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Gaudavaho, the Glossary

Gaudavaho ("Slaying of the Gauda king"), also known as Gauḍavaha, is an 8th-century Prakrit-language epic poem by Vākpatirāja.^[1]

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8th-century Indian books
8th-century poems
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A. K. Warder

Anthony Kennedy Warder (8 September 19248 January 2013) was a British Indologist.

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Apsaras (अप्सरा,, Akcharā Khmer: អប្សរា Thai:นางอัปสร) are a member of a class of celestial beings in Hindu and Buddhist culture They were originally a type of female spirit of the clouds and waters, but, later play the role of a "nymph" or "fairy".

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Ardhanarishvara

Ardhanarishvara (translit-std), is a form of the Hindu deity Shiva combined with his consort Parvati.

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Arjuna

Arjuna was an ancient prince of the Kuru Kingdom, located in the present-day India.

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Arya metre

Āryā meter is a meter used in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Marathi verses.

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Ayodhya (Ramayana)

Ayodhya is a legendary city mentioned in the ancient Sanskrit-language texts, including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

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Āma

Āma was a medieval Indian king who ruled Kannauj and surrounding areas during the 8th and the 9th centuries.

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Śvetāmbara

The Śvetāmbara (also spelled Shwetambara, Shvetambara, Svetambara or Swetambara) is one of the two main branches of Jainism, the other being the Digambara.

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Bharata (sage)

Bharata (Devanagari: भरत) was a muni (sage) of ancient India.

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Bhavabhuti

Bhavabhūti (Devanagari: भवभूति) was an 8th-century scholar of India noted for his plays and poetry, written in Sanskrit.

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Bhāsa

Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa.

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Bhima

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Bhima (भीम) is the second among the five Pandavas.

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Brahma

Brahma (ब्रह्मा) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the trinity of supreme divinity that includes Vishnu and Shiva.

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Brihatkatha

Bṛhatkathā (Sanskrit, "the Great Narrative") is an ancient Indian epic, said to have been written by Guṇāḍhya in a poorly-understood language known as Paiśācī. Gaudavaho and Brihatkatha are Prakrit literature.

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Chamunda

Chamunda (चामुण्डा), also known as Chamundeshwari, Chamundi or Charchika, is a fearsome form of Chandi, the Hindu mother goddess, Adi Parashakti and is one of the seven Matrikas.

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Chanakya

Chanakya (ISO:,; 375–283 BCE) was an ancient Indian polymath who was active as a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and politician.

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Colophon (publishing)

In publishing, a colophon is a brief statement containing information about the publication of a book such as an "imprint" (the place of publication, the publisher, and the date of publication).

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Duryodhana

Duryodhana (दुर्योधन), also known as Suyodhana, is the primary antagonist in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He was the eldest of the Kauravas, the hundred sons of the king Dhritarashtra and his queen Gandhari.

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Epitome

An epitome (ἐπιτομή, from ἐπιτέμνειν epitemnein meaning "to cut short") is a summary or miniature form, or an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment.

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Fly-whisk

A fly-whisk (or fly-swish) is a tool that is used to swat flies.

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Ganesha

Ganesha (गणेश), also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Lambodara and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon and is the Supreme God in the Ganapatya sect.

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Ganga (goddess)

Ganga (गङ्गा) is the personification of the river Ganges, who is worshipped by Hindus as the goddess of purification and forgiveness.

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Gatha (India)

Gāthā is a Sanskrit term for 'song' or 'verse', especially referring to any poetic metre which is used in legends or folklores, and is not part of the Vedas but peculiar to either Epic Sanskrit or to Prakrit.

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Georg Bühler

Professor Johann Georg Bühler (19 July 1837 – 8 April 1898) was a German scholar of ancient Indian languages and law.

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Halayudha

Halayudha (Sanskrit: हलायुध) wrote the, a commentary on Pingala's Chandaḥśāstra.

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Harishchandra

Harishchandra is a legendary king of the Solar dynasty, who appears in several legends in texts such as the Aitareya Brahmana, Mahabharata, the Markandeya Purana, and the Devi Bhagavata Purana.

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Harishena

Harishena was the last known ruler of the Vatsagulma branch of the Vakataka dynasty.

