Madanasena, Madanasenā: 4 definitions
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Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara1) Madanasenā (मदनसेना) is the daughter of king Vīrabhaṭa: king of Tāmraliptī, who was captivated by love at the sight of Sūryaprabha, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 44. Accordingly, as Vajraprabha said to Naravāhanadatta: “... and wherever any princesses beheld him [Sūryaprabha] she was immediately bewildered by love and chose him for her husband. The first was the virgin daughter of the king of Tāmraliptī, who was called Vīrabhaṭa; her name was Madanasenā, and she was the first beauty of the world”.
2) Madanasenā (मदनसेना)is the daughter of Arthadatta from Anaṅgapura, as mentioned in the tenth story of the Vetālapañcaviṃśati in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 84. Accordingly, “... that merchant-prince [Arthadatta] had for elder child a son named Dhanadatta, and his younger child was a pearl of maidens, named Madanasenā. One day, as she was playing with her companions in her own garden, a young merchant, named Dharmadatta, a friend of her brother’s, saw her”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Madanasenā, 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: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMadanasenā (मदनसेना):—[=madana-senā] [from madana > mad] f. Name of various women, [Siṃhāsana-dvātriṃśikā or vikramāditya-caritra, jaina recension]
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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: Madana, Sena, Cena.
Full-text: Virabhata, Anangapura, Dharmadatta, Dhanadatta.
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Dasarupaka (critical study) (by Anuru Ranjan Mishra)
Part 2a - Summary of the Ubhayābhisārikā < [Chapter 2 - Bhāṇa (critical study)]
Part 7 - The characters of the Ubhayābhisārikā < [Chapter 2 - Bhāṇa (critical study)]
Introduction to the Bhāṇa type of Drama < [Chapter 2 - Bhāṇa (critical study)]
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Chapter LXXXIV < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]
Vetāla 10: Madanasenā and her Rash Promise < [Appendix 6.1 - The Twenty-five Tales of a Vetāla]
Chapter XLIV < [Book VIII - Sūryaprabha]
Satirical works of Kshemendra (study) (by Arpana Devi)
7.4. Summary of the Pādatāḍitaka < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]