Kavyarakshasa, Kāvyarākṣasa: 4 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Kāvyarākṣasa can be transliterated into English as Kavyaraksasa or Kavyarakshasa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Kāvyarākṣasa (काव्यराक्षस) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—See Rākṣasakāvya.

2) Kāvyarākṣasa (काव्यराक्षस):—a poem in 20 stanzas. Kāṭm. 7 (and—[commentary]). Oudh. Xvi, 54. Burnell. 161^a. Peters. 2, 189 (and—[commentary]). Sb. 313 (and—[commentary]). This production has the honour of being attributed to three different authors: to Kālidāsa. K. 64. B. 2, 102 (and—[commentary]), to Ravideva. W. p. 169 (and—[commentary]), to Vararuci. L. 782 (and—[commentary]).
—[commentary] Subodhinī by Kavirāja. L. 2821.
—[commentary] by Kṛṣṇacandra. Oudh. Xiv, 28.
—[commentary] by Premadhara. L. 3151. B. 2, 102.
—[commentary] by Vidyākaramiśra. L. 2389.

Kāvyarākṣasa has the following synonyms: Rākṣasakāvya.

3) Kāvyarākṣasa (काव्यराक्षस):—Rgb. 399.
—attributed to Kālidāsa. Bl. 282 (and—[commentary]). Gov. Or. Libr. Madras 75.
—attributed to Ravideva. Stein 72 (with his own and an anonymous
—[commentary]).
—[commentary] by Bālakṛṣṇa Pāyaguṇḍa. Stein 72.

Kāvyarākṣasa has the following synonyms: Rākṣasakāvya.

4) Kāvyarākṣasa (काव्यराक्षस):—and C. by Ravideva. Peters. 6, 328. See Rākṣasakāvya.

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

Kāvyarākṣasa (काव्यराक्षस):—[=kāvya-rākṣasa] [from kāvya] n. Name of an artificial poem.

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Kavyarakshasa 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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