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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (kavya)

Bhojapati (भोजपति) refers to “lord Bhoja”, according to Kālidāsa’s Raghuvaṃśa verse 7.20.—Accordingly: “There lord Bhoja’s [i.e., bhojapati] venerable chaplain, who was like fire, offered clarified butter and other things to the fire, and having made the same [fire] witness to the marriage he wed the bride and the groom”.

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bhojapati (भोजपति).—

1) king Bhoja.

2) an epithet of Kamsa.

Derivable forms: bhojapatiḥ (भोजपतिः).

Bhojapati is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bhoja and pati (पति).

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

1) Bhojapati (भोजपति):—[=bhoja-pati] [from bhoja > bhoga] m. the king of the Bhojas, king Bhoja, [Raghuvaṃśa]

2) [v.s. ...] Name of Kaṃsa, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

3) [v.s. ...] = -rāja, [Colebrooke]

[Sanskrit to German]

Bhojapati 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: Bhoja, Pati.

Full-text: Ranarangamalla, Ranaranga.

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