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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Ratnādhipati (रत्नाधिपति) is the name of a king from Ratnakūṭa, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 36. Accordingly, “there is here a great island in the midst of the sea, named Ratnakūṭa. In it there lived in old times a king of great courage, a devoted worshipper of Viṣṇu, rightly named Ratnādhipati. That king, in order to obtain the conquest of the earth, and all kings’ daughters as his wives, went through a severe penance, to propitiate Viṣṇu.”.

The story of Ratnādhipati was narrated by Ratnaprabhā in order to demonstrate that “women of good family are guarded by their own virtue as their only chamberlain; but even God himself can scarcely guard the unchaste” in other words, “in no case can anyone guard a woman by force in this world, but the young woman of good family is ever protected by the pure restraint of her own chastity”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Ratnādhipati, 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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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Ratnādhipati (रत्नाधिपति).—a superintendent of precious stones.

Derivable forms: ratnādhipatiḥ (रत्नाधिपतिः).

Ratnādhipati is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms ratna and adhipati (अधिपति).

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

1) Ratnādhipati (रत्नाधिपति):—[from ratna] m. ‘superintendent of treasures’, Name of Agastya, [Bālarāmāyaṇa]

2) [v.s. ...] of a king, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

[Sanskrit to German]

Ratnadhipati 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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Partial matches: Ratna, Adhipati.

Full-text: Amritalata, Devaprabha, Papabhanjana, Rajavati.

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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter XXXVI < [Book VII - Ratnaprabhā]

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