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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Ratnanadī (रत्ननदी) is the name of a a river flowing near Bhīmapura, as mentioned in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 123. Accordingly, “... in the morning Keśaṭa and Kandarpa set out from that place together, and, crossing the sea, reached in due course a city named Bhīmapura, near the river called Ratnanadī. There they heard a great noise on the bank of that river, and when they went to the place whence it came, they saw a fish that filled the channel of the stream from bank to bank. It had been thrown up by the tide of the sea, and had got fast in the river owing to the vastness of its bulk, and men with various weapons in their hands were cutting it up to procure flesh”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Ratnanadī, 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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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Ratnanadī (रत्ननदी):—[=ratna-nadī] [from ratna] f. ‘j°-river’, Name of a river, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

[Sanskrit to German]

Ratnanadi 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, Nadi, Nati.

Full-text: Bhimapura.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing Ratnanadi, Ratnanadī, Ratna-nadi, Ratna-nadī; (plurals include: Ratnanadis, Ratnanadīs, nadis, nadīs). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter CXXIII < [Book XVIII - Viṣamaśīla]

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