Padmadarshana, Padmadarśana: 6 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Padmadarśana can be transliterated into English as Padmadarsana or Padmadarshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

[«previous next»] — Padmadarshana in Kavya glossary
Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Padmadarśana (पद्मदर्शन) is one of the friends of Arjara: a young man that became king of Vilāsapura, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 40. Accordingly, “... and King Ajara, having gained over the subjects and the Queen Kamalaprabhā by kind treatment, enjoyed the royal fortune together with his friends. Then he summoned a friend called Bheṣajacandra and another called Padmadarśana and made both of them like himself, satisfying them with gifts of elephants, horses and villages”.

The story of Padmadarśana and Ajara was narrated by Tapantaka (son of Vasantaka) in order to demonstrate that “everything depends upon the power of actions in a former life”, in other words, that “in this world all the good and bad fortune that befalls all men at all times is earned by actions in a former life”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Padmadarśana, 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.

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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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[«previous next»] — Padmadarshana in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Padmadarśana (पद्मदर्शन).—m.

(-naḥ) The resin of the Pinus longifolia.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Padmadarśana (पद्मदर्शन):—[=padma-darśana] [from padma] m. ‘looking like a l°’, the resin of the Pinus Longifolia, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] Name of a man, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Padmadarśana (पद्मदर्शन):—[padma-darśana] (naḥ) 1. m. Resin.

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Padmadarshana in German

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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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