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  2. Sanskrit literature - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit.This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit, texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as some mixed and non-standard forms of Sanskrit.

  3. Sangita Ratnakara - Wikipedia

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    Sangita Ratnakara was written by Śārṅgadeva, also spelled Sarangadeva or Sharangadeva.Śārṅgadeva was born in a Brahmin family of Kashmir. [11] In the era of Islamic invasion of the northwest regions of the Indian subcontinent and the start of Delhi Sultanate, his family migrated south and settled in the Hindu kingdom in the Deccan region near Ellora Caves (Maharashtra).

  4. South Asian riddles - Wikipedia

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    The answers to the first three questions, when combined in the manner of a charade, yield the answer to the fourth question. The first answer is bird ( vi ), the second dog ( çva ), the third sun ( mitra ), and the whole is Viçvamitra , Rama 's first teacher and counselor and a man noted for his outbursts of rage.

  5. Bhaṭṭikāvya - Wikipedia

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    As literature, cantos 1, 2 and 10 in particular stand comparison with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The Bhaṭṭikāvya provides a comprehensive exemplification of Sanskrit grammar in use and a good introduction to the science ( śāstra ) of poetics or rhetoric ( alaṃkāra , lit. ornament).

  6. Subhashita - Wikipedia

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    A subhashita (Sanskrit: सुभाषित, subhāṣita) is a literary genre of Sanskrit epigrammatic poems and their message is an aphorism, maxim, advice, fact, truth, lesson or riddle. [1] Su in Sanskrit means good; bhashita means spoken; which together literally means well spoken or eloquent saying. [2]

  7. Dashakumaracharita - Wikipedia

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    Dashakumaracharita (The narrative of ten young men, IAST: Daśa-kumāra-Carita, Devanagari: दशकुमारचरित) is a prose romance in Sanskrit ...

  8. Uttararamacarita - Wikipedia

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    The Later Story of Rama) is a Sanskrit play in seven acts in the Nataka style by Bhavabhuti. [1] It depicts the later life of Hindu god Rama , from the coronation after Rama's return from exile, to his reunion with his wife Sita whom he abandoned immediately after his coronation and his two sons Lava and Kusha , covering a period of more than ...

  9. Tarka-Sangraha - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Annambhatta composed the text as well as the commentary in the second half of 17th century CE. [3] The text of Tarka-sangraha is a small book with about 15 pages only [4] and it was composed to help boys and girls learn easily the basic principles of Nyaya. Of all the works of Annambhatta, only Tarka-Sangraha and its commentary attained ...