Vidyuddhvaja: 3 definitions
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Vidyuddhvaja means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. 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.
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Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraVidyuddhvaja (विद्युद्ध्वज) is the name of an Asura according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 115. Accordingly, “... and by the favour of Brahmā, who was pleased with his asceticism [of Vidyutprabha], that enemy of the gods obtained a son named Vidyuddhvaja, who was invulnerable at their hands. That son of the king of the Daityas, even when a child, was of great valour...”.
Vidyuddhvaja was slain by the Gods (Devas) and the Vidyādhara Muktāphalaketu, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 114. Accordingly, as the the two heavenly swans (Piṅgeśvara and Guheśvara) said this to King Brahmadatta (Maṇipuṣpeśvara): “... come, let us go to that holy place of Śiva on the Tridaśa mountain, rightly named Siddhīśvara, where the gods performed asceticism in order to bring about the destruction of the Asura Vidyuddhvaja. And they slew that Asura in fight, with the help of Muktāphalaketu, the head of all the Vidyādhara princes, who had been obtained by the favour of Śiva”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Vidyuddhvaja, 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’.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryVidyuddhvaja (विद्युद्ध्वज):—[=vidyud-dhvaja] [from vidyud > vi-dyut] m. Name of an Asura, [Kathāsaritsāgara]
[Sanskrit to German]
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.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Dhvaja, Vidyut.
Full-text: Muktaphalaketu, Raudrastra, Airavana, Ayahkaya, Pingaksha, Tridashashaila, Siddhishvara, Tridasha, Vidyutprabha, Akampana, Mahamaya, Subahu.
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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)
Chapter CXV < [Book XVII - Padmāvatī]
Chapter CXVI < [Book XVII - Padmāvatī]
Chapter CXIV < [Book XVII - Padmāvatī]
Puranic encyclopaedia (by Vettam Mani)