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    andhakūpa

    See also andhakūpaḥ.

    Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 39.
    andhakūpa m. (-paḥ) A blind well.

    E. andha, and kūpa a well: one of which the mouth is hidden.

    Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 31, col. 2.
    andha-kūpa (ṣaḥ) 1. m. A concealed
    well, a blind well.
    ☞ p. 912, col. 2.
    andha-kūpa (paḥ) 1. m. A hell.

    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 132, col. 1.
    andhakūpa Karmadh. m. (-paḥ) 1 A blind well, a well filled up

    with rubbish or one the mouth of which is hidden. 2 The

    name of a hell(?). E. andha and kūpa.

    Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 25.
    andhakūpa m. a covered (lit. blind) well.

    Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 18, col. 2.
    andhakūpa andha-kūpa, m. hidden well, pitfall;
    -tamasa, n. thick darkness; -tā, f., -tva, n.
    ness; N. of a hell.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 44, col. 3.
    andha—kūpa m. a well of which the mouth is hidden
    ☞ p. 44, col. 3.
    a well over-grown with plants, &c.
    ☞ p. 44, col. 3.
    a particular hell.

    Śabdasāgara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 33, col. 1.
    andhakūpa

    m. (-paḥ) A blind well.

    E. andha, and kūpa a well: one of which the
    mouth is hidden.

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 257.
    andhakūpa (andha 1,b. + kūpa) m. ein überwachsener Brunnen, dessen Oeffnung versteckt ist, TRIK. 1, 2, 27. KATHĀS. 4, 120. VET. 22, 5.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 65, col. 2.
    andhakūpa m. blinder — , verdeckter Brunnen 128,2.

    Cappeller Sanskrit Wörterbuch

    ☞ p. 17, col. 2.
    andhakūpa m. verdeckter Brunnen.

    Vācaspatyam

    ☞ p. 210, col. 1.
    andhakūpa pu0 andhayatītyandhaḥ sa cāsau kūpaḥ . sāndhakāre
    kūpe . andhaḥ kūpo yatra 7 ba0 . narakabhede yathā
    “yastviha vai bhūtānāmīśvarakalpitavṛttīnāmaviviktaparavya-
    thānāṃ svayaṃ puruṣopakalpitavṛttirviviktaparavyathovyathā-
    mācarati sa paratrāndhakūpe tadabhidroheṇa nipatati .. tatra-
    hyasau taistairjantubhiḥ paśumṛgapaṃkṣisarīsṛpairmaśakayūkamat-
    kuṇamakṣikādibhiḥ, ye ke cābhidrugdhāstaiśca sarvvato'bhi-
    druhyamāṇastamasi vihatanidrānirvṛtiralabdhāvasthānaḥ pari-
    krāmati yathā kuśarīre jīvaḥ īti bhāga0 5 ska0 .
    andhasya dṛṣṭyabhāvasya kūpa iva . mohe . sahi sarvvadṛṣṭya-
    bhāvasyākaraḥ iti tasya tathātvam .

    The Purāṇa Index

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 68.
    Andhakūpa — one of the 28 hells. Those who do not

    follow the prescribed course of life and who have no sym-

    pathy for the sufferings they inflict on others are subject

    to affliction in this hell.

    Bhā. V. 26. 7 and 17.

    Puranic Encyclopedia

    ☞ p. 36, col. 2.
    ANDHAKŪPA (M). In the Devī Bhāgavata Mahāviṣṇu

    describes 28 hells to Nārada, and Andhakūpam is one

    of them. (see Naraka). Andhakūpa is reserved for those

    who kill either Brahmins or devotees of God or Sannyā-

    sins (holy people). This hell abounds in cruel beasts

    like the bear and leopard, evil birds like the eagle,

    reptiles like the snake and scorpion and dirty insects

    like bugs and mosquitos. The sinner will have to put

    up with all these sufferings in hell till the period of his

    punishment expires. (Devī Bhāgavata, Aṣṭama

    Skandha).