Rajadhiraja, Raja-adhiraja, Rājādhirāja, Rajan-adhiraja: 15 definitions
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India history and geography
Source: Wikipedia: India HistoryKopparakesarivarman Rajadhiraja Chola I was an 11th-century emperor of the Indian Chola empire and the successor of his father, Rajendra Chola I. During his long reign, he helped his father conquer many territories and maintained the Chola authority over most of Lanka, Vengi, Kalinga, etc. and the relations with overseas domains despite a series of revolts in the territory. During Rajadhiraja’s reign this became very acute as Vikramabahu launched an all out attack on the Tamil armies to expel them from the island. He was assisted by a Pandya prince Vikarama Pandya and Jagatpala, a prince from the distant Kanauj in North India. Rajadhiraja’s forces battled and killed these princes.
Rajadhiraja, eager to subdue the rising power of the Western Chalukyas and to restore Chola influence with the Eastern Chalukyas in Vengi, personally led an expedition into the Telugu country in 1046 CE. He defeated the Western Chalukya forces in a battle at Dannada on the river Krishna and set fire to their fort. Rajadhiraja invaded Rattamandalam (southern Karnataka) and immediately seized many of the southern parts of Chalukyan territory like Uchangi, Nulambavadi, Kadambalige, Kogali etc.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical GlossaryRājādhirāja.—(IE 8-2; EI 21, 22, 30; CII 3, 4), title of paramount sovereignty; an imperial title meaning ‘the king of kings’; used in the Gupta period in some metrical passages, both alone and along with Rājarājādhirāja. Cf. Adhirājarāja (EI 9). Note: rājādhirāja is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryrājādhirāja (राजाधिराज).—m (S) A king of kings, an emperor, a king who has kings tributary.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishrājādhirāja (राजाधिराज).—m A king of kings, an emperor.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryRājādhirāja (राजाधिराज).—a king of kings, a supreme king, paramount sovereign, an emperor.
Derivable forms: rājādhirājaḥ (राजाधिराजः).
Rājādhirāja is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms rājan and adhirāja (अधिराज). See also (synonyms): rājendra.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryRājādhirāja (राजाधिराज).—m.
(-jaḥ) A paramount sovereign. E. rājā, adhirāja superior prince.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryRājādhirāja (राजाधिराज).—[masculine] king of kings, supreme king.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryRājādhirāja (राजाधिराज):—[from rāja > rāj] m. a king of kings, paramount sovereign, [Taittirīya-āraṇyaka]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryRājādhirāja (राजाधिराज):—[rājā+dhirāja] (jaḥ) 1. m. Emperor.
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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.
Hindi dictionary
Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryRājādhirāja (राजाधिराज) [Also spelled rajadhiraj]:—(nm) a king of kings, an emperor.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusRājādhirāja (ರಾಜಾಧಿರಾಜ):—[noun] a supreme sovereign; an emperor.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Pali-English dictionary
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionaryrājādhirāja (ရာဇာဓိရာဇ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[rāja+adhirāja．rājadhirāja-saṃ,rāyāmirāya-prā．]
[ရာဇ+အဓိရာဇ။ ရာဇဓိရာဇ-သံ၊ ရာယာမိရာယ-ပြာ။]
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Adhiraja, Rajan, Raja.
Starts with: Rajadhirajasiha.
Full-text: Adhiraja, Maharajadhiraja, Rajadhiraj, Adhirajaraja, Rajendra, Maharaj, Maharaja, Gautama, Fifth Buddhist Council.
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