The Sanskrit term Kṣurapraśara can be transliterated into English as Ksuraprasara or Kshuraprashara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of Sriharsa

Kṣurapraśara (क्षुरप्रशर) refers to an “arrow with razor-like blade at its tip”, and is mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 11.123. See also Apte under kṣurapra. Rucipati in his commentary on Anargharāghava 4.47 refers to another form of the word, viz., khurapra.. See also Cāṇḍūpāṇḍita’s remarks on 12.66.

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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’.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Kṣuraprasara (क्षुरप्रसर):—[kṣura-prasara] (raḥ) 1. m. Idem.

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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: Kshura, Prasara.

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