The Sanskrit term Bṛhadgṛha can be transliterated into English as Brhadgrha or Brihadgriha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Shodhganga: The Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara

Bṛhadgṛha (बृहद्गृह) is the name a locality mentioned in Rājaśekhara’s 10th-century Kāvyamīmāṃsā.—In the Kāvyamīmāṃsā Rājaśekhara mention it a mountain in the eastern India. It may be represent the Mount Everest in the eastern range of the Himālayās.

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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’.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bṛhadgṛha (बृहद्गृह).—Name of a country.

Derivable forms: bṛhadgṛhaḥ (बृहद्गृहः).

Bṛhadgṛha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bṛhat and gṛha (गृह).

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

Bṛhadgṛha (बृहद्गृह):—[=bṛhad-gṛha] [from bṛhad > bṛṃh] m. [plural] ‘large-housed’, Name of a people (dwelling in a country lying behind the Vindhya mountains near Malwa, and perhaps comprising Bandelkhand), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Brihadgriha 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Brihad, Griha, Brihat.

Full-text: Brihadguha.

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