Ravanaganga, Ravana-ganga, Rāvaṇagaṅga, Rāvaṇagaṅgā: 5 definitions
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Kavya (poetry)
Source: Shodhganga: The Kavyamimamsa of RajasekharaRāvaṇagaṅga (रावणगङ्ग) is the name a locality mentioned in Rājaśekhara’s 10th-century Kāvyamīmāṃsā.—In is the south Indian river to Rājaśekhara. However, it is difficult to identify this river but it was situated in Ceylon or the Laṅkā of Rāvana. The Rāvanahṛada situated in the Himālayas with an image of Rāvana on its bank seems. Though it is to be different from this Rāvanagaṅgā.
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 dictionaryRāvaṇagaṅgā (रावणगङ्गा).—Name of a river in Laṅkā.
Rāvaṇagaṅgā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms rāvaṇa and gaṅgā (गङ्गा).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryRāvaṇagaṅgā (रावणगङ्गा):—[=rāvaṇa-gaṅgā] [from rāvaṇa > rāva] f. ‘R°’s Ganges’, Name of a river in Laṅka, [Gāruḍa-purāṇa]
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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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Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study) (by Debabrata Barai)
Part 8.5 - Region of Dakṣiṇāpatha (southern part) < [Chapter 5 - Analyasis and Interpretations of the Kāvyamīmāṃsā]
Appendix 2 - Identification of Geographical names mentioned in the Kāvyamīmāṃsā
Manasollasa (study of Arts and Sciences) (by Mahadev Narayanrao Joshi)
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Minerals and Metals in Sanskrit literature (by Sulekha Biswas)
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Garuda Purana (by Manmatha Nath Dutt)
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