The Sanskrit term Niṣādarāja can be transliterated into English as Nisadaraja or Nishadaraja, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavyashastra (science of poetry)

Source: Shodhganga: Bhismacaritam a critical study

Niṣādarāja (निषादराज) figures as a male character in the Bhīṣmacarita (Bhishma Charitra) which is a mahākāvya (‘epic poem’) written by Hari Narayan Dikshit.—Niṣādarāja was the chief of the fishermen and father of Satyavatī, known as Matsyagandhā. Our poet has portrayed him as the most selfish, greedy, boastful and angry person in the present epic. He is totally portrayed as a villain in the happiness of his own daughter Satyavatī as she falls in love with King Śāntanu and Niṣādarāja becomes an obstacle in their union by putting very unethical conditions for marriage to the King.—(cf. Bhīṣmacarita VII.54)

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Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, kāvyaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian tradition of poetry (kavya). Canonical literature (shastra) of the includes encyclopedic manuals dealing with prosody, rhetoric and various other guidelines serving to teach the poet how to compose literature.

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Partial matches: Nishada, Raja.

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Hanuman Nataka (critical study) (by Nurima Yeasmin)

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Later Chola Temples (by S. R. Balasubrahmanyam)

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Bhishma Charitra (by Kartik Pandya)

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