The Sanskrit term Īśvaravarman can be transliterated into English as Isvaravarman or Ishvaravarman, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Īśvaravarman (ईश्वरवर्मन्) is the son of Ratnavarman, a merchant (vaṇij) from Citrakūṭa, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 57. Accordingly, “... in it [Citrakūṭa] there lived a merchant named Ratnavarman, a prince among the wealthy. He had one son born to him by propitiating Śiva, and he gave that son the name of Īśvaravarman”.

The story of Īśvaravarman was narrated by Marubhūti to Naravāhanadatta in order to demonstrate that “courtesans have no goodness of character”, in other words, that “there never dwells in the minds of courtesans even an atom of truth, unalloyed with treachery, so a man who desires prosperity should not take pleasure in them, as their society is only to be gained by the wealthy, any more than in uninhabited woods to be crossed only with a caravan”.

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

India history and geography

Source: Epigraphia Indica Vol. 1: The Praśasti of Lakkhā Maṇḍal

Īśvaravarman (ईश्वरवर्मन्) is the name of a king belonging to the line of Yadu (the yādavas), according to the Praśasti (eulogy or panegyric) of the temple of Lakkhā Maṇḍal at Maḍhā in the Jaunsār Bāwar district on the Upper Jamnā. Accordingly, the yādava kings of the lunar race (candravaṃśa) had ruled over the Siṅghapura country “since the beginning of the Yuga”.

The father of Īśvaravarman was named Pradīptavarman, while his son was named Vṛddhivarman whose own son was named Siṅghavarman. Accordingly, “His son, called the illustrious Īśvaravarman, became king through his great liberality, he who ruled, like Bhava, over a multitude of objects of existence (bhava). His son was he who was denominated the illustrious Vṛddhivarman, a king whose good fortune was much increased, who, like the moon, removed torments and gladdened the eyes (of men)”.

The Praśasti (600-800 AD) was composed by Bhaṭṭa Vasudeva and incised in the stone by the mason Īśvaraṇāga. It records the dedication of a temple of Śiva by a princess, Īśvarā, who belonged to the royal race of Siṅghapura, for the spiritual welfare of her deceased husband. The latter, called Śrī-Candragupta, was the son of a king of Jālandhara. The greater part of the inscription is taken up by an account of the ancestors.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Īśvaravarman (ईश्वरवर्मन्) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—See Suvarṇakāreśvaravarman.

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

Īśvaravarman (ईश्वरवर्मन्):—[=īśvara-varman] [from īśvara > īś] m. Name of a man, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

[Sanskrit to German]

Ishvaravarman 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: Ishvara, Varman.

Full-text: Pradiptavarman, Arthadatta, Makarakati, Yamajihva, Ratnavarman, Dattavarman, Vriddhivarman, Sundari.

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