The Sanskrit term Śūravarman can be transliterated into English as Suravarman or Shuravarman, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Śūravarman (शूरवर्मन्) is the servant of king Kuladhara, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 59. Accordingly, “... the King Kuladhara once had a servant of distinguished valour, a young man of good family, named Śūravarman. And one day, as he was returning from war, he entered his house suddenly, and found his wife alone with his friend”.

The story of Śūravarman was narrated by Gomukha to Naravāhanadatta in order to demonstrate that “some ordinary men even, being kindly disposed towards the three worlds, resist with firm resolution the disturbance of love and other passions”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Śūravarman, 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: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śūravarman (शूरवर्मन्) or Śaṃkaravarman.—m. proper names, [Rājataraṅgiṇī] 5, 251; 128; 22.

Śūravarman is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śūra and varman (वर्मन्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śūravarman (शूरवर्मन्).—[masculine] a man’s name.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Śūravarman (शूरवर्मन्) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—poet. [Subhāshitāvali by Vallabhadeva]

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

1) Śūravarman (शूरवर्मन्):—[=śūra-varman] [from śūra > sūr] m. Name of various men, [Kathāsaritsāgara; Rājataraṅgiṇī]

2) [v.s. ...] of a poet (also written sūra-v), [Catalogue(s)]

3) Suravarman (सुरवर्मन्):—[=sura-varman] [from sura > sur] m. Name of a king ([varia lectio] susthira-v), [Harṣacarita]

4) Sūravarman (सूरवर्मन्):—[=sūra-varman] [from sūra > sūr] m. Name of a poet, [Catalogue(s)]

[Sanskrit to German]

Shuravarman 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: Sura, Varman.

Starts with: Shuravarmabhidha.

Full-text: Shuravarmabhidha, Shamkaravarman, Kuladhara.

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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

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