Codakarna, Coḍakarṇa: 4 definitions
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Codakarna means something in 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 Chodakarna.
In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraCoḍakarṇa (चोडकर्ण) is the name of a Brāhman from Ekalavyā, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 69. Accordingly, as the Muni Vijitāsu said to Puṣkarākṣa: “... and in conversation she [Rūpavatī] related that secret of her former birth to a Brāhman named Coḍakarṇa, who was always engaged in muttering prayers, in order to cure him of his exclusive devotion to muttering...”.
The story of Coḍakarṇa was narrated by Vijitāsu in order to demonstrate that “a creature receives the form of that which it was contemplating at the moment of death”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Coḍakarṇa, 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’.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryCoḍakarṇa (चोडकर्ण):—[=coḍa-karṇa] [from coḍa] m. ‘projecting-ear’, Name of a man, [Kathāsaritsāgara lxix, 164.]
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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.
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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
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