at its birth was named Aurva
• on beholding whom, the sons of Kṛitaviirya were struck with blindness, and from whose wrath proceeded a flame that threatened to destroy the world, had not Aurva at the persuasion of the Bhārgavas cast it into the ocean, where it remained concealed, and having the face of a horse
• Aurva was afterwards preceptor to Sagara and gave him the Āgneyâstram, with which he conquered the barbarians who invaded his possessions
• cf. vaḍavā-mukha, vaḍavâgni)
• N. of a son of Vasishṭha Hariv.
• (ās), m. pl., N. of a class of Pitṛis TāṇḍyaBr. Lāṭy.
• (ī), f. a female descendant of Ūrva Kāś. on Pāṇ. 4-1, 73
• (mfn.) produced by or relating to the Ṛishi Aurva MBh. i, 387, &c
• m. the submarine fire (cast into the ocean by Aurva Bhārgava, above.)
aurva 2
aurva mf(ī)n. (fr. urvii), relating to the earth, of the earth VarBṛS.
• (am), n. fossil salt L.

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William