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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Vyāghrabala (व्याघ्रबल) is the name of an ancient king allied to king Mahendrāditya from Avanti, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 120. Accordingly, as Mahendrāditya asked his messenger Anaṅgadeva: “... is it well with King Vikramaśakti, the general of my forces, and with Vyāghrabala and the other kings? And does good fortune attend on the other chief Rajputs in his army, and on the elephants, horses, chariots and footmen?”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Vyāghrabala, 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.

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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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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Vyāghrabala (व्याघ्रबल).—name of a yakṣa: Mahā-Māyūrī 61(?). The mss. read the line: yakṣau siṃhabalau yau tu Siṃhavyāghra- balābalau; see Lévi's note for the evidently puzzled trans- lations; but at least one Chin. supports the theory that Siṃhabala and Vyāghrabala are the two names, ā in balābalau being lengthened m.c.

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

1) Vyāghrabala (व्याघ्रबल):—[=vyāghra-bala] [from vyāghra > vyā-ghrā] m. Name of a king, [Kathāsaritsāgara]

2) [v.s. ...] of a mythical person, [Vīracarita]

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Vyaghrabala in German

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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: Bala, Vyaghra.

Full-text: Simhabala.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing Vyaghrabala, Vyāghrabala, Vyaghra-bala, Vyāghra-bala; (plurals include: Vyaghrabalas, Vyāghrabalas, balas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter CXX < [Book XVIII - Viṣamaśīla]

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