India history and geography

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary

Draṅga.—(EI 32), used to indicate dramma; name of a coin. (EI 10), cf. Navagrāma-draṅga, ‘the draṅga of Nava- grāma’; possibly ‘a station for the collection of revenue’. (EI 8-3), a town or watch-station; possibly also a station for the collection of revenue; also called udraṅga which may thus indicate both revenue and the station for its collection. Note: draṅga is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

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Draṅga.—variant of dramma (q. v.). Note: draṅga is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

Source: Singhi Jain Series: Ratnaprabha-suri’s Kuvalayamala-katha (history)

1) Draṅga (द्रङ्ग) refers to “village of Gujaras”, according to Uddyotanasūri in his 8th-century Kuvalayamālā (a Prakrit Campū, similar to Kāvya poetry).

2) Dranga  refers to “defense posts”.—The Kuvalayamala (779 A.D.) is full of cultural material which gains in value because of the firm date of its composition.—In line 24 there is a reference to Jyeṣṭha mahā-mahattara who was placed in charge of all the Drangas, or defense posts, in that area. The word is very often used in the Rājataraṅgiṇī of Kalhaṇa to denote an institution which was common in the North-west. Its mention by Uddyotanasūri is significant as showing its extension to Rajasthan area.

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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

Draṅga (द्रङ्ग) or Draṅgā (द्रङ्गा).—A city, town; Rāj. T.

Derivable forms: draṅgaḥ (द्रङ्गः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Draṅga (द्रङ्ग).—[, v.l. for avadraṅga, q.v.]

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

Draṅga (द्रङ्ग).—m.

(-ṅgaḥ) A city, a town. E. dran to go, affix gan .

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

Draṅga (द्रङ्ग).—m. A town, [Śatruṃjayamāhātmya, (ed. A. Weber.)] 14, 181.

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

Draṅga (द्रङ्ग).—[masculine] ā [feminine] town, city.

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

1) Draṅga (द्रङ्ग):—m. a town, city, [Śatruṃjaya-māhātmya; Rājataraṅgiṇī]

2) Draṅgā (द्रङ्गा):—[from draṅga] f. idem, [Rājataraṅgiṇī] (cf. udr [for ud-dr], ku-dr; traṅga).

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

Draṅga (द्रङ्ग):—(ṅgaḥ) 1. m. A city, a town.

[Sanskrit to German]

Dranga 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Draṃga (ದ್ರಂಗ):—[noun] a town or city.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Drangapala, Drangavadha.

Ends with: Avadranga, Bhadranga, Haridranga, Kudranga, Mah-odranga, Margadranga, Rudranga, S-odranga, Sravadranga, Udranga.

Full-text: Sravadranga, Margadranga, Udranga, Avadranga, Drangesha, Kudranka, Kudranga, Drangika, Drangapala, Tranga.

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