Manivarman, Maṇivarman, Mani-varman: 4 definitions
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Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraMaṇivarman (मणिवर्मन्) is the name of a merchant (vaṇij) from Tāmraliptī, according to the twenty-first story of the Vetālapañcaviṃśati in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 95. Accordingly, “... and that merchant [Arthadatta] gave her [Anaṅgamañjarī] to the son of a distinguished merchant dwelling in Tāmraliptī, and named Maṇivarman. But as he was very fond of his daughter Anaṅgamañjarī, because she was his only child, he would not let her leave his house, but kept her there with her husband. But Anaṅgamañjarī’s husband Maṇivarman was as distasteful to her as a biting bitter medicine to a sick man. But that lovely one was dearer than life to her husband, as wealth hardly won and long hoarded is to a miser”.
The story of Maṇivarman is mentioned in the Vetālapañcaviṃśati (twenty-five tales of a vetāla) which is embedded in the twelfth book of the Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’). The main book is a famous Sanskrit epic detailing the exploits of prince Naravāhanadatta in his quest to become the emperor of the vidyādharas (celestial beings). The Kathā-sarit-sāgara is is explained to be an adaptation of Guṇāḍhya’s Bṛhatkathā which consisted of 100,000 verses and in turn forms part of an even 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 Dictionary1) Maṇivarman (मणिवर्मन्):—[=maṇi-varman] [from maṇi] m. Name of a merchant, [Kathāsaritsāgara]
2) [v.s. ...] n. a talisman consisting of jewels, [Divyāvadāna]
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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: Varman, Mani.
Full-text: Anangamanjari.
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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Chapter XCV < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]
Vetāla 21: Anaṅgamañjarī, her Husband Maṇivarman and the Brāhman Kamalākara < [Appendix 6.1 - The Twenty-five Tales of a Vetāla]