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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Kamalagarbha (कमलगर्भ) is the name of a Brāhman from Pratiṣṭhāna, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 73. Accordingly, as Jyotirlekhā, and Dhūmalekhā said to Śrīdarśana: “... long ago there dwelt in Pratiṣṭhāna a Brāhman, of the name of Kamalagarbha, and he had two wives: the name of the one was Pathyā, and the name of the other Abalā”.

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

1) Kamalagarbha (कमलगर्भ):—[=kamala-garbha] [from kamala > kam] mfn. ‘offspring of the lotus’, Name of Brahmā, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

2) [v.s. ...] the lotus-cup.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kamalagarbha 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

Kamalagarbha (ಕಮಲಗರ್ಭ):—[noun] Brahma, who was born in a lotus flower.

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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)

Partial matches: Garbha, Kamala.

Starts with: Kamalagarbhabha.

Full-text: Kamalasambhava, Kamalodaya, Kamalaja, Kamalabhava, Abala, Pathya, Diptashikha, Garbha, Pradiptaksha.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing Kamalagarbha, Kamala-garbha; (plurals include: Kamalagarbhas, garbhas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter LXXIII < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]

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