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Kavya (poetry)

Source: academia.edu: Bhoja’s Mechanical Garden

Jalamagna (जलमग्न) refers to the “submerged type of fountain houses” (dhārāgṛha).—A great variety of water mechanisms are mentioned, and Bhoja delineates no less than four distinct types of fountain houses (dhārāgṛha) that were to be enjoyed by kings: [viz., the submerged (jalamagna)]. All were to have structures made of elaborate carved wood and to be filled with statues and mechanical devices—of birds and various other figures including monkeys with gaping mouths.

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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: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Jalamagna (जलमग्न):—[=jala-magna] [from jala] mfn. immersed in water, [Horace H. Wilson]

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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: Jala, Magna.

Full-text: Jalmagn, Dharagriha.

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