Dantapura, Danta-pura: 8 definitions

Introduction
In Buddhism
1. Theravada
India history
Languages
1. Sanskrit
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Introduction:

Dantapura means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper Names

Capital of the Kalinga country, reigned over by King Sattabhu, contemporary with Renu (D.ii.235f). Other kings mentioned are Nalikira (J.v.144) and Karandu (J.iii.376ff). The city is mentioned also in the Kurudhamma Jataka (Also DhA.iv.89; see also Mtu.iii.361, 364), the Cullakalinga Jataka, and the Kalingabodhi Jataka (q.v.). The left eye tooth of the Buddha was in Dantapura until taken to Ceylon by Dantakumara. It had been handed over by Khema Thera (Dathavamsa ii.52, 57; for its identification see CAGI.593) to Brahmadatta, king of Dantapura.

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

India history and geography

Source: archive.org: Geography in Ancient Indian inscriptions

Dantapura (दन्तपुर).—The place has been variously identified. Cunningham located it at Rajahmundry. Subba Rao places it in the neighbourhood of Sirkakulam. Sylvain Levi identified it with Paloura of Ptolemy. N. L. Dey suggested that Dantapura may be identical with Danton on the riser Kasai in Midnapore district. He also supported the traditional view of its identification with Puri in Orissa. S. Krishnaswami Alyangar identifies it with Kaliṅganagara. A. W. Oldham suggests to look for Dantapura somewhere near the embouchure of the Vaṃśadhāra either at or near the ancient Siṃhapura.

It is generally believed that Dantapura survives in the name in that of the fort of Dantavakra near Srikakulam, north-east of Visakhapatnam, and near the mouth ofthe river Languliya. It was the capital of Kaliṅga. The Jirjingi plates refer to it as beautiful city lying with Amarivatī, the city of Gods. The place had a Buddhistic association in that the left canine tooth of the Buddha is said to have been brought over there by one of the Master’s disciples and a stupa was built over that. Subsequently, the tooth was taken away to Ceylon. The Jātakas refer several times to this city, which fact doubtlessly establishes its antiquity. Dantapura may be Pliny’s Dandagula ,lying six hundred twenty-five miles from the mouth of the Gaṅgā. The Mahābhārata mentions the city Dantakura, where Lord Kṛṣṇa crushed the Kaliṅgas.

Source: archive.org: Tribes in Ancient India

Dantapura (दन्तपुर).—The Jātakas also refer to the capital city of Kaliṅga which was Dantapuranagara which is probably identical with Dantakura mentioned in the Mahābhārata, Dantapura of inscriptions.

Source: Ancient Buddhist Texts: Geography of Early Buddhism

Dantapura (दन्तपुर) is the name of an ancient capital city of Kaliṅga: a locality situated in Dakkhiṇāpatha (Deccan) or “southern district” of ancient India, as recorded in the Pāli Buddhist texts (detailing the geography of ancient India as it was known in to Early Buddhism).—According to the Mahābhārata the ancient Kaliṅga country seems to have comprised modern Orissa to the south of the Vaitaraṇī and the sea coast southward as far as Vizagapatam and its capital was Rājapura (Śāntiparva, IV). According to the Mahāvastu Dantapura which is mentioned by Yuan Chwang as a city of the Kaliṅga country was a capital city. Evidently it was the capital of the Kaliṅga kingdom (according to Mahāvastu), and existed ages before the Buddha.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Dantapura (दन्तपुर).—nt. (= Pali id.), name of the capital of Kaliṅga (only in Buddh. works): Kaliṅgeṣu °raṃ nāma nagaraṃ Mahāvastu iii.361.12; 364.3; in Mahāvastu iii.208.16 (verse) read Dantapuraṃ for ataḥ puraṃ, mss. antaḥpuraṃ, and trans- fer to line 17 before Kaliṅgānāṃ; see the same verse in Pali Dīghanikāya (Pali) ii.235.19.

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

Dantapura (दन्तपुर):—[=danta-pura] [from danta] n. ‘city of Buddha’s tooth’, the capital of Kaliṅga, [Jaina literature etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Dantapura 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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Lower Kṛṣṇā Valley (32): Dantapuram < [Chapter 2 - Amarāvatī and other Archaeological Sites of Ancient Andhra Pradesh]

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Appendix 6 - Division of the great earth of Jambudvīpa into seven parts < [Chapter VIII - The Bodhisattvas]

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Jataka 479: Kāliṅga-Bodhi-jātaka < [Volume 4]

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