කුවේර රජ
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මෙම ලිපිය වැඩිදියුණු කළයුතුව ඇත. ඔබ මෙම මාතෘකාව පිලිබඳව දැනුවත්නම්, නව කරුණු එක්කිරීමට දායකවන්න. |
| කුවේර / වෛශ්රවන | |
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| රජ | |
[[File: |frameless|alt=]]Kubera at the San Antonio Museum of Art |
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| පූර්වප්රාප්තිකයා | ? |
| අනුප්රපාප්තිකයා | රාවණා රජ |
| පියා | වෛශ්රව |
| මව | [[]] |
කුවේර රජ (Sanskrit: कुबेर;සැකිල්ල:Lang-en) දැනට ශ්රී ලංකා නම් වන භූමියේ අතීතයේ පැවති යක්ෂ රාජධානිය පාලනය කල රජෙකි. හින්දු ජනයා, මෙතුමා ධනයට අධිපති ලෙස දේවත්වයෙන් සලකන අතර ධනපති නමින්ද හඳුන්වයි[1].
කුවේර වෛශ්රව ඍෂි වරයාගේ පුත්රයෙකු බැවින් වෛශ්රවන නම්විය. මොහුහෙන් පසු රජවූයේ බාල සොහෙයුරු රාවණය[2]. The banks of river Narmada is described as the birth place of Yaksha king Kubera (Vaisravana), where his father Visravas, who was a sage, lived. It is also a territory of Gandharvas. (Mahabharata: 3,89).
[සංස්කරණය] හින්දු මත
He is one of the Guardians of the directions , representing the Uttara-disha, meaning north of 4 directions in Sanskrit.
He is said to have performed austerities for a thousand years[3], in reward for which Brahma, the Creator, gave him immortality and made him god of wealth, guardian of all the treasures of the earth, the nidhi which he was to give out to whom they were destined.
When Brahma appointed him God of Riches, he gave him Lanka (Ceylon) as his capital, and presented him, according to the Ramayana, with the vehicle pushpaka, which was of immense size and ‘moved at the owner’s will at marvellous speed’. When Ravana captured Lanka, Kubera moved to his city of Alaka, in the Himalaya and established his Yaksha Kingdom there.
Also, his house was believed to be the abode of adilakshmi, the goddess of wealth who, pleased by his devotion, gave him immense wealth making him nideesha or the keeper of riches.
Kubera also credited money to Venkateshwara or Vishnu for his marriage with Padmavati[4]. In remembrance of this, the reason devotees going to Tirupati donate money in Venkateshwara's Hundi so that he can pay back to Kubera. According to the Vishnupuran this process will go on till the end of Kali yuga.
[සංස්කරණය] See also
[සංස්කරණය] References
| Preceded by: Malyavan |
Emperor of Lanka | Succeeded by: රාවණා රජ |
