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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (kavya)

Vadhūvara (वधूवर) refers to the “bride and the groom”, according to Kālidāsa’s Raghuvaṃśa verse 7.20.—Accordingly: “There lord Bhoja’s venerable chaplain, who was like fire, offered clarified butter and other things to the fire, and having made the same [fire] witness to the marriage he wed the bride and the groom (vadhūvara)”.

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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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vadhūvara (वधूवर).—a newly married couple.

Derivable forms: vadhūvaram (वधूवरम्).

Vadhūvara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vadhū and vara (वर).

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

1) Vadhūvara (वधूवर):—[=vadhū-vara] [from vadhū] n. sg. or m. [plural] bride and bridegroom, a newly-married couple, [Hemacandra’s Pariśiṣṭaparvan]

2) [v.s. ...] m. [plural] brides and bridegroom, [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: Vara, Vadhu, Vatu.

Starts with: Vatuvarar.

Ends with: Kumudinivadhuvara.

Full-text: Kumudinivadhuvara, Vadhuvarem, Ovara, Ohara, Vadhu.

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