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Hermann Jacobi

Hermann Georg Jacobi (11 February 1850 – 19 October 1937) was an eminent German Indologist.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Historical Vedic religion

The historical Vedic religion, also known as Vedicism and Vedism, sometimes called "Ancient Hinduism", constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE).

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History of India

Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.

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Indra

Indra (इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism.

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Jain literature

Jain literature (Sanskrit: जैन साहित्य) refers to the literature of the Jain religion.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Jaisalmer

Jaisalmer, nicknamed "The Golden city", is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, located west of the state capital Jaipur.

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Janamejaya

Janamejaya (जनमेजय) was a Kuru king who reigned during the Middle Vedic period.

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Johannes Hertel

Johannes Hertel (13 March 1872, Zwickau – 27 October 1955, Leipzig) was a German Indologist.

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Kalhana

Kalhana (translit) was the author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the history of Kashmir.

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Kali

Kali (काली), also called Kalika, is a major Hindu goddess associated with time, change, creation, power, destruction and death in Shaktism.

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Kalidasa

Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.

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Kamadeva

Kama (कामदेव), also known as Kamadeva and Manmatha, is the Hindu god of erotic love, desire, pleasure and beauty, often portrayed alongside his consort and female counterpart, Rati.

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Karna

Karna (Sanskrit: कर्ण, IAST: Karṇa), also known as Vasusena, Anga-raja, and Radheya, is one of the main protagonists of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata.

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Kartavirya Arjuna

Kartavirya Arjuna (कार्तवीर्य अर्जुन,; also known as Sahasrabahu Arjuna or Sahasrarjuna) was a king of an ancient Haihayas kingdom with capital at Mahishmati which is on the banks of Narmada River in the current state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Kartikeya

Kartikeya, also known as Skanda, Subrahmanya, Shanmukha and Murugan, is the Hindu god of war.

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Kashmir

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Kathasaritsagara

The Kathāsaritsāgara ("Ocean of the Streams of Stories") (Devanagari: कथासरित्सागर) is a famous 11th-century collection of Indian legends and folk tales as retold in Sanskrit by the Shaivite Somadeva from Kashmir.

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Kingdom of Gauda

The Gauḍa Kingdom (Gauṛa Rājya) was a kingdom during the Classical era in the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the Gauda region of Bengal (modern-day West Bengal and Bangladesh) in 4th century CE or possibly earlier.

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Krishna

Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.

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Kurma

Kurma (lit), is the second avatar of the Hindu preserver deity, Vishnu.

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Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra is a city and administrative headquarters of Kurukshetra district in the Indian state of Haryana.

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Lakshmi

Lakshmi (sometimes spelled Laxmi) also known as Shri, is one of the principal goddesses in Hinduism.

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Lalitaditya Muktapida

Lalitaditya alias Muktapida (IAST: Lalitāditya Muktāpīḍa; r. c. 724 CE–760 CE) was a Kashmiri monarch belonging to the Karkota dynasty of Kashmir region in the Indian subcontinent.

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Later Gupta dynasty

The Later Gupta dynasty ruled Magadha in eastern India between the 6th and 8th centuries CE.

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Lost literary work

A lost literary work (referred throughout this article just as a lost work) is a document, literary work, or piece of multimedia, produced of which no surviving copies are known to exist, meaning it can be known only through reference.

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Lunar dynasty

The Lunar dynasty (IAST: Candravaṃśa) is a legendary principal house of the Kshatriyas varna, or warrior–ruling varna (Social Class) mentioned in the ancient Indian texts.

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Magadha

Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Mahakavya

Mahākāvya (lit. great kāvya, court epic), also known as sargabandha, is a genre of Indian epic poetry in Classical Sanskrit.

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Maharashtri Prakrit

Maharashtri or Maharashtri Prakrit is a Prakrit language of ancient as well as medieval India.

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Mahishasura

Mahishasura is a bovine asura in Hinduism.

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Malaya Mountains

The Malaya Mountains were a range of mountains that were mentioned in the Hindu sacred texts like Matsya Purana, the Kurma Purana, the Vishnu Purana, and the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

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Marwar

Marwar (also called Jodhpur region) is a region of western Rajasthan state in North Western India.

