Brihatkatha, Brihat-katha, 叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻: 11 definitions

Introduction
In Hinduism
1. Purana
2. General definition
In Jainism
1. General definition
India history
Languages
1. Sanskrit
See also

Introduction:

Brihatkatha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Jainism, Prakrit, 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 叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 can be transliterated into English as Brhatkatha or Brihatkatha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

: archive.org: Puranic Encyclopedia

叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 (啶啶灌い啷嵿啶ムぞ).鈥擲ee Gu峁嚹佱笉hya.

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The Purana (啶啶班ぞ啶�, pur膩峁嘺s) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India鈥檚 vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

General definition (in Hinduism)

: Google Books: Shiva's Own Story

The 'Brihatkatha', or Lord Shiva's narrative to his wife Parvati, is featured in Gunadhya's epic composition 'Katha Sarita Sagara' in Sanskrit. Somadeva's adaptation retains the storyline, with Lord Shiva substituting for Lord Kubera, the God of Wealth. C H Tawney, blending pure Hindu mythology with Buddhist and tantric beliefs, translated the story into English as The Ocean of a Story, which runs 12 volumes and includes footnotes. Shiva's Own Story is a condensed version of Tawney's work. The setting of the stories is India in the 10th and 11th centuries, when the country was composed of many small kingdoms and fiefdoms. There was no dearth of monarchs with dynastic ambitions. The king was usually advised by an intelligent and devoted Brahman minister. The heir apparent, the crown prince, had a circle of friends, mostly sons of the king's ministers, who became part of the cabinet when the prince became king. Intrigue was rife and matrimonial alliances were often a strategy to expand the kingdom. In a country where illiteracy is still formidable, storytelling is a means of promoting and propagating religious and moral culture.

: WikiPedia: Hinduism >

Brihatkatha, literally meaning the big (vrihat) story (katha), is an ancient Indian epic, and a great many classic Indian fables like the Panchatantras, Hitopadesha, Vetala Panchvimshati and others have probably been taken from this source, and many of the stories have traveled far and wide.

Brihatkatha has become a legend living only through later (mostly Sanskrit) adaptations like Kathasaritsagara, Brihatkathamanjari and 叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻艣lokasa峁僩raha as the original prakrit version has been "lost".

Origin of the Satvahana Brihatkatha:

Shiva had narrated the story of the Vidyadharas to Parvati. Sivas gana Pushpadanta happened to overhear the story. When Parvati was cursing Pushpadanta his friend Malyavan tried to plead on his behalf and got a share of the curse. Pushpadanta was to tell the story to Pishacha Kanabhuti in a forest and then get relief from the curse and get reborn in Kaushambi as Vararuchi. Meanwhile Malyavan was to be released from the curse only when he would collect the story from the Pisacha and release the story to the world.

Malyavan (born under the name of Gunadhya) went into the Bindhya forest to get the story from the Pisacha and wrote down the story with his own blood in the Paisachi language. But when he took the story to the King Satvahana, the king refused to acknowledge the story (probably because it was written in Paisachi) and Gunadhya retired to the forest again. One of the versions of Kathasaritsagara suggests that when Gunadhya set a fire and kept reading out the Brihatkatha page by page and sacrifice the read out page in the fire. All the animals were so charmed by the story that they all gathered there and silently listened to the story.

The King (Satvahana) had gone to the forest to hunt and could not find any animal but was himself charmed by an amusing sound and was attracted to the source. When he reached the source he found Gunadhya sacrificing the epic written in his own blood page by page. He managed to stop Gunadhya from sacrificing the seventh chapter but all the six previous chapters had already been sacrificed. This seventh verse is the only remains of the Brihatkatha from which all the later adaptations鈥攍ike Kathasaritsagara鈥攈ave been made.

