Dhurjati

Dhurjati (धूर्जटि) is one of names of Shiva. Dhurjati was a courtier mentioned in Rajatarangini.

Variants

• Dhûrjati (धूर्जटि) - भगवान शिव का एक अन्य नाम धूर्जटि भी है।
• Dhūrjaṭī (धूर्जटी)
• Dhūrjaṭi (धूर्जटि)
• Dhurjaṭiḥ (धुर्जटिः)
• Dhurjaṭi (धुर्जटि)

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Dhur (Jat clan) + Jati (Jat clan) = Dhurjati. Ratanpur Stone Inscription Of Prithvideva II - (Kalachuri) Year 915 (=1163) mentions that Brahmadeva, a feudatory of Kalachuri king Prithvideva II, ....constructed a temple of Dhurjati (Siva) at Mallâla and excavated a tank, evidently at the same place. The religions merit of the former he assigned to his lord, Prithvideva. Besides these, he built ten shrines of Tryambaka (Siva) and dug two lotus-ponds at some place, the name of which is lost. (p.503)....Durjati is mentioned in Verse-23... (V. 23) In this Mallâla, which lenders the circle of regions fragrant with abundant [full-blown] lotuses, he constructed a temple of Dhûrjati (Siva) while like lavala flowers and (distinguished) by these banners set in motion by wind, which remove the perspiration, caused by fatigue, of the horses of the sun (p.510) .....Dhurjati is again mentioned in verse-33....(V. 33) He constructed at Nârâyanapura a temple of Dhûrjati (Siva), white like the moon, which with its flags scrapes the sky.

In Rajatarangini

Rajatarangini mentions in the reign of Kshemagupta, King of Kashmir, Among the courtiers, Hari and Dhurjati were prevented by their mother from bringing their wives, to the king, and so they became beggars. (Book VI,p.153)

In Kalachuri inscriptions

Ratanpur Stone Inscription Of Prithvideva II - (Kalachuri) Year 915 (=1163) mentions that Brahmadeva, a feudatory of Kalachuri king Prithvideva II, ....constructed a temple of Dhurjati (Siva) at Mallâla and excavated a tank, evidently at the same place. The religions merit of the former he assigned to his lord, Prithvideva. Besides these, he built ten shrines of Tryambaka (Siva) and dug two lotus-ponds at some place, the name of which is lost. (p.503)

Various definitions of Dhurjati

• Dhūrjaṭī (धूर्जटी) refers to one of the eight Yoginīs (yoginī-aṣṭaka) associated with Kāmākhya (corresponding to the eastern face of Bhairava), according to the Manthānabhairavatantra, a vast sprawling work that belongs to a corpus of Tantric texts concerned with the worship of the goddess Kubjikā.—[...] The eight Yoginīs (yoginyaṣṭaka): Viśālā, Pārthivā, Yakṣī, Dhūrjaṭī, Viṣabhakṣaṇī, Sarvasiddhipradā, Tuṣṭi, Icchā, Siddhipradāyakī.

• Dhūrjaṭī (धूर्जटी) is the name of a Yoginī mentioned in various Jaina manuscripts, often being part of a list of sixty-four such deities. How the cult of the Tantrik Yoginīs originated among the vegetarian Jainas is unknown. The Yoginīs (viz., Dhūrjaṭī) are known as attendants on Śiva or Pārvatī. But in the case of Jainism, we may suppose, as seen before that they are subordinates to Kṣetrapāla, the chief of the Bhairavas.

• Dhūrjaṭi (धूर्जटि) is an epithet of Śiva, as mentioned in the “Plate of Lalitaśūradeva” (853-854 A.D.). Accordingly, “...through the grace of the holy Dhūrjaṭi (Śiva) who has destroyed the strength of the dense darkness that robs all discrimination, by removing it with the shower of filaments which are the abundant wide-spread pure rays of the lotuses which are his feet, red with the intoxication from imbibing the bright lustre of the lights that bring about a uniform white colour, which are the crores of the points of the beautiful crowns and coronets on the innumerable heads of all the lords of the gods, demons and men, bowed down under the weight of the burden of devotion; (and) whose matted hair is washed by the Ganges”......This inscribed copper plate (mentioning Dhūrjaṭi) is preserved in the temple of Yogabadarī (one of the Pañcabadarī) at Pāṇḍukeśvar (Pāṇḍukeśvara). The date is estimated 22nd December 853 A.D. and it records the grant of some land which was in the possession of a person named Denduvāka and was lying within the jurisdiction of the administrative unit called Thappalasāri forming a part of the viṣaya or district of Kārttikeyapura.

• Dhurjaṭi (धुर्जटि).—(dhūrjaṭiḥ) an epithet of Śiva; धूर्जटिः पातु युष्मान् (dhūrjaṭiḥ pātu yuṣmān) Ve.1.3. ...

• Derivable forms: Dhurjaṭiḥ (धुर्जटिः).

• Dhurjaṭi is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dhur and jaṭi (जटि).

• Dhūrjaṭi (धूर्जटि).— (curtailed from dhūrjaṭin), and dhūrjaṭin dhūrjaṭin, i. e. dhur -jaṭā + in, m. A name of Śiva, Mahābhārata 7, 9621.

• Dhūrjaṭi (धूर्जटि).—[masculine] [Epithet] of Rudra-Śiva.

• Dhūrjaṭi (धूर्जटि) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—poet. [Sūktikarṇāmṛta by Śrīdharadāsa]

• Dhūrjaṭi (धूर्जटि):—[=dhūr-jaṭi] [from dhūr] m. ‘having matted locks like a burden’, Name of Rudra-Śiva, [Mahābhārata; Kathāsaritsāgara; Hitopadeśa] etc. (ṭin, [Mahābhārata xiii, 7510])

• [v.s. ...] Name of a poet (also -rāja), [Catalogue(s)]