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Kavya (poetry)

Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of Sriharsa

Goraṅku (गोरङ्कु) means both “a bard” and “a Jaina mendicant”.—The word Nagna means also a Jaina mendicant, and it is remarkable that there is another word Goraṅku which also means both “a bard” and “a Jaina mendicant”. Viśvaprakāśa, for instance, says “goraṅkuḥ pakṣijātau ca bhavennagnakavandinoḥ”, “kṣapaṇavandinoḥ | nagnakaḥ”. Medinī and Anekārthasaṃhraha say the same thing, while Keśavasvāmin gives only Nagna and Vandina as the meanings of Goraṅku. Trikāṇḍaśeṣa says “khage nagne ca goraṅkuḥ”. The double meanning of the two words Nagna (or Nagnācārya) and Goraṅku seems to sugget that Jaiona mendicants soimetimes served as bards or panegyrists.

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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

Goraṅku (गोरङ्कु).—

1) a water-fowl

2) a prisoner.

3) a naked man, a mendicant wandering about without clothes.

4) a chanter.

Derivable forms: goraṅkuḥ (गोरङ्कुः).

Goraṅku is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms go and raṅku (रङ्कु).

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

Goraṅku (गोरङ्कु).—m.

(-ṅkuḥ) 1. A water-fowl. 2. A prisoner, a person or animal confined. 3. A naked man, a mendicant, &c. wandering about without clothes. E. go water, sky, &c. raṅku a kind of deer: as it were, the water deer, &c. gavā vācā raṅkuriva .

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

1) Goraṅku (गोरङ्कु):—[=go-raṅku] [from go] m. a waterfowl, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] a chanter, bard (lagna), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] a bailsman, guarantee, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) [v.s. ...] a naked man (nagna for lagna ?), [Horace H. Wilson]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Goraṅku (गोरङ्कु):—[go-raṅku] (ṅkuḥ) 2. m. A water-fowl; a prisoner; a naked man.

[Sanskrit to German]

Goranku 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Go, Ranku.

Full-text: Nagna, Nagnacarya.

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