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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (kavya)

Pāṇḍurita (पाण्डुरित) refers to “pale-colored (powdered flour-cakes)”, according to Bāṇa’s Kādambarī (p. 225).—Accordingly, while describing the shire of the Goddess Caṇḍikā, “[Then the portal to the sanctum sanctorum, a riot of colour and form:] She was being illuminated by the entrance, on which there were hanging cloths reddened by lamp-smoke, a row of bracelets made of peacock-throats festooned [over it], a garland of bells closely-set and pale with powdered flour-cakes (piṣṭa-piṇḍa-pāṇḍurita), which supported two door-panels, [studded] with tin lion heads with thick, iron pins in their centres, barricaded with an ivory-rod bolt, carrying [what seemed to be] a necklace of sparkling bubbles that were mirrors oozing yellow, blue and red [light]”.

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

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

1) Pāṇḍurita (पाण्डुरित):—[from pāṇḍuraya > pāṇḍu] mfn. white-coloured, [Kādambarī]

2) [v.s. ...] Balar.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Pāṇḍurita (पाण्डुरित) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Paṃḍuria, Paṃḍullaiya.

[Sanskrit to German]

Pandurita 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Pāṃḍurita (ಪಾಂಡುರಿತ):—[adjective] that has turned or is being white.

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Pāṃḍurita (ಪಾಂಡುರಿತ):—[noun] that which has turned or is white.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Ends with: Paripandurita.

Full-text: Paripandurita, Pamduria, Pamdullaiya, Pista, Pinda, Pishtapinda.

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