Matrigupta kavi, Mātṛgupta kavi: 1 definition

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Mātṛgupta kavi (मातृगुप्त कवि) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—lived under Harsha Vikramāditya and became king of Kāśmīr. Rājataraṅgiṇī 3, 129. 239. Verses of his are given in Aucityavicāracarcā 22. [Subhāshitāvali by Vallabhadeva] The same, it may be supposed, is mentioned as a writer on Alaṃkāra by Vāsudeva on Karpūramañjarī. He wrote perhaps a
—[commentary] on Bharata's Nāṭyaśāstra. Compare Sundaramiśra’s Nāṭyapradīpa in Catal. Io. p. 347.

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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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