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  • are the historical context of the Sanskrit epics, such as the Mahabharata ... E.) are the historical context of the Sanskrit epics, such as the Mahabharata ...
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  • literature to flourish in Kannada and Sanskrit. ==History== ... that time in Kannada (Jatakatilaka) and Sanskrit (Gadyakarnamrita) have also ...
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  • This Hindu holy city, described as early as in the Hindu Epics, had been called Ayojjhā (Pali) during the time of Gautama Buddha. Under the ...
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  • The Sanskrit epics Aitareya Brahmana and Mahabharata mention Andhra ... Sanskrit literature and Hindu scriptures highly influenced Telugu ...
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  • to the Brahmana period of Vedic Sanskrit). Historical evidence suggests ... texts were translated from Pali and Sanskrit to Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese ...
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  • quot; or "distant." In Sanskrit yava means barley, a plant ... and the arts flourished, and the Hindu epics were translated from Sanskrit ...
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  • in many ancient religious texts, including epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata ... language of the people (as opposed to Sanskrit)part of a larger Bhakti ...
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  • John L Brockington, The Sanskrit Epics (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers ... *Brockington, John L. The Sanskrit Epics. Leiden: Brill Academic ...
    36 KB (6,032 words) - 22:05, 24 November 2022
  • The Rashtrakuta Dynasty (Sanskrit: राष्ट्रकूट ... important works in Kannada and Sanskrit. Amoghavarsha I emerged ...
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  • an offshoot dating to around 80 C.E. The Sanskrit commentaries of the Digambara ... Māgadhi, but after the Christian era, Sanskrit became more popular. ...
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  • due to which literature in Kannada and Sanskrit flourished. Ninth-century ... and an accomplished poet in Kannada and Sanskrit. He served King Marasimha ...
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  • adopted as the local belief system. Sanskrit became the literary and ... characters did not originate in the Hindu epics, but were added later, possibly ...
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  • known collection of Indian fables. Indian epics such as Krishna Dwaipayana ... * Bidpai (ca. 200 B.C.E.), author of Sanskrit (Hindu) and Pali (Buddhist ...
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  • Tamil literature like Sangam poetry and epics like Silapthigaaram have ... language has been far less influenced by Sanskrit than the other Dravidian ...
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  • have influenced the writing style of Indian epics. Calligraphy in India was ... Lantsa and used to write the original texts of Sanskrit. ...
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  • in many ancient religious texts, including epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata ... Chaturdandi Prakasika (c. 1635 C.E.) in Sanskrit. Govindacharya expanded ...
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  • Greek speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana". "Yona" and "Yavana" are both transliterations ...
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  • Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics, Iliad and Odyssey ... Poetry that records historic events in epics, such as Gilgamesh or Ferdowsi ...
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  • The Mahabharata, one of the major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, describes the encounter between the accomplished wrestlers of Bhima and Jarasandha; ...
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  • from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit Sindhu, the historic local ... The principal texts of Hinduism (the Vedas), the great Indian epics ...
    64 KB (9,545 words) - 12:04, 10 June 2024

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