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Kāvya (Devanagari: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá) refers to the Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets flourishing between c.200 BCE and 1200 CE. [1] [2]This literary style, which includes both poetry and prose, is characterised by abundant usage of figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, and hyperbole to create its characteristic emotional effects.
Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa.Estimates of his floruit range from the 4th century BCE [1] to the 4th century CE; [2] the thirteen plays attributed to him are commonly dated closer to the first or second century CE.
Ashok Row Kavi (born 1947), Indian journalist and LGBT rights activist; Emmanuel Kavi (born 1970), African contemporary artist and painter; Giriraja Kavi, 18th century Telugu composer; Gnanananda Kavi (born 1922), Indian poet; Lakshmidhara Kavi, Advaita Vedanta preceptor and writer of Advaita Makaranda; Kasula Purushottama Kavi (fl. 1798 ...
A related question is the form in which Sanskrit words were loaned in Old Javanese. The borrowed Sanskrit words in Old Javanese are almost without exceptions nouns and adjectives in their undeclined form (Sanskrit lingga). Old Javanese texts contain many more characters with similar phonology values to represent distinct vowels and consonants ...
The Harshacharita (Sanskrit: हर्षचरित, Harṣacarita; English: The deeds of Harsha) is the biography of Indian emperor Harsha by Banabhatta, also known as Bana, who was a Sanskrit writer of seventh-century CE India. He was the Asthana Kavi, meaning Court Poet, of Harsha.
Bāṇabhaṭṭa (Sanskrit: बाणभट्ट) was a 7th-century Sanskrit prose writer and poet from India.He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of the Emperor Harsha, who reigned c. 606–647 CE in northern India, first from Sthanvishvara, and later Kanyakubja.
The word Mahakavi or Maha Kavi is an Indian honorific which means "Great Poet" in Sanskrit. This may refer to: ... Poets. Kālidāsa, 5th-century Sanskrit playwright ...
Tikkana (or Tikkana Somayaji) (1205–1288) was a 13th century Telugu poet. Born into a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family during the golden age of the Kakatiya dynasty, he was the second poet of the "Trinity of Poets (Kavi Trayam)" that translated Mahabharata into Telugu.