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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

1) Kuvalayāvalī (कुवलयावली) is the queen-wife of Ādityaprabha (king of Śrīkaṇṭha), who was caught practising magic rites for the purpose of obtaining prosperity for the king, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 20. Their story was told by Yaugandharāyaṇa to king Udayana in order to demonstrate that a sensible man will not injure one who treats him well, for whoever does, will find that it turns out unfortunately for himself.

2) Kuvalayāvalī (कुवलयावली) is the wife of the Gandharva king Padmaśekhara according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 117. Accordingly, as # said to Padmaśekhara : “...  When Padmāvatī had said this with firm resolution, her mother, Kuvalayāvalī, said to her father, the king: ‘King, let her perform this severe asceticism! Why trouble her further on false grounds? This is appointed for her by Destiny: there is a reason for it’”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Kuvalayāvalī, 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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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kuvalayāvalī (कुवलयावली):—[from kuvalaya] f. Name of a princess, [Kathāsaritsāgara xx, 49.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Kuvalayavali 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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Search found 1 books and stories containing Kuvalayavali, Kuvalayāvalī; (plurals include: Kuvalayavalis, Kuvalayāvalīs). 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)

Note on magical circles (maṇḍala) < [Notes]

Chapter XX < [Book III - Lāvānaka]

Chapter CXVII < [Book XVII - Padmāvatī]

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