Jƌna-siddhi
Jnanasiddhi, Jñānasiddhi, Jnana-siddhi: 4 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Jñānasiddhi (ज्ञानसिद्धि):—[=jñāna-siddhi [from jñāna > jñā] m. Name of a man, [Kathāsaritsāgara.liv, 18.]
Jñānasiddhi (ज्ञानसिद्धि) is one of the four heavenly beings from Nārikela, as mentioned in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 54. Accordingly, as four heavenly figures said to Naravāhanadatta: “... and in it Nārikela there are four mountains with splendid expanses of land, named Maināka, Vṛṣabha, Cakra and Balāhaka; in those four we four live... the third is Jñānasiddhi, who knows the past, the present and the future... We have now gathered these golden lotuses and are going to offer them to the god, the husband of Śrī, in Śvetadvīpa. For we are all of us devoted to him, and it is by his favour that we possess rule over those mountains of ours, and prosperity, accompanied with supernatural power”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Jñānasiddhi, is a famous Sanskrit epic story revolving around prince Naravāhanadatta and his quest to become the emperor of the vidyādharas (celestial beings). The work is said to have been an adaptation of Guṇāḍhya’s Bṛhatkathā consisting of 100,000 verses, which in turn is part of a larger work containing 700,000 verses.
