Anantavati, Anantavatī, Āṉantavāti: 1 definition
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Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraAnantavatī (अनन्तवती) is the wife of king Kanakavarṣa from Kuṇḍina (a city situated in Vidarbha), according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 55. Accordingly, as the painter Roladeva said to king Kanakavarṣa: “... and he [Kanakavarṣa] has a queen named Anantavatī, dearer to him than life, and by her there was born to him a daughter named Madanasundarī”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Anantavatī, 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: Madanasundari, Kundina, Kundinapura, Devashakti.
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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
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