The Sanskrit term Kanakakṣetra can be transliterated into English as Kanakaksetra or Kanakakshetra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Kanakakṣetra (कनकक्षेत्र) is the name of a jewel-mine, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 36. Accordingly, as Yavanasena said to Rājadattā, “... then I wandered about as a beggar, and, with some other men like myself, I went to a mine of jewels called Kanakakṣetra. There I engaged to pay the king his share, and after digging up the earth in a trench for a whole year I did not find a single jewel”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Kanakakṣetra, 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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Partial matches: Kshetra, Kanaka.

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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter XXXVI < [Book VII - Ratnaprabhā]

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