Name Jubanashwa - Story behind it...

“What is the meaning of your name?” , This is a hundred times question to me. Before I became matured enough to ask the same question to my grand father, he passed away. Because he only decided the name for me. I tried a lot to get the answer in my childhood, but I didn’t found enough evidence to convince myself. Recently my father gave some paper cutting from “Bhagavata Purana” which cleared a lot about the word “Jubanashwa”.

The name is so complicated (sounds Japanese also) that whenever I approach some new person, I found difficult to introduce myself with my full name. Either I introduce myself with my surname “Mishra” or with my nick name ”Jiban”. It’s very easier for me and for them to remember as well. And I don’t want to listen the same hundred times asked question once again!!

Many friends give some apithet like jubi, jiban, jeevan, mishraji, jubaneshwar, jubana, partner etc. It was a height when my PL once sent me a mail like “Hi J”. I felt like, no yaar my name is not that much difficult that someone need to call me with a single alphabet. I got so many name in my life, I was thinking I will put all in “Jubanashwa Sahasra Naam”. Ha ha…

Once my English professor asked me the same question, “What is the meaning of you name? “. And the answer instantly came out from me, as “jawani ka ghoda”. Everyone in the class laughed, and professor staring at us to keep the class silent. But the thing is like, I tried to devide my name with sanskrit’s rupaka karmadharaya samasa. It is the best way to know the meaning of a Sanskrit name. “joubana rupaka ashwa jasya sah”. यौबन रूपक अश्व यस्य सह. The nearest word I discover in English is “juvenile”, very much similar with Sanskrit.

In bhagavata purana, The character jubanashwa comes twice, with different people. Here is the Father and their sons name with different generation level. 1. kakussa 2. puranjaya 3. pruthu 4. biswagandhi 5. Chandra 6. jubanashwa 7. sribassha 8. bruhadashwa 9. kubalayaashwa 10. uttanka 11. dhundhura 12. drudhashwa, kapilashwa, vadrashwa 13. nikumba 14. bahulashwa 15. krusaswa 16. shenajita 17. jubanashwa 18. mandhata. In this eighteen gerenation jubanashwa name comes twice. But second one king jubanashwa is more well-known as father of mandhata.

In a brief, Jubanashwa is the ancient king of raghubansha dynasty. He has not having any progeny, so jubanashwa with his 100 queens they went for taking advise from the sage. All the sage did the yangya to fulfill his wish and put the consecrated water in a goblet. In that night thirsty king jubanashwa drank that water without knowing. The next day morning when the sage knew about this thing, they came to know about the machinations of Lord Vishnu. In this way king Jubanashwa delivered the infant, called Mandhata.