Nagavana, Naga-vana, Nāgavana: 12 definitions
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Nagavana means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India, Marathi. 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 Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexNāgavana (नागवन).—East of Añjana; otherwise Ekamūla; also between the Vindhyas and the Ganges; also the country of Karūṣas.*
- * Vāyu-purāṇa 69. 238.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraNāgavana (नागवन) is the name of a garden according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 34. Accordingly, “now once on a time the prince, with his ministers, and accompanied by his beloved, went on a pilgrimage to a garden called Nāgavana. There a certain merchant’s wife fell in love with Gomukha, and being repulsed, tried to kill him by offering to him a poisoned drink”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Nāgavana, 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’.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA pleasance near Hatthigama, belonging to Uggagahapati. It was there that he first met the Buddha and was converted. A.iv.213; AA.ii.782.
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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical GlossaryNāga-vana.—(IE 8-4), an elephant-forest. Note: nāga-vana is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
Source: Ancient Buddhist Texts: Geography of Early BuddhismNāgavana (नागवन) is the name of a forest situated in Majjhimadesa (Middle Country) of ancient India, as recorded in the Pāli Buddhist texts (detailing the geography of ancient India as it was known in to Early Buddhism).—Nāgavana is in the Vajji countries and is near Hatthigāma.
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
Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarynāgavana : (nt.) an iron-wood grove or a forest where there are elephants.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryNāgavana refers to: elephant-grove Dh. 324; DhA. IV, 15;
Note: nāgavana is a Pali compound consisting of the words nāga and vana.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarynāgavaṇa (नागवण).—f nāgavaṇūka f (nāgaviṇēṃ) Plundering, spoiling, stripping, pilling. v ghē, ghāla. 2 Plundered state.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishnāgavaṇa (नागवण).—f nāgavaṇūka f Plundering, spoiling. Plundered state.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Nāgavana (नागवन):—[=nāga-vana] [from nāga] n. (in [compound]) e° and forests or a f° of e°, [Viṣṇu-smṛti, viṣṇu-sūtra, vaiṣṇava-dharma-śāstra iii, 16]
2) [v.s. ...] Name of a place, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
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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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Matangalila and Hastyayurveda (study) (by Chandrima Das)
Elephants in Epigraphic Records (Introduction) < [Chapter 2]
Concluding Remarks < [Chapter 5]
Natural Abodes of Elephants: Forests and woods < [Chapter 3]
The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)
Biography (7): Uggata, the Householder < [Chapter 45a - The Life Stories of Male Lay Disciples]
Elephantology and its Ancient Sanskrit Sources (by Geetha N.)
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)