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Mīmāṃsā

Mīmāṁsā (Sanskrit: मीमांसा; IAST: Mīmāṃsā) is a Sanskrit word that means "reflection" or "critical investigation" and thus refers to a tradition of contemplation which reflected on the meanings of certain Vedic texts.

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Metre (poetry)

In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

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Mohini

Mohini (Sanskrit: मोहिनी) is the Hindu goddess of enchantment.

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Moriz Winternitz

Moriz Winternitz (Horn, December 23, 1863 – Prague, January 9, 1937) was a scholar from Austria who began his Indology contributions working with Max Müller at the Oxford University.

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Mount Kailash

Mount Kailash (also Kailasa; Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche; གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ;; कैलास) is a mountain in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Mount Mandara

Mandara (मन्दर, मन्दार) is the name of the mountain that appears in the Samudra Manthana episode in the Hindu Puranas, where it was used as a churning rod to churn the ocean of milk.

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Nalanda mahavihara

Nalanda (IAST) was a renowned Buddhist mahavihara (great monastery) in ancient and medieval Magadha (modern-day Bihar), eastern India.

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Narasimha

Narasimha (lit), sometimes rendered Narasingha, is the fourth avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.

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Narmada River

The Narmada River, previously also known as Narbada or anglicised as Nerbudda, is the 5th longest river in India and overall the longest west-flowing river in the country.

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Natya Shastra

The Nāṭya Shāstra (Nāṭyaśāstra) is a Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts.

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Nyāya Sūtras

The Nyāya Sūtras is an ancient Indian Sanskrit text composed by, and the foundational text of the Nyaya school of Hindu philosophy.

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Paramara dynasty

The House of Paramara is a prominent Indian Rajput dynasty that ruled over the Kingdom of Malwa, the Garhwal Kingdom, and many other kingdoms, princely states and feudal estates in North India.

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Parasika Kingdom

Parasika was an ancient Yavana kingdom inhabited by the Parasikas tribe and mentioned in the Indian epic the Mahabharata.

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Parvati

Parvati (पार्वती), also known as Uma (उमा) and Gauri (गौरी), is the Hindu goddess of power, energy, nourishment, harmony, love, beauty, devotion, and motherhood.

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Pingala

Acharya Pingala (c. 3rd2nd century BCE) was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the author of the, also called the Pingala-sutras, the earliest known treatise on Sanskrit prosody.

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Prabandha Kosha

Prabandha-Kosha (IAST: Prabandhakośa) is an Indian Sanskrit-language collection of prabandhas (legendary biographical narratives).

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Prakrit

Prakrit is a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE.

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Pralaya

Pralaya (translit) is a concept in Hindu eschatology.

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Prashasti

Prashasti (IAST: Praśasti, Sanskrit for "praise") is an Indian genre of inscriptions composed by poets in praise of their rulers.

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Prithu

.Chaitravamasa king kayasthas lord prithu incaranation of lord Vishnu satyuga era.

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Raghuvaṃśa

(Devanagari: रघुवंशम्, lit. 'lineage of Raghu') is a Sanskrit epic poem (mahakavya) by the celebrated Sanskrit poet Kalidasa.

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Rajatarangini

Rājataraṅgiṇī (Sanskrit: राजतरङ्गिणी, romanized: rājataraṅgiṇī, IPA: ɾɑː.d͡ʑɐ.t̪ɐˈɾɐŋ.ɡi.ɳiː, "The River of Kings") is a metrical legendary and historical chronicle of the north-western part of Indian sub-continent, particularly the kings of Kashmir.

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Ramayana

The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.

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Ravana

Ravana was an ancient mythological king of the island of Lanka, and the chief antagonist in the Hindu epic Ramayana.

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Rājyābhiṣeka

The rājyābhiṣeka is a late Vedic ceremony of coronation.

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Samudra Manthana

The Samudra Manthana (lit) is a major episode in Hinduism that is elaborated in the Vishnu Purana, a major text of Hinduism.

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Samudragupta

Samudragupta (Gupta script: Sa-mu-dra-gu-pta, (c. 335–375 CE) was the second emperor of the Gupta Empire of ancient India, and is regarded among the greatest rulers of India. As a son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I and the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi, he greatly expanded his dynasty's political and military power.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudavaho

Also known as Vakpati (8th century poet).

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8th-century Indian books

8th-century poems

Prakrit literature

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