Shridarshana, Śrīdarśana: 5 definitions
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Shridarshana means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. 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 Śrīdarśana can be transliterated into English as Sridarsana or Shridarshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraŚrīdarśana (श्रीदर्शन) is the son of the Brāhman Devadarśana, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 73. Accordingly, as Aṭṭahāsa said to Saudāminī: “... and he took that young son given him by fate, and that wealth, and in the morning he made a great feast. And on the eleventh day he gave the child the appropriate name of Śrīdarśana. Then the Brāhman Devadarśana, having become very rich, remained performing his sacrificial and other ceremonies, and enjoying the good things of this world at the same time”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Śrīdarśana, 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
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionaryśrīdarśana (श्रीदर्शन).—n (S) A vision or manifestation of śrī or dēvī, or of a god or a goddess in general.
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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚrīdarśana (श्रीदर्शन).—[masculine] [Name] of a man.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚrīdarśana (श्रीदर्शन):—[=śrī-darśana] [from śrī] m. Name of a 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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Partial matches: Darshana, Shri.
Full-text (+1): Anangasena, Padmasena, Kamalagarbha, Shashikala, Anangodaya, Sughosha, Bahusasya, Jyotirlekha, Pradiptaksha, Abala, Padmagarbha, Padmishtha, Dhumalekha, Mukharaka, Vasubhuti, Yashasvati, Pathya, Subhuti, Diptashikha, Satyavrata.
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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Chapter LXXIII < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]
Impact of Vedic Culture on Society (by Kaushik Acharya)
Study of the Contemporary Literary Sources < [Chapter 3]