Devagiri, Deva-giri, Devagirī: 12 definitions

Introduction
In Hinduism
1. Purana
India history
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Introduction:

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In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Devagiri (देवगिरि).—Mt. a hill in Bhāratavarṣa.^*

* Bhāgavata-purāṇa V. 19. 16.

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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.

India history and geography

Source: archive.org: Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1963

Devagiri refers to the Galapiṭagala ruins of an ancient locality that existed since the ancient kingdom of Anurādhapura, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).—The ruins at Galapiṭagala, near the 9th mile on the Maradankaḍavala-Habarana road, are called Devagiri in a 1st century inscription there.

Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Śilāhāras

Devagiri is the name of a village mentioned in the “Khidrāpur stone inscripiton of the Yādava king Siṅghaṇa”. Devagiri is modern Daulatābād in the Marāṭhwāḍā Division of Mahārāṣṭra

This stone inscription (mentioning Devagiri) is placed outside the southern door of the Gūḍhamaṇḍapa of the temple of Koppeśvara at Khidrāpur in the Shirol-tālukā of the Kolhāpur District. It record the grant, made in Devagiri by the Yādava king Siṅghaṇa, of the village Kūḍaladāmavāḍa near the confluence of the rivers Kūḍalakriṣṇaveṇi and Bheṇasī in the Miriñji-deśa. It is dated Monday, the solar eclipse in the month of Caitra in the Śaka year 1136, the cyclic year being Śrīmukha.

Source: OpenEdition books: Vividhatīrthakalpaḥ (History)

Devagiri (देवगिरि) (= Daulatābāda, today Daulatabad) is the name of an ancient locality, associated with Kaṇṇāṇaya, as is mentioned in the Vividhatīrthakalpa by Jinaprabhasūri (13th century A.D.): an ancient text devoted to various Jaina holy places (tīrthas).—[(22) 45.25], § d; 462 [(22) 46.19], § d: Atlas a D 6; today Daulatabad.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Devagiri (देवगिरि).—

1) Name of a mountain; cf. Meghadūta 44.

2) Name of a town (Daulatabad).

Derivable forms: devagiriḥ (देवगिरिः).

Devagiri is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms deva and giri (गिरि).

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Devagirī (देवगिरी).—f. Name of a Rāgiṇī.

Devagirī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms deva and girī (गिरी).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Devagirī (देवगिरी).—f. (-rī) One of the female personifications of the modes of music.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Devagiri (देवगिरि) or Dhūmragiri or Rāmagiri.—m. names of mountains. Vahirgiri, i. e.

Devagiri is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms deva and giri (गिरि).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Devagiri (देवगिरि).—[masculine] [Name] of a mountain.

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

1) Devagiri (देवगिरि):—[=deva-giri] [from deva] m. ‘d° hill’, Name of a mountain, [Suśruta; Purāṇa] (cf. -pūrva)

2) [v.s. ...] Name of Daulat-ābād (situated between mountains), [Catalogue(s)]

3) Devagirī (देवगिरी):—[=deva-girī] [from deva] f. (in music) Name of a Rāgiṇī (cf. -kirī).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Devagirī (देवगिरी):—[deva-girī] (rī) 3. f. One of the female personifications of music.

[Sanskrit to German]

Devagiri in German

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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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