The Sanskrit term Bāhuśakti can be transliterated into English as Bahusakti or Bahushakti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Bāhuśakti (बाहुशक्ति) is the name of an ancient king from Kānyakubja, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 68. Accordingly as Lalitalocanā said to Naravāhanadatta: “... there was an excellent Brāhman in Kānyakubja, named Śūradatta, possessor of a hundred villages, respected by the King Bāhuśakti. And he had a devoted wife, named Vasumatī, and by her he begot a handsome son, named Vāmadatta”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Bāhuśakti, 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.

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bahuśakti (बहुशक्ति).—m. proper names, [Pañcatantra] 3, 11, 12; 183, 20. Ātmaśakti, i. e.

Bahuśakti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bahu and śakti (शक्ति).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Bahuśakti (बहुशक्ति):—[=bahu-śakti] [from bahu > bah] mfn. possessing great power

2) [v.s. ...] m. Name of a prince, [Pañcatantra]

3) Bāhuśakti (बाहुशक्ति):—[=bāhu-śakti] [from bāhu] m. ‘strong of a°’, Name of a king, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

[Sanskrit to German]

Bahushakti in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Shakti, Bahu.

Full-text: Vamadatta, Shuradatta.

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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter LXVIII < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]

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