The Sanskrit term Jyeṣṭhasnāna can be transliterated into English as Jyesthasnana or Jyeshthasnana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Kavya (poetry)

Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of Sriharsa

Jyeṣṭhasnāna (ज्येष्ठस्नान) is the name of a bathing ceremony part of Mahājyaiṣṭhī: a festival mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 15.89.—[...] The ceremony of bath takes place in the morning to the accompaniment of music and hymns, after which the holy images are led out in procession towards the south. According to Skandapurāṇa, a mantra called samudrajyeṣṭhā is used in connection with the bathing ceremony, while Brahmapurāṇa gives the text of a long hymn in prose beginning with “jaya jaya lokapāla bhaktarakṣaka”. The whole ceremony is commonly known as jyeṣṭhasnāna, and takes place in Puruṣottamakṣetra (Puri).—Great religious merit is said to accrue to those who witness the ceremony of bath or the southward procession, and it is the latter event which the poet has in his mind.

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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: Jyeshtha, Snana.

Full-text: Mahajyaishthi.

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