Devasvamin, Devasvāmin, Deva-svamin: 5 definitions

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[«previous next»] — Devasvamin in Kavya glossary
Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

1) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्) and Karambaka are two Brāhman brothers from Vetasa. Their story was narrated to Vasudattā (mother of Vararuci), according to the Kathāsaritsāgara chapter 2. Vararuci was an incarnation of Puṣpadanta (a subordinate of Śiva), who was cursed by Pārvatī for overhearing Śiva narrating the adventures of the seven vidhyādharas.

2) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्) is the son of Harisvāmin: a Brāhman from Ujjayinī, as mentioned in the fifth story of the Vetālapañcaviṃśati in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 79. Accordingly, “... in Ujjayinī there lived an excellent Brāhman, the dear dependent and minister of King Puṇyasena, and his name was Harisvāmin. That householder had by his wife, who was his equal in birth, an excellent son like himself, Devasvāmin by name. And he also had born to him a daughter, famed for her matchless beauty, rightly named Somaprabhā”.

3) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्) is the name of a Brāhman from Vārāṇasī, as mentioned in the thirteenth story of the Vetālapañcaviṃśati in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 87. Accordingly, “... there is a city of the name of Vārāṇasī, the abode of Śiva. In it there lived a Brāhman, named Devasvāmin, honoured by the king. And that rich Brāhman had a son named Harisvāmin; and he had an exceedingly lovely wife, named Lāvaṇyavatī”.

4) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्) is the name of a Brāḥman from Ujjayinī according to the eighteenth story of the Vetālapañcaviṃśati in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 92. Accordingly, “... in that city [Ujjayinī] there was a learned Brāhman, named Devasvāmin, who had offered many sacrifices, and possessed great wealth, and who was highly honoured by the king, whose name was Candraprabha. In time there was born to that Brāhman a son, named Candrasvāmin, and he, though he had studied the sciences, was, when he grew up, exclusively devoted to the vice of gambling”.

5) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्) is the name of a Brāhman from Candrapura, as mentioned in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 123. Accordingly, “... there was in a town named Candrapura a Brāhman named Devasvāmin: he had a very beautiful daughter named Kamalalocanā; and he had a young Brāhman pupil named Kusumāyudha, and that pupil and his daughter loved one another well”.

6) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्), son of Agnisvāmin, is the name of a Brāhman from Pāṭaliputra, as mentioned in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 124. Accordingly, “... there lived in Pāṭaliputra a Brāhman of the name of Agnisvāmin, a great maintainer of the sacrificial fire; and I am his son, Devasvāmin by name. And I married the daughter of a Brāhman who lived in a distant land, and because she was a child I left her in her father’s house”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Devasvāmin, 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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[«previous next»] — Devasvamin in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Āśvalāyanaśrautasūtrabhāṣya. Both Tālavṛntanivāsin and Nārāyaṇa used his
—[commentary]. Āśvalāyanagṛhyasūtrabhāṣya. Baudhāyanasūtrabhāṣya. Np. Vii, 6. He is quoted by Hemādri, Mādhavācārya, Puruṣottama in Gotrapravaramañjarī, and in Śrāddhamayūkha.

2) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्):—astronomer. Quoted by Varāhamihira Oxf. 329^a.

3) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्):—Bhaktikalpataru. Khn. 56.

4) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्):—Agniṣṭomaprayoga.

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

1) Devasvāmin (देवस्वामिन्):—[=deva-svāmin] [from deva] m. ‘lord of the gods’, Name of sub voce Brāhmans, [Kathāsaritsāgara; Vetāla-pañcaviṃśatikā]

2) [v.s. ...] of an astronomer, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā vii, 7]

3) [v.s. ...] of a [Scholiast or Commentator] on [Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra] etc., [Catalogue(s)]

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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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