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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Kuladhara (कुलधर) is the name of an ancient king, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 59. Accordingly, “... the King Kuladhara once had a servant of distinguished valour, a young man of good family, named Śūravarman. And one day, as he was returning from war, he entered his house suddenly, and found his wife alone with his friend”.

The story of Kuladhara was narrated by Gomukha to Naravāhanadatta in order to demonstrate that “some ordinary men even, being kindly disposed towards the three worlds, resist with firm resolution the disturbance of love and other passions”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Kuladhara, 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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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Kuladhara (कुलधर):—[=kula-dhara] [from kula] m. ‘upholder of his family’, Name of a prince, [Kathāsaritsāgara lx, 3.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Kuladhara 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

Kuladhara (ಕುಲಧರ):—[noun] a man who gives a good status or position to his family in the society.

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Kuḷadhara (ಕುಳಧರ):—[noun] a man who gives a good status or position to his family in the society.

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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: Dhara, Kula, Tara.

Starts with: Kuladharaka.

Full-text: Kulamdhara, Shuravarman.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing Kuladhara, Kula-dhara, Kuḷadhara; (plurals include: Kuladharas, dharas, Kuḷadharas). 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)

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