Kurangi, Kuraṅgī, Kuramgi: 4 definitions

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Kurangi means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

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Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Kuraṅgī (कुरङ्गी) is the daughter of Prasenajit, an ancient king from Supratiṣṭhita, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 112. Accordingly, as king Pālaka said: “... long ago King Prasenajit, in a city named Supratiṣṭhita, had a very beautiful daughter named Kuraṅgī. One day she went out in the garden, and an elephant, that had broken from its fastenings, charged her, and flung her up on his tusks, litter and all”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Kuraṅgī, 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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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

1) Kuraṅgī (कुरङ्गी):—[from kuraṅga] f. a female antelope, [Gīta-govinda]

2) [v.s. ...] Name of a daughter of Prasena-jit, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

[Sanskrit to German]

Kurangi 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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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kūraṃgi (ಕೂರಂಗಿ):—[noun] a female antelope.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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