In Hinduism

General definition (in Hinduism)

Source: academia.edu: Tessitori Collection I (hinduism)

Dalapatirāya (दलपतिराय) refers to one of the authors of the Alaṃkāraratnākara (dealing with Poetics and Erotics), which is included in the collection of manuscripts at the ‘Vincenzo Joppi’ library, collected by Luigi Pio Tessitori during his visit to Rajasthan between 1914 and 1919.—The Alaṃkāraratnākara illustrates the later phase of the Rīti school, is a collaborative work on poetics by two inhabitants of Ahmedabad, Vaṃsīdhara and Dalapatirāya, who introduce themselves as such at the beginning. The former was a Śrīmālī Brahman and the latter a Mahājan. They composed their treatise in VS 1798 (= 1741 CE, vs. 20 above) under the patronage of Mahārāja Jagatsingh of Udaipur.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Dalapatirāya (दलपतिराय) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—wrote for a prince Mādhavasiṃha: Yāvanaparipāṭyanukrama. Bhr. 409. p. 41.

2) Dalapatirāya (दलपतिराय):—Pattrapraśasti. Ak 517.

context information

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)

Full-text: Yavanaparipayyanukrama, Madhavasimha, Lakshana, Lacchana, Alamkararatnakara, Bhashabhushana, Pattraprashasti, Vamshidhara.

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