Alankaraprabha, Alaṅkāraprabhā: 1 definition
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Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraAlaṅkāraprabhā (अलङ्कारप्रभा) is the wife of Hemaprabha: a king from the city Kāñcanaśṛṅga, situated on the mountain named Himavat, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 35. Accordingly, “and in it [Kāñcanaśṛṅga] there lives a king of the Vidyādharas named Hemaprabha, who is a firm votary of the husband of Umā. And though he has many wives he has only one queen, whom he loves dearly, named Alaṅkāraprabhā, as dear to him as Rohiṇī to the moon. With her [Alaṅkāraprabhā] the virtuous king used to rise up in the morning and bathe, and worship duly Śiva and his wife Gaurī, and then he would descend to the world of men, and give to poor Brāhmans every day a thousand gold pieces mixed with jewels”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Alaṅkāraprabhā, 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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Full-text: Dattasharman, Pataliputra, Brahmanavara, Shatrunjaya, Ratnaprabha, Nagasharman, Vajraprabha, Vikramatunga, Hemaprabha.
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