Sanatana Tirtha

Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R)

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Sanatana (सनातन) is a Tirtha mentioned in Mahabharata located near Naimisharanya in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Variants

• Sanatana Tirtha सनातन तीर्थ (AS, p.932)

Jat clans

• Sanatana

History

Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English Translation

1) Sanātana (सनातन) or Bhṛṅgiriṭi is the name of a leader of Gaṇas (Gaṇapa or Gaṇeśvara or Gaṇādhipa) who came to Kailāsa, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.1.20. Accordingly, after Śiva decided to become the friend of Kubera:—“[...] The leaders of Gaṇas revered by the whole world and of high fortune arrived there. [...] Lokāntaka, Dīptātmā and the lord Daityāntaka, lord Bhṛṅgīriṭi and the glorious Devadevapriya, Aśani, Bhānuka and Sanātana each with sixty-four crores; Nandīśvara the supreme chief of Gaṇas, and Mahābala each with hundred crores. [...]”.

These [viz., Sanātana] and other leaders of Gaṇas [viz., Gaṇapas] were all powerful (mahābala) and innumerable (asaṃkhyāta). [...] The Gaṇa chiefs and other noble souls of spotless splendour eagerly reached there desirous of seeing Śiva. Reaching the spot they saw Śiva, bowed to and eulogised him.

2) Sanātana (सनातन) refers to “imperishable” (the eternal principle), according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.2.16. Accordingly as Brahmā narrated to Nārada:—“[...] On hearing these words of mine—of Brahmā—in the presence of Viṣṇu, Śiva, the lord of worlds spoke to me with his face beaming with a smile: [...] Sometimes I will be thinking about Śiva, my own form of splendour, the eternal principle which the scholars well versed in the Vedas call Imperishable (sanātana). When I go in trance, O Brahmā, in that meditation, damned be she who causes an impediment therein”.

Source: archive.org: Puranic Encyclopedia

1) Sanātana (सनातन).—A hermit. It is mentioned in Mahābhārata, Sabhā Parva, Chapter 4, Stanza 16, that this hermit shone in the court of Yudhiṣṭhira.

2) Sanātana (सनातन).—One of the Sanakādis.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

1a) Sanātana (सनातन).—A mind-born son of Brahmā;1 a son of Kaṅka, an avatār of Śiva; got mokṣa by jñānam;2 a Brahmaṛṣi.3

1b) An epithet of Viṣṇu.*

Reference - https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/sanatana

सनातन तीर्थ

सनातन तीर्थ (AS, p.932): सनातन तीर्थ महाभारत अनुशासनपर्व 25, 32 उल्लिखित तीर्थ है- 'मतंगवाप्यां यः स्नायादेकरावेणसिद्धयति विगाहतिह्यनालंबमंधकं वै सनातनम्।'. इस तीर्थ का उल्लेख नैमिषारण्य के ठीक पूर्व है, जिससे इसकी स्थिति नैमिषारण्य (उत्तर प्रदेश) के निकट मानी जा सकती है।