Durgastotra, Durgāstotra, Durga-stotra: 4 definitions
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In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (kavya)Durgāstotra (दुर्गास्तोत्र) refers to a “hymn to Durgā”, according to Bāṇa’s Kādambarī (p. 226).—There are apparently several Tantric rites that Bāṇa pejoratively associates with the priest: he, “the ageing Draviḍa religious man” “demeans Durgā with his prayers for the boon of sovereignty over the Southern lands”; “he had copied a hymn to Durgā (durgāstotra) on a strip of cloth”, “he had collected palm-leaf manuscripts of spells, Tantras and jugglery the letters of which were written in red lac and fumigated with smoke” [...].
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’.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum1) Durgāstotra (दुर्गास्तोत्र) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Poona. 598. Oppert. 3636. Ii, 8236.
—from Devīrahasya. Ben. 44. 45.
—from Bhīṣmaparvan (ch. 23). W. p. 108. Burnell. 200^a.
—from Virāṭaparvan. Burnell. 200^a.
—from Harivaṃśa. Burnell. 200^a.
2) Durgāstotra (दुर्गास्तोत्र):—from the Bhīṣmaparvan. Stein 197.
—by Chavinātha. Peters. 4, 42.
Durgāstotra (दुर्गास्तोत्र):—[=durgā-stotra] [from durgā > dur] n. ‘praise of D°’, Name of [work]
[Sanskrit to German]
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Stotra, Durga.
Starts with: Durgastotratika.
Full-text: Kushmanda, Chavinatha, Kuhaka, Dhuma, Pushtika, Talapattra, Samgrahin, Tantramantra, Devirahasya.
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