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Kavya (poetry)

Source: academia.edu: Bhoja’s Mechanical Garden

Bhūtavāhana (भूतवाहन) or Bhūtavāhanayantra refers to “(mechanical) beings animated by a kind of life force”, as mentioned in the 12th century Lokapaññati (“description of the world”), a Pali text from Burma.—[...] Roma, according to the story, was filled with makers of automata—what the text calls literally “machines that were the vehicles of spirits,” bhūtavāhana-yanta, or mechanical beings animated by a kind of life force. In Roma, these machines carried out many functions, like commerce (buying and selling), agriculture, and protection. The secrets of this technology were fiercely guarded, and the machine-makers (yantakāras) of Roma were expected to report periodically to the royal court. If there was any prolonged absence, an automaton was sent to hunt down and kill the errant artisan, preventing the knowledge from spreading to other realms.

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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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bhūtavāhana (भूतवाहन).—an epithet of Śiva.

Derivable forms: bhūtavāhanaḥ (भूतवाहनः).

Bhūtavāhana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bhūta and vāhana (वाहन).

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

Bhūtavāhana (भूतवाहन):—[=bhūta-vāhana] [from bhūta > bhū] mfn. ‘having the Bhūtas for his vehicle’, Name of Śiva, [Śivagītā, ascribed to the padma-purāṇa]

[Sanskrit to German]

Bhutavahana 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: Bhuta, Vahana.

Starts with: Bhutavahanasarathi, Bhutavahanayantra.

Full-text: Bhutivahana, Bhutavahanasarathi, Yantakara, Bhutavahanayantra.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing Bhutavahana, Bhūtavāhana, Bhuta-vahana, Bhūta-vāhana; (plurals include: Bhutavahanas, Bhūtavāhanas, vahanas, vāhanas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

The Linga Purana (by J. L. Shastri)

Chapter 98 - Thousand names of Śiva (Sahasranāma) < [Section 1 - Uttarabhāga]

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