The Sanskrit term Dharaṇīdharaśaila can be transliterated into English as Dharanidharasaila or Dharanidharashaila, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Dharaṇīdharaśaila (धरणीधरशैल) or simply Dharaṇīdhara is the name of a mountain whose lord is named Vikrośana: a Vidyādhara king who fought on Śrutaśarman’s side but was slain by Prabhāsa, who participated in the war against Sūryaprabha, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 48. Accordingly: “... when they heard that [speech of Śrutaśarman], eight warriors in anger surrounded Prabhāsa.... And the second warrior was a chief of the Vidyādharas named Vikrośana, the king of the rock Dharaṇīdharaśaila”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Dharaṇīdharaśaila, 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.

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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’.

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Partial matches: Shaila, Dharanidhara.

Full-text: Dharanidhara.

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