Dhanyakataka, Dhānyakaṭaka: 4 definitions
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India history and geography
Source: Google Books: Shifting Stones, Shaping the PastDhānyakaṭaka (धान्यकटक).—Amarāvatī is a relatively recent name for this site and its environs. The ancient name, Dhānyakaṭaka and its variant Dharanikoṭa, appears in numerous inscriptions. Perhaps the earliest reference to Dhānyakaṭaka appears on a pillar with several narratives, now in the Amarāvatī Site Museum. Along with several episodes from the life of the Buddha, the pillar in question, dated to the first century BCE, includes a depiction of a village scene and a river, which is labeled “Dhamnakada.”
Source: What is India: South Indian Inscriptions vol1: Tamil and Sanskrit inscriptionsDhanyakataka (=Dhanyakata) is an old name for Amaravati.—Dhanyaghata or Dhanyagataka is evidently identical with Dhanyakata or Dhanyakataka, “corn-town” the well-known old name of Amaravati. The use of gha instead of ka can perhaps be explained by the Tamil habit of softening a single consonant between two words.’
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.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryDhānyakaṭaka (धान्यकटक).—name of a caitya, in the south: śrī- [Page284-b+ 71] dhānyakaṭake caitye jinadhātudhare bhuvi (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 88.10 (verse); in prec. line dakṣiṇāpathasaṃjñike; °ke mahācaitye JRAS Oct. 1875 (N.S. VIII Pañcatantra (Bombay) 1), p. 27, line 1.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryDhānyakaṭaka (धान्यकटक):—[=dhānya-kaṭaka] [from dhānya > dhā] Name of a country, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
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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Partial matches: Kataka, Dhanya.
Full-text: Amaravati, Dhanyakata, Andhrapatha, Dhanyaghata, Dhanyaghataka, Shivaskandavarman, Viripara.
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Blue Annals (deb-ther sngon-po) (by George N. Roerich)
Chapter 2 - Date of the Kālacakra-tantra < [Book 10 - The Kālacakra]
Chapter 25 - Rgwa lo < [Book 10 - The Kālacakra]
Chapter 28 - Paṇḍita Vanaratna < [Book 10 - The Kālacakra]
Amaravati Art in the Context of Andhra Archaeology (by Sreyashi Ray chowdhuri)
Importance of Dhānyakaṭaka as a capital < [Chapter 4 - Survival of Amarāvatī in the Context of Andhra Art]
Dhānyakaṭaka and other names of Amarāvatī < [Chapter 4 - Survival of Amarāvatī in the Context of Andhra Art]
History of Amarāvatī-Dhānyakaṭaka (conclusion) < [Chapter 4 - Survival of Amarāvatī in the Context of Andhra Art]
The history of Andhra country (1000 AD - 1500 AD) (by Yashoda Devi)
Part 15 - End of Kondapadumatis < [Chapter IV - The Kondapadumatis (A.D. 1100-1282)]
Part 15 - Betaraja and Ganapamba (A.D. 1241-1251) < [Chapter V - The Kotas (A.D. 1100-1270)]
Part 18 - The Kotas of Tadikonda < [Chapter V - The Kotas (A.D. 1100-1270)]
Buddhist Vestiges of Andhradesa < [July – September, 1994]
Andhra Sculpture < [January 1949]
Buddhist China and South India < [October – December, 1988]
Pallava period (Social and Cultural History) (by S. Krishnamurthy)
Religious Beliefs during the Pallava period (Introduction) < [Chapter 3 - Socio-Religious Life]
Origin of the Pallava Dynasty < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
The Pallavas of the Prakrit and Sanskrit charters < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
Buddhist records of the Western world (Xuanzang) (by Samuel Beal)
Chapter 13 - Country of ’An-ta-lo (Andhra) < [Book X - Seventeen Countries]