Kuvalayavati, Kuvalayavatī: 5 definitions
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Kuvalayavati 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)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraKuvalayavatī (कुवलयवती) is the wife of king Candrāditya from Lāṭa, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 74. Accordingly, “... in the meanwhile he saw a maiden, who had come there to bathe, by name Haṃsāvalī, the beautiful daughter of Candrāditya, King of Lāṭa, by Kuvalayavatī; her mortal nature, which was concealed by all her other members moulded like those of gods, was revealed by the winking of her rolling eye”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Kuvalayavatī, 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.
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: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumKuvalayavatī (कुवलयवती) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—nāṭikā by Kṛṣṇa Kaviśekhara. Io. 1183.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryKuvalayavatī (कुवलयवती):—[=kuvalaya-vatī] [from kuvalaya] f. ‘possessing water-lilies’, Name of a princess, [Kathāsaritsāgara lxx, 215.]
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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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Kuvalaya, Vati.
Full-text: Krishna kavishekhara, Candraditya, Hamsavali.
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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Chapter LXXIV < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]
Harsha-charita (by Bāṇabhaṭṭa)