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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Kumudāvatī (कुमुदावती) is the daughter of the Asura prince Durāroha, and was given to Sūryaprabha in marriage according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 45. Accordingly, “... on the next day Durāroha, Prince of the Asuras, invited and conducted them all to his own underworld, the fifth. There, by way of hospitality, he gave to Sūryaprabha his own daughter Kumadāvatī, as the others had done, in the prescribed manner. There Sūryaprabha spent the day in enjoyment with all these united. And at night he entered the apartment of Kumudāvatī. There he spent that night in the society of that lovely and loving woman, the beauty of the three worlds”.

The story of Kumadāvatī and Durāroha was narrated by the Vidyādhara king Vajraprabha to prince Naravāhanadatta in order to relate how “Sūryaprabha, being a man, obtain of old time the sovereignty over the Vidyādharas”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Kumadāvatī, 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: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kumudavatī (कुमुदवती).—f. (-tī) A place abounding in water lilies, &c. see kumudvatī.

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

Kumudavatī (कुमुदवती):—[=ku-muda-vatī] [from ku-muda > ku-mud] f. an assemblage of Kumudas, place abounding in them, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Kumudavatī (कुमुदवती):—[kumuda-vatī] (tī) 3. f. A place abounding in water-lilies.

[Sanskrit to German]

kumudavati 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: Kumuda, Vati.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing kumudavati, Kumudāvatī, Kumudavatī, Kumuda-vati, Kumuda-vatī; (plurals include: kumudavatis, Kumudāvatīs, Kumudavatīs, vatis, vatīs). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter XLV < [Book VIII - Sūryaprabha]

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