Devashakti, Devaśakti: 5 definitions
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Devashakti 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.
The Sanskrit term Devaśakti can be transliterated into English as Devasakti or Devashakti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraDevaśakti (देवशक्ति) is the name of an ancient king from Kuṇḍina (a city situated in Vidarbha), according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 55. Accordingly, as the painter Roladeva said to king Kanakavarṣa: “... in Vidarbha there is a prosperous town named Kuṇḍina, and in it there is a king of the name of Devaśakti. And he has a queen named Anantavatī, dearer to him than life, and by her there was born to him a daughter named Madanasundarī”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Devaśakti, 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: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryDevaśakti (देवशक्ति) or Anantaśakti or Amaraśakti or Ugraśakti.—
Devaśakti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms deva and śakti (शक्ति).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryDevaśakti (देवशक्ति):—[=deva-śakti] [from deva] m. ‘having divine strength’, Name of a king, [Pañcatantra]
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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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Shakti, Deva, Teva.
Full-text: Anantashakti, Ugrashakti, Amarashakti, Sangamasvamin, Kundinapura, Kundina.
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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
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