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Kavya (poetry)

Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of Sriharsa

Svārasika (स्वारसिक) refers to “voluntary” or “spontaneous”, and is mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 3.48.

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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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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

svārasika (स्वारसिक).—a S (svarasa) Possessing inherent or native sweetness, beauty, excellence;--as a poem, treatise, discourse.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

svārasika (स्वारसिक).—a Possessing native sweetness.

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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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Svārasika (स्वारसिक).—a. (-kī f.)

1) Possessing inherent flavour or sweetness (said of a poetical composition).

2) Voluntary, spontaneous; विधेरपि स्वारसिकः प्रयासः परस्परं योग्यसमागमाय (vidherapi svārasikaḥ prayāsaḥ parasparaṃ yogyasamāgamāya) N.3.48.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Svārasika (स्वारसिक).—f.

(-kā) Possessing inherent flavour or sweetness, (said of a poem.)

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

1) Svārasika (स्वारसिक):—mfn. ([from] sva-rasa) possessing inherent flavour or sweetness (as a poem etc.), [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

2) natural, self-evident, [Naiṣadha-carita]

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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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