Shankhadatta, Śaṅkhadatta, Shankha-datta: 4 definitions
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Shankhadatta means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Śaṅkhadatta can be transliterated into English as Sankhadatta or Shankhadatta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraŚaṅkhadatta (शङ्खदत्त) is the name of a Brāhman, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 74. Accordingly, “... in the meanwhile a heroic and wealthy young Brāhman, of the name of Śaṅkhadatta, who was a friend of both brothers [Samarabhaṭa and Bhīmabhaṭa], came and said to Samarabhaṭa: ‘You ought not to carry on hostility with your elder brother [Bhīmabhaṭa]; it is not right, and you cannot do him an injury: on the contrary the result of a quarrel would be disgraceful to you’”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Śaṅkhadatta, 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.
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’.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumŚaṅkhadatta (शङ्खदत्त) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—a poet under Jayāpīḍa. Rājataraṅgiṇī 4, 496.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Śaṅkhadatta (शङ्खदत्त):—[=śaṅkha-datta] [from śaṅkha] m. Name of a poet, [Rājataraṅgiṇī]
2) [v.s. ...] of another man, [Kathāsaritsāgara]
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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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