Pushpapura, Puṣpapura, Pushpa-pura: 9 definitions
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Pushpapura means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, the history of ancient India. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Puṣpapura can be transliterated into English as Puspapura or Pushpapura, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
India history and geography
Source: archive.org: Geography in Ancient Indian inscriptionsPuṣpapura (पुष्पपुर) is another name of Pāṭaliputra meaning “the city of the flowers”.—Puṣpapura is mentioned in Allahabad Stone Pillar inscription of Samudragupta.
Source: archive.org: Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptionsPuṣpapura (पुष्पपुर) or Puṣpapurī is another name for Pāṭaliputra: a place mentioned in the Gupta inscriptions. The Gupta empire (r. 3rd-century CE), founded by Śrī Gupta, covered much of ancient India and embraced the Dharmic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Pāṭaliputra is the same as modern Patna situated to the south of the river Gaṅgā. The city was also known as Kusumapura due to the abundance of flowers. Its name Puṣpapura is also met within the Raghuvaṃśa. The words Puṣpapura and Kusumapura also mean “a city of flowers”.
Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Early Gupta KingsPuṣpapura (पुष्पपुर).—The Allahabad inscription speaks of Samudragupta as amusing himself at a place called Puṣpa, that is, Puṣpapura, which can be no other than Pāṭaliputra. And the presumption is that the capital of his father Chandragupta, and, previous to him, of his Licchavi father-in-law also must have been Puṣpapura. And it may reason ably be asked whether there is any evidence in support of it. As was first pointed out by Bühler, “Dr. Bhagwanlal’s Nepal inscription No. XV informs us that the Licchavis ruled before the conquest of Nepal, and possibly also after that event, at Puṣpapura or Pāṭaliputra, the ancient capital of India north of the Ganges.”
The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryPuṣpapura (पुष्पपुर).—Name of Pāṭaliputra; प्रासादवातायनसंश्रितानां नेत्रोत्सवं पुष्पपुराङ्गनानाम् (prāsādavātāyanasaṃśritānāṃ netrotsavaṃ puṣpapurāṅganānām) R.6.24.
Derivable forms: puṣpapuram (पुष्पपुरम्).
Puṣpapura is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms puṣpa and pura (पुर).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPuṣpapura (पुष्पपुर).—n.
(-raṃ) Pataliputra or Palibothra. E. puṣpa flower, and pura a city.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPuṣpapura (पुष्पपुर):—[=puṣpa-pura] [from puṣpa > puṣ] n. ([Raghuvaṃśa] etc.) Name of the city Pāṭali-putra or Palibothra.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryPuṣpapura (पुष्पपुर):—[puṣpa-pura] (raṃ) 1. n. Pātaliputra.
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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: Pushpa, Pura.
Full-text: Pataliputra, Pushpapuri, Shalishuka, Amyntas, Agniveshya, Paushpa, Kusumapura, Suganga.
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