The Sanskrit term Kusumaśara can be transliterated into English as Kusumasara or Kusumashara, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Kusumasāra (कुसुमसार) or Kusumaśara is the name of a merchant (vaṇij) from Lampā, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 67. Accordingly as Candrasāra said to Naravāhanadatta: “... there is a city called Lampā, the crown of the earth; in it there was a rich merchant named Kusumaśara. I [Candrasāra], Prince of Vatsa, am the son of that merchant, who lives and moves in religion, and I was gained by the propitiation of Śiva”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Kusumaśara, 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’.

In Jainism

General definition (in Jainism)

Source: archive.org: Een Kritische Studie Van Svayambhūdeva’s Paümacariu

Kusumaśara (कुसुमशर) participated in the war between Rāma and Rāvaṇa, on the side of the latter, as mentioned in Svayambhūdeva’s Paumacariu (Padmacarita, Paumacariya or Rāmāyaṇapurāṇa) chapter 57ff. Svayambhū or Svayambhūdeva (8th or 9th century) was a Jain householder who probably lived in Karnataka. His work recounts the popular Rāma story as known from the older work Rāmāyaṇa (written by Vālmīki). Various chapters [mentioning Kusumaśara] are dedicated to the humongous battle whose armies (known as akṣauhiṇīs) consisted of millions of soldiers, horses and elephants, etc.

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, ‘self-reliance’) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kusumaśara (कुसुमशर).—

1) a flowery arrow.

2) Name of the god of love; अभिनवः कुसुमेषुव्यापारः (abhinavaḥ kusumeṣuvyāpāraḥ) Māl. 1 (where the word may also be read as kusumeṣu vyāpāraḥ); तस्मै नमो भगवते कुसुमायुधाय (tasmai namo bhagavate kusumāyudhāya) Bhartṛhari 1.1; तव प्रसादात् कुसुमायुधोऽपि (tava prasādāt kusumāyudho'pi) Ku.; Ṛtusaṃhāra 6.34; Ch. P.19.24; R.7.61; Śiśupālavadha 8.7, so कुसुमशरबाणभावेन (kusumaśarabāṇabhāvena) Gītagovinda 1.

Derivable forms: kusumaśaraḥ (कुसुमशरः).

Kusumaśara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kusuma and śara (शर). See also (synonyms): kusumāstra, kusumāyudha, kusumeṣu, kusumabāṇa.

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

Kusumaśara (कुसुमशर).—(having flowers instead of arrows), m. epithet of Kāma, [Kathāsaritsāgara, (ed. Brockhaus.)] 26, 277. Pañcaśara, i. e.

Kusumaśara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kusuma and śara (शर).

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

Kusumaśara (कुसुमशर).—having flowers for arrows ([abstract] tva [neuter]); [masculine] the god of love.

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

1) Kusumaśara (कुसुमशर):—[=kusuma-śara] [from kusuma] m. = -bāṇa, [Kathāsaritsāgara; Gīta-govinda]

2) Kusumasāra (कुसुमसार):—[=kusuma-sāra] [from kusuma] m. Name of a merchant, [Kathāsaritsāgara lxvii, 36.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Kusumashara 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kusumaśara (ಕುಸುಮಶರ):—

1) [noun] = ಕುಸುಮಬಾಣ [kusumabana].

2) [noun] (pros.) a meter with thirty three syllables.

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Kusumasāra (ಕುಸುಮಸಾರ):—[noun] = ಕುಸುಮರಸ - [kusumarasa -] 1 & 2.

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Kusumāsāra (ಕುಸುಮಾಸಾರ):—[noun] = ಕುಸುಮವರ್ಷ [kusumavarsha].

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Sara, Kusuma, Cara.

Starts with: Kusumasharasana, Kusumasharatva.

Full-text: Kusumasharatva, Kusumayudha, Kusumasharasana, Puraripu, Candrasara, Kusumabana, Kusumastra, Kusumeshu, Lampa, Lampanagara, Bahuvrihi, Bahivrihi, Kamadeva.

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