Candradatta: 5 definitions
Introduction:
Candradatta means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Alternative spellings of this word include Candradatta.
In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraCandradatta (चन्द्रदत्त) is the name of a king that once guarded the bamboo forest near lake Mānasa, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 46. Accordingly, “... when the companions of Sūryaprabha, Prabhāsa and the others, heard this speech of Sumeru’s they went to the bamboo grove, and after defeating the King Candradatta, who guarded it, they brought the bamboos and threw them into the lake [Mānasa]”.
The story of Candradatta was narrated by the Vidyādhara king Vajraprabha to prince Naravāhanadatta in order to relate how “Sūryaprabha, being a man, obtain of old time the sovereignty over the Vidyādharas”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Candradatta, 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’.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Tibetan Buddhist Teachers, Deities and other Spiritual beingsCandradatta (चन्द्रदत्त) is another name for Somadatta—one of the “Seven Dharma kings” (Tibetan: chos rgyal bdun) as well as the “Thirty-two kings of Shambhala”, according to the Tibetan oral recounting and written texts such as the Kalachakra Tantra (kālacakratantra), dealing with the Buddhist conception of the end of the world and time.—The Tibetan mythic land (the kingdom of Shambhala) is a parallel world invisible and inaccessible to common people which is closely related to the teaching about the Wheel of Time (dus 'khor). The seven Dharmarajas [e.g., candradatta] and twenty-five Kulikas are the traditional rulers of Shambhala, passing on the reign from father to son.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryCandradatta (चन्द्रदत्त):—[=candra-datta] [from candra > cand] m. ‘moon-given’, Name of an author.
[Sanskrit to German]
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: Datta, Chandra, Candra.
Starts with: Candradatta maithila, Candradatta sadhaka.
Full-text: Bhagavadbhaktimahatmya, Krishnavirudavali, Candradatta sadhaka, Kashikagita, Jayaksharasamhita, Candradatta maithila, Kashigita, Jnanalakshmi, Seven Dharmarajas, Prabhakara, Somadatta, Thirty-two kings of shambhala.
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Gita-govinda of Jayadeva (comparative study) (by Manisha Misra)
9. Jayadeva: The poet of wide reputation < [Chapter 2 - The background and plot contents of Jayadeva’s Gitagovinda]
A French Savant on Dr. Bhagavan Das < [July-August 1933]
President Jawaharlal < [November-December, 1929]
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Chapter XLVI < [Book VIII - Sūryaprabha]
Shishupala-vadha (Study) (by Shila Chakraborty)
Date of the poet Māgha < [Introduction]