The Sanskrit term Janāśraya can be transliterated into English as Janasraya or Janashraya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Janāśraya (जनाश्रय) (C. 580-620 C.E.) is one of the authors of Sanskrit prosody that have enriched the Sanskrit literature through their various interpretations.—While Piṅgala introduces eight gaṇas, Janāśraya is going one step away from him by introducing 18 gaṇas. He gives a new vista to the study of prosody with this application. These 18 gaṇas31 also include the 8 gaṇas of Piṅgala with different names. His gaṇa structure is given below.

King Janāśraya is described as the author of Jānāśrayīchandoviciti. The text is printed with the commentary of Guṇasvāmin. M. R. Kavi says that Mādhava Varman is the alternative name of the king Janāśraya. Krishnamachariar identifies this Mādhava Varman with Mādhavarman-II of Viṣṇukuṇḍin dynasty.

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Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.

Kavya (poetry)

Source: archive.org: Naisadhacarita of Sriharsa

Janāśraya (जनाश्रय) refers to a “pavilion”, and as mentioned in the Naiṣadha-carita 10.37.

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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

Janāśraya (जनाश्रय).—a pavilion.

Derivable forms: janāśrayaḥ (जनाश्रयः).

Janāśraya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms jana and āśraya (आश्रय).

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

Janāśraya (जनाश्रय).—m.

(-yaḥ) A temporary hall. E. jana man, and āśraya an asylum. janānāṃ lokānām āśrayaḥ . maṇḍape .

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

Janāśraya (जनाश्रय):—[from jana > jan] m. ‘man-shelter’, inn, caravansery, [Rājataraṅgiṇī iii, 480.]

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

Janāśraya (जनाश्रय):—[janā+śraya] (yaḥ) 1. m. A temporary hall.

[Sanskrit to German]

Janashraya 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Janāśraya (ಜನಾಶ್ರಯ):—

1) [noun] a place where people take refuge; an asylum.

2) [noun] a temporary shed, pandal.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Ashraya, Jana.

Ends with: Veshyajanashraya.

Full-text: Kalambi, Veshyajanashraya, Janashrayichandoviciti, Shricandrasuri, Harshata, Jayadeva, Vardhamana, Jayadevachandas, Mandapa.

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Kashyapa Shilpa-shastra (study) (by K. Vidyuta)

1. Definition of Maṇḍapa (pavilions) < [Chapter 4 - Maṇḍapa Lakṣaṇa]

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Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī)

Verse 1.2.268 < [Part 2 - Devotional Service in Practice (sādhana-bhakti)]

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