Dashakumaracarita, Daśakumāracarita, Dashan-kumaracarita: 6 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Daśakumāracarita can be transliterated into English as Dasakumaracarita or Dashakumaracarita, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Dashakumaracharita.

India history and geography

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Source: academic.ru: South Asian Arts

The Daśakumāracarita (“Tales of Ten Princes”), by Daṇḍin (6th/7th century), in which, within the framework of a boxing story, the picaresque adventures of 10 disinherited princes are described in prose.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Daśakumāracarita (दशकुमारचरित).—a prose work by Dandin.

Derivable forms: daśakumāracaritam (दशकुमारचरितम्).

Daśakumāracarita is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms daśan and kumāracarita (कुमारचरित).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Daśakumāracarita (दशकुमारचरित) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—a romance by Daṇḍin. [Mackenzie Collection] 112. Io. 107. 586. L. 289. K. 58. Kh. 84. B. 2, 128 (and—[commentary]). Report. Ix. Ben. 37. Bik. 260. Kāṭm. 6 (and—[commentary]). Pheh. 6. Rādh. 21. Burnell. 165^a. Gu. 4. Oppert. 646. 5991. Ii, 119. 1451. 3164. 8233. 9037. 9821. Peters. 3, 394. Bühler 541. The work was completed by Padmanābha in his Daśakumāracaritottarapīṭhikā. Ben. 37. Pheh. 6. Np. Vi, 30.
—[commentary] Bl. 4. Oppert. Ii, 8037. Peters. 1, 115. 3, 394.
—[commentary] Padacandrikā by Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī. L. 3041. K. 60. Bühler 555.
—[commentary] by Bhānucandra. Bühler 555.
—[commentary] Daśakumārabhūṣaṇa by Śivarāma. L. 3042. Bühler 555.

2) Daśakumāracarita (दशकुमारचरित):—read L. 1289.
—[commentary] by Bhānucandra. delete this.

3) Daśakumāracarita (दशकुमारचरित):—by Daṇḍin. Bl. 58. 269. Gov. Or. Libr. Madras 35. Peters. 4, 27. Rgb. 439. Stein 80. Uttarapīṭhikā by Padmanābha. Stein 80.
—In a recension by Gopīnātha. Fl. 451 (ucchvāsa 8-11).
—[commentary] Rgb. 360.
—[commentary] Padacandrikā by Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī. Bl. 59. Gov. Or. Libr. Madras 35. Oudh. Xx, 68.
—[commentary] by Tārānātha. Stein 81.
—[commentary] Daśakumārabhūṣaṇa by Śivarāma. Bl. 60.

4) Daśakumāracarita (दशकुमारचरित):—by Daṇḍin. Ulwar 922.
daśakumāraśeṣa by Cakrapāṇi Dīkṣita. Ulwar 923. Extr. 189.

5) Daśakumāracarita (दशकुमारचरित):—by Daṇḍin. As p. 81 (the first Ucchvāsa missing). Io. 107 (Pūrvapīṭhikā). 586. 1144. 2369. 2694. 2883 (part 1 and a small portion of 2) 2923. C. Bhūṣaṇa by Śivarāma, son of Kṛṣṇarāma. Io. 1121. 2923.

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

Daśakumāracarita (दशकुमारचरित):—[=daśa-kumāra-carita] [from daśa] n. ‘adventures of the 10 princes’, Name of [work] by Daṇḍin.

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