Suvarnagiri, Suvarṇagiri, Suvarna-giri: 3 definitions
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India history and geography
Source: Ancient Buddhist Texts: Geography of Early BuddhismSuvarṇagiri (सुवर्णगिरि) (or Suvaṇṇagiri in Pali) is the name of a locality situated in Dakkhiṇāpatha (Deccan) or “southern district” of ancient India, as recorded in the Pāli Buddhist texts (detailing the geography of ancient India as it was known in to Early Buddhism).—Suvarṇagiri is mentioned in Minor Rock Edict I (Brahmagiri text) of Asoka. It was a viceregal seat of Asoka’s provincial government in the Deccan and here a Kumāra was posted as Viceroy.
It is difficult to identity the ancient Suvarṇagiri. Hultzsch, however, identifies it with Kanakagiri in the Nizam’s dominions, south of Maski, and north of the ruins of Vijayanagara. Dr. H. C. Ray Chaudhuri thinks that “a clue to the location of this city is probably given by the inscriptions of the later Mauryas of Konkan and Khandesh, apparently the descendants of the southern Viceroy. As these later Maurya inscriptions have been found at Vāda in the north of the Thāṇa district and at Wāghlī in Khandesh, it is not unlikely that Suvarṇagiri was situated in the neighbourhood. Curiously enough there is actually in Khandesh a place called Songir”.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySuvarṇagiri (सुवर्णगिरि):—[=su-varṇa-giri] [from su-varṇa] m. Name of a mountain, [ib.]
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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: Giri, Suvarna.
Full-text: Svarnagiri, Suvannagiri.
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