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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.
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 ...
Chitra-kavya (picture-poetry) is an ancient Indian tradition of writing poetry in visual patterns by play of meaning (shabdalankāra) (based in brilliant flexible play of vowels, consonants