In Jainism

General definition (in Jainism)

: Singhi Jain Series: Ratnaprabha-suri鈥檚 Kuvalayamala-katha

叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 (啶啶灌い啷嵿啶ムぞ) refers to a work by Gu峁嚹乨hya that was written the Paishachi language, according to the 8th-century Kuvalayam膩l膩 written by Uddyotanas奴ri, a Prakrit Camp奴 (similar to K膩vya poetry) narrating the love-story between Prince Candr膩p墨岣峚 and the Apsaras K膩dambar墨.鈥擳here is a mention of four major languages, namely, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsha and Paishachi; and during the 8th century, vast body of Apabhramsha literature appears to have been already produced. The Paishachi language seems to have been represented by the 叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 which had survived in its original form upto the time of Uddyotanas奴ri. This appears to be very probable since the original Pai艣膩c墨叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 was known to K峁mendra who based his Sanskrit version on it.

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Jainism is an Indian religion of Dharma whose doctrine revolves around harmlessness (ahimsa) towards every living being. The two major branches (Digambara and Svetambara) of Jainism stimulate self-control (or, shramana, 鈥榮elf-reliance鈥�) and spiritual development through a path of peace for the soul to progess to the ultimate goal.

India history and geography

: academic.ru: South Asian Arts

The principal work of the novelistic and picaresque tale is the 叠峁沨补迟-办补迟丑腻 (鈥淕reat Story鈥�) of Gu峁嚹佱笉hya, written in Pr膩krit and now lost, save for Sanskrit retellings. The most important among these Sanskrit versions is the 碍补迟丑腻-蝉补谤颈迟蝉腻驳补谤补 (鈥淥cean of Rivers of Stories鈥�) of Somadeva (11th century), which includes so many subsidiary tales that the main story line is frequently lost. Perhaps more faithful to the original鈥攊n any case far less distracting鈥攊s the 叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻艣lokasa峁僩raha (鈥淪ummary in Verse of the Great Story鈥�), by Budhasv膩min (probably 7th century), one of the most charming of Sanskrit texts. Other collections of tales include the 痴别迟腻濒补-辫补帽肠补惫颈峁兣沘迟颈办腻 (鈥淭wenty-five Tales of a Ghost鈥�), 艢奴办补蝉补辫迟补迟颈 (鈥淭he Seventy Stories of a Parrot鈥�), and the 厂颈峁僪腻蝉补苍补-诲惫腻迟谤颈尘-蝉腻迟颈办腻 (鈥淭hirty-two Stories of a Royal Throne鈥�).

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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

: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 (啶啶灌い啷嵿啶ムぞ).鈥擭ame of a work ascribed to Gu峁嚹佱笉hya; 啶灌ぐ啶侧啶侧啶� 啶ㄠ 啶じ啷嵿く啶掂た啶膏啶く啶距く啶啶灌い啷嵿啶ムぞ (haral墨leva no yasya vismay膩ya 产峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻) Hch.

叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms 产峁沨补迟 and 办补迟丑腻 (啶曕ぅ啶�).

: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 (啶啶灌い啷嵿啶ムぞ).鈥擺feminine] the large narrative, T. of a work.

: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) 叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 (啶啶灌い啷嵿啶ムぞ) as mentioned in Aufrecht鈥檚 Catalogus Catalogorum:鈥攂y Gu峁嚹佱笉hya. Mentioned by Da峁囜笉in Oxf. 204^a, by Somadeva Oxf. 151^b, by Dhana峁僯aya Oxf. 203^a, by Dhanika on Da艣ar奴pa 4, 32.

2) 叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 (啶啶灌い啷嵿啶ムぞ):鈥擺anonymous] 碍腻峁璵. 7. 搁腻诲丑. 41.

3) 叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 (啶啶灌い啷嵿啶ムぞ):鈥斺€榙ifferent from those known.鈥� (?). Asb. 1893, 254 ([fragmentary]).

4) 叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 (啶啶灌い啷嵿啶ムぞ):鈥攊n verse. Asb 193, 254 (Adhy膩ya 1 and a part of the second).

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

叠峁沨补迟办补迟丑腻 (啶啶灌い啷嵿啶ムぞ):鈥擺=产峁沨补迟-办补迟丑腻] [from 产峁沨补迟 > b峁涐箖h] f. 鈥榞reat narrative鈥�, Name of a collection of tales ascribed to Gu峁嚹佱笉hya (from which the Kath膩-sarit-s膩gara of Somadeva is said of another [work])

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Sanskrit, also spelled 啶膏啶膏啶曕啶むぎ啷� (蝉补峁僺办峁泃补尘), 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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