Dashapura, Dāśapura, Daśapura, Dasha-pura, Dashan-pura: 15 definitions
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The Sanskrit terms Dāśapura and Daśapura can be transliterated into English as Dasapura or Dashapura, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexDāśapura (दाशपुर).—Here were born as hunters the seven sons of Kauśika. But they remembered their previous births and refrained from cruel deeds.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 20. 12-4; 21. 9 and 28.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.
Kavya (poetry)
Source: Shodhganga: The Kavyamimamsa of RajasekharaDaśapura (दशपुर) is the name a locality mentioned in Rājaśekhara’s 10th-century Kāvyamīmāṃsā.—Mondasor in Malwa, it is generally known as Dasore from which the Dasora Brahmins derive their names.
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’.
Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)
Source: Wisdom Library: Brihat Samhita by VarahamihiraDaśapura (दशपुर) refers to a country belonging to “Dakṣiṇa or Dakṣiṇadeśa (southern division)” classified under the constellations of Uttaraphālguni, Hasta and Citrā, according to the system of Kūrmavibhāga, according to the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter 14), an encyclopedic Sanskrit work written by Varāhamihira mainly focusing on the science of ancient Indian astronomy astronomy (Jyotiṣa).—Accordingly, “The countries of the Earth beginning from the centre of Bhāratavarṣa and going round the east, south-east, south, etc., are divided into 9 divisions corresponding to the 27 lunar asterisms at the rate of 3 for each division and beginning from Kṛttikā. The constellations of Uttaraphālguni, Hasta and Citrā represent the southern division consisting of [i.e., Daśapura] [...]”.
Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.
India history and geography
Source: archive.org: Geography in Ancient Indian inscriptionsDaśapura (दशपुर).—Daśapura is identical with Mandsaur, the headquarters of the district of the same name in Madhya Pradesh. It is situated onthe Ajmer-Khandwa (M.G.) lineof the Western Railways. The present town of Mandsaur stands on the bank of the rivulet Shivna, a tributory of the sacred riser of Shipra. The city has been described in Mandsaur inscription of Kumāragupta and Bandhuvarman as embraced by two charming rivers (probably Shivna and Sumli) and decorated with the rows of the storeyed mansions like those of the aerial chariots and with paintings. The houses were high, resembling the peaks of white clouds lit up with the forked lightning or the lofty peaks of the mount Kailāsa.
The Mandsaur inscription further tells the story of a temple of the Sun God constructed by the guild of the silk-weavers at the city called Daśapura. In course of time, part of the temple fell into disrepair. It was once again reconstructed by the same philanthropic guild. The city was decorated with the best of the buildings asthe cloudless sky is decorated with the moon. Kalidāsa also has made a passing reference to the beauties of Daśapura in Meghadūta.
About the origin of the name of the city, a story of a King Udayana and ten princes is narrated in the Jain work Pariśiṣṭaparvan. The king managed to erect some fortification, which was called by the name of Daśapura by the traders who had accommodated themselves, attracted by the royal encampment. The Mahābhārata speaks of Daśapura as a capital city of king Rantideva, a descendant of the solar race.
Nasik inscriptions indicate that by the second century A.D., Daśapura had earned the reputation of not only a flourishing and poIitically imporiant town but also a religious centre. The inscription of Govindagupta mentions that Dattabhaṭa got constructed here a stūpa and a vihāra.
Source: archive.org: Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptionsDaśapura (दशपुर) is a place name ending in pura mentioned in the Gupta inscriptions. The Gupta empire (r. 3rd-century CE), founded by Śrī Gupta, covered much of ancient India and embraced the Dharmic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.—“[Gupta] inscription L.4 refers to the migration of a guild of silk-weavers from Lāṭa-viṣaya (Central and Southern Gujarat) to the city of Daśapura. The guild came to this city attracted by the virtues of its kings.
Daśapura has been identified with Mandasor in Western Malwa formerly in the Gwalior State. The ancient Daśapura stood on the north or left bank of the Siwana, a tributary ofthe river Śiprā. We also find it mentioned in the Mandasor Fragmentary Inscription of the time of Ādityavardhana (A.D. 490-500). Under the Imperial Guptas the use of the Mālava or the Kṛta era seems to have been confined to Daśapura . Thus Daśapura may have been the main city of the Western Malavas. We also get a reference to Daśapura in the Bṛhatsaṃhitā and the Meghadūta of Kālidāsa.
There are two explanations of the name Daśapura or Dasor. The local explanation is that the place was originally a city of the Puranic king Daśaratha. But, on this view, the name of the city should have been Daśapurapura or Dasarathore. Fleet points out that even now, the township includes some twelve to fifteen outlying hamlets or divisions (Khilcipur, Jankūpurā, Rāmpuriyā, Candrapurā, Bālagañja, etc.) and that “when it was originally constituted, it included exactly ten (daśa) such hamlets (pura)”. This view of Fleet is more appealing.
Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Early Gupta KingsDaśapura (दशपुर) is identical with Mandasor.—Daśapura has been mentioned not only by Varāhamihira in the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (chapter XIV, verse 11-16), but also by Kālidāsa in the Mēghadūta (I. 47). As to inscriptions, it is found as early as in those of the Nāsik caves. It is mentioned in one of the records of Uṣavadāta (=Ṛṣabhadatta), son-in-law of the Mahākṣatrapa Nahapāna, along with the three big cities, Śōrpāraga, Gōvardhana and Bharukaccha, where he executed works of public utility. Possibly it was the capital of Nahapāna also and was known as Minnagar.
Daśapura was encircled by two rivers. At present, however, one river only is known in the close neighbourhood of Mandasōr, namely, the Śiwanā. Probably, the other river has either dried up or has been filled up with the ancient remains of the town. The other details about it mentioned in the inscription is the piece of information that the temple of the Sun built by the Guild was situated in the western pura or Ward of the town. The word here used is pura, which gives rise to the inference that Daśapura was so called because it consisted of daśa puras or ten wards
Source: Jainworld: Jain History (h)Daśapura (दशपुर) is identified with the modern city Mandsor. After Siṃhagiri had taught him the eleven Aṅgas, Vajra went from Daśapura to Bhadragupta at Avanti (Ujjayinī) to learn the twelfth viz. the Dṛṣṭivādāṅga. Daśapura is the birth place of the Jaina saint Āryarakṣita who learned from Vajra nine Pūrvas, and a fragment of the tenth, and taught them to his pupil Durbalikāpuṣpamitra. The seventh schism in Jainism occurred at this place. Jinaprabhasūri mentions Supārśva at Daśapura.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryDaśapura (दशपुर).—Name of an ancient city, capital of king Rantideva; पात्रीकुर्वन्दशपुरवधूनेत्रकौतू- हलानाम् (pātrīkurvandaśapuravadhūnetrakautū- halānām) Meghadūta 49.
Derivable forms: daśapuram (दशपुरम्).
Daśapura is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms daśan and pura (पुर).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryDaśapura (दशपुर).—n.
(-raṃ) A fragrant grass, (Cyperus rotundus:) see dāśapura. 2. A district, part of Malwa or Bundelk'hand. 3. A town or city. E. daśa for dāśa a fisherman, and pura or pūra to nourish, affix daśa; also daśa ten, and pura a city: district of ten cities.
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Daśapūra (दशपूर).—n.
(-raṃ) A fragrant grass: see the preceding; also dāśapūra.
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Dāśapura (दाशपुर).—n.
(-raṃ) A fragrant grass, (Cyperus rotundus:) see daśapura; also dāśapūra, n.
(-raṃ).
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Dāsapūra (दासपूर).—n.
(-raṃ) A fragrant grass, (Cyperus rotundus.) E. dāsa a fisherman, and pūra what nourishes, srom pṛ to nourish, affix ka also dāśapūra .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryDaśapura (दशपुर).—n. the name of a country. Deva-pura, n. the residence of Indra. Nāga-pura, n. a name of Hāstinapura. Pañca(n) -pura, n., parihāsa-pura, n., and phala -pura, n., names of towns. Mahā -purī, f. a great town.
Daśapura is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms daśan and pura (पुर).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryDaśapura (दशपुर).—[neuter] [Name] of [several] towns.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Daśapura (दशपुर):—[=daśa-pura] [from daśa] n. a kind of Cyperus rotundus (also -pūra [Scholiast or Commentator]), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
2) [v.s. ...] ‘Decapolis’, the modern Mandasor (in Malwa), [Meghadūta 47; Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā xiv, 13; Hemacandra’s Pariśiṣṭaparvan xii f.]
3) Daśapūra (दशपूर):—[=daśa-pūra] [from daśa] see. -pura.
4) Dāśapura (दाशपुर):—[=dāśa-pura] [from dāśa] mf(ī)n. coming from Daśa-pura
5) [v.s. ...] n. (also pūra) a kind of fragrant grass (cf. daśa-), [Bhāvaprakāśa]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Daśapura (दशपुर):—[daśa-pura] (raṃ) 1. n. A fragrant grass; a district; a town or city.
2) Daśapūra (दशपूर):—[daśa-pūra] (raṃ) 1. n. Idem.
3) Dāśapura (दाशपुर):—[dāśa-pura] (raṃ) 1. n. Fragrant grass.
4) Dāsapūra (दासपूर):—[dāsa-pūra] (raṃ) 1. m. A fragrant grass.
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See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Dasa, Pura, Tacan, Taca.
Starts with: Dashapuramdara.
Full-text: Caudrayana, Mandasor, Dashapuri, Dasor, Bandhuvarman, Kailasa, Dinanatha.
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