Bhartrimentha, Bhartṛmeṇṭha: 7 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Bhartṛmeṇṭha can be transliterated into English as Bhartrmentha or Bhartrimentha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Source: Shodhganga: A critical appreciation of soddhalas udayasundarikathaBhartṛmeṇṭha (भर्तृमेण्ठ).—He has been, held in high esteem by rhetoricians, The anthologies quote, verses under the name Meṇṭha or Hastipaka. Kalhaṇa mentions him as attracted to the court of Mātṛgupta of Kasmir. if Mātṛgupta’s date is taken as 430 A. D., Meṇṭha must have lived about that date.
His poem Hayagrīva is lost. Rājaśekhara calls him an incarnation of Vālmīki again appearring in the form of Bhavabhūti and himself as his later incarnation.
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’.
Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)
Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literatureBhartṛmeṇṭha (भर्तृमेण्ठ) is the name of an author of works dealing with prosodoy (chandas or chandaśśāstra) quoted by Kṣemendra (11th century) in his Suvṛttatilaka. The Suvṛttatilaka is a monumental work of Sanskrit prosody in which the author discusses 27 popular metres which were used frequently by the poets (e.g., Bhartṛmeṇṭha).
Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryBhartṛmeṇṭha (भर्तृमेण्ठ).—[masculine] [Name] of an author, [abstract] tā [feminine]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumBhartṛmeṇṭha (भर्तृमेण्ठ) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—often shortened into meṇṭha a poet who lived under Mātṛgupta. Rājat. 3, 260-62. He is mentioned by Maṅkha in Śrīkaṇṭhacarita 2, 53, by Kṣemendra in Suvṛttatilaka 3, 16. Śp. p. 59. 74. 77. [Sūktikarṇāmṛta by Śrīdharadāsa] [Subhāshitāvali by Vallabhadeva]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryBhartṛmeṇṭha (भर्तृमेण्ठ):—[=bhartṛ-meṇṭha] [from bhartṛ > bhara] m. Name of a poet (-tā f.), [Pracaṇḍa-pāṇḍava]
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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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Bhartri, Mentha.
Starts with: Bhartrimenthata.
Full-text: Mentha, Bhartrimenthata, Hayagrivavadha, Hayagrivadha.
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