The Sanskrit term Indukeśarin can be transliterated into English as Indukesarin or Indukesharin, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Indukeśarin (इन्दुकेशरिन्) is the name of an ancient king from Karṇāṭa, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 72. Accordingly, as king Vinītamati said to Somaśūra: “... and there he saw the daughter of the King Indukeśarin, Induyaśas by name. That maiden, like a bewildering creeper of love, entered the heart of the young merchant as soon as he saw her”.

The story of Indukeśarin was narrated by Vinītamati in order to teach Somaśūra the doctrine of the perfection of perseverance (dhyānapāramita) as known in the Buddhist doctrine with the object of dissuading Somaśūra from ignorance (ajñāna).

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Indukeśarin, 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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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Indukesarin (इन्दुकेसरिन्):—[=indu-kesarin] [from indu] m. Name of a king, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

[Sanskrit to German]

Indukesharin 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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Partial matches: Kesarin, Indu, Imtu.

Full-text: Induyashas, Vijayamalin, Malayamalin.

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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter LXXII < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]

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