Gangalahari, Gaṅgālaharī, Ganga-lahari: 6 definitions
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Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraGaṅgālaharī (गङ्गालहरी) is the name of a horse (aśva) in the army of king Vikramāditya from Ujjayinī, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 121. Accordingly, “... and the following speeches of the military officers, assigning elephants and horses, were heard in the neighbourhood of the city [Ujjayinī] when the kings started, and within the city itself when the sovereign started: ‘[...] and Samarasiṃha [must take] the white mare Gaṅgālaharī of pure Sindh breed...’”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Gaṅgālaharī, 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.
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 dictionaryGaṅgālaharī (गङ्गालहरी).—Name of poem by Jagannātha Paṇḍita.
Gaṅgālaharī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms gaṅgā and laharī (लहरी).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum1) Gaṅgālaharī (गङ्गालहरी) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Pheh. 8 (and—[commentary]). 11. Rādh. 46. Oppert. 6568.
—by Gaṇeśa Prasāda. Oudh. Xii, 38.
—by Jagannātha Paṇḍita. L. 2873. K. 204. B. 2, 78. Ben. 44. H. 58. 59. Oppert. Ii, 1741. 2152. 2472. 5492. 8193. See Gaṅgāstotra.
—[commentary] by Dalapatirāma. H. 59.
—[commentary] by Sadāśiva. Oppert. Ii, 8194.
2) Gaṅgālaharī (गङ्गालहरी):—stotra. Stein 220 (inc.).
—or gaṅgāpīyūṣalaharī or pīyūṣalaharī (q. v.) by Jagannātha Paṇḍita. Fl. 87. Peters. 4, 26. Rgb. 433.
—[commentary] by Dalapatirāma. Peters. 4, 26.
—[commentary] by Sadāśiva. Rgb. 433.
3) Gaṅgālaharī (गङ्गालहरी):—and—[commentary] by Nārāyaṇatīrthasvāmin. Stein 220.
4) Gaṅgālaharī (गङ्गालहरी):—by Jagannātha Paṇḍita.
—[commentary] by Sadāśiva, son of Māṇīka Bhaṭṭa. Ulwar 2092. Extr. 616.
5) Gaṅgālaharī (गङ्गालहरी):—or pīyūṣalaharī by Jagannātha Paṇḍita. Ak 480-483. Bd. 384. L.. 441-443. Peters. 5, 338. 339. 6, 332. C. by a pupil of Kṛṣṇa Bhaṭṭa. Peters. 5, 338. C. by Dalapatirāma. Peters. 6, 332. C. by Durgārāmasuta. Ak 481. C. by Sadāśiva, son of Māṇīka Bhaṭṭa. Ak 480. Hpr. 2, 46.
Gaṅgālaharī has the following synonyms: Gaṅgāpīyūṣalaharī.
6) Gaṅgālaharī (गङ्गालहरी):—See Gaṅgāpīyūṣalaharī.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Gaṅgālaharī (गङ्गालहरी):—[=gaṅgā-laharī] [from gaṅgā > gaṅga] f. ‘wave of the Ganges’, Name of a work
2) [v.s. ...] Name of a statue, [Kathāsaritsāgara cxxi, 278.]
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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: Lahari, Ganga.
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