The Sanskrit term Kanakakalaśa can be transliterated into English as Kanakakalasa or Kanakakalasha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Kanakakalaśa (कनककलश) is the brother of Indukalaśa from the northern region (Uttarāpatha), according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 72. Accordingly, as Indukalaśa said to king Vinītamati: “... now I have come to you as a suppliant, because I have been conquered and turned out of my father’s kingdom by my brother, whose name is Kanakakalaśa. So give me, hero, your excellent sword and horse, in order that by their virtue I may conquer the pretender and obtain my kingdom”.

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

Kanakakalaśa (कनककलश):—[=kanaka-kalaśa] [from kanaka > kan] m. Name of a man, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

[Sanskrit to German]

Kanakakalasha 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Kalasha, Kanaka.

Full-text: Seka.

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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter LXXII < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]

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