Vikramatunga, Vikramatuṅga: 3 definitions
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Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara1) Vikramatuṅga (विक्रमतुङ्ग) is the name of a king from Pāṭaliputra according to the story “the brave king Vikramatuṅga” according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 35. Accordingly, “in that city [Pāṭaliputra] there dwelt long ago a brave king named Vikramatuṅga, who in giving never turned his back on a suppliant, nor in fighting on an enemy. That king one day entered the forest to hunt and saw there a Brāhman offering a sacrifice with vilva fruits”.
The story of Vikramatuṅga was narrated to king Hemaprabha by queen Alaṅkāraprabhā in order to demonstrate that “the Lord grants their desires to men of fierce courage, seeming to be either terrified or pleased by them”.
2) Vikramatuṅga (विक्रमतुङ्ग) is the name of an ancient king from Vikramapura, as mentioned in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 53. Accordingly, as Pralambabāhu said to Naravāhanadatta: “... there is in this country a great and splendid city of the name of Vikramapura. In it there lived long ago a king named Vikramatuṅga. He was distinguished for statesmanship, and though his sword was sharp, his rod of justice was not so; and he was always intent on righteousness, but not on women, hunting, and so forth”.
The story of Vikramatuṅga was narrated by Gomukha to Naravāhanadatta in order to demonstrate that “sovereigns, by their merit in a previous life, sometimes fall in with exceptionally heroic servants, who, in their nobility of soul, abandoning regard for their lives and all other possessions for the sake of their master, conquer completely the two worlds”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Vikramatuṅga, 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 Dictionary1) Vikramatuṅga (विक्रमतुङ्ग):—[=vi-krama-tuṅga] [from vi-krama > vi-kram] 2. vi-krama-tuṅga m. Name of a prince of Pāṭali-putra, [Kathāsaritsāgara]
2) [v.s. ...] of a prince of Vikrama-pura, [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: Tunga, Vikrama.
Full-text: Shatrunjaya, Pataliputra, Nagasharman, Vikramapura, Dattasharman, Viravati, Sattvavara, Dharmavati, Viravara.
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