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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (kavya)

Kapolabhitti (कपोलभित्ति) refers to the “cheeks”, according to Bāṇa’s Kādambarī (p. 225-226).—Accordingly, while describing the shire of the Goddess Caṇḍikā, “[Then follows the image of the Goddess Caṇḍikā, which matches the conception of Kālarātri in the passage from the Mahābhārata:] [...] she bore the coquettish apparel of a woman going out to meet Mahākāla at night, with a vine-like body furnished with a raiment reddened with saffron-dye, with a face with red eyes, whose brows were furrowed into a frown, whose lip was crimsoned with betel that was blood, whose cheeks (kapolabhitti—kapolabhittinā) were reddened by the light shed from ear-ornaments of pomegranate flowers, with a forehead on which there was a tilaka dot of vermillion made by a Śabara beauty, covered by a magnificent gold turban. She was worshipped by goats... mice... antelope and black serpents... She was praised on all sides by flocks of old crows; [...]”.

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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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kapolabhitti (कपोलभित्ति).—f. the temples and cheeks; or excellent (i. e. broad) cheeks; cf. गण्डभित्ति (gaṇḍabhitti).

Derivable forms: kapolabhittiḥ (कपोलभित्तिः).

Kapolabhitti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kapola and bhitti (भित्ति).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kapolabhitti (कपोलभित्ति).—m.

(-ttiḥ) The temples and cheek, the upper part of the face. E. kapola, and bhitti a wall.

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

Kapolabhitti (कपोलभित्ति):—[=kapola-bhitti] [from kapola] f. idem, [Bhartṛhari; Śiśupāla-vadha]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kapolabhitti (कपोलभित्ति):—[kapola-bhitti] (ttiḥ) 2. m. Idem.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kapolabhitti 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: Bhitti, Kapola.

Full-text: Bhitti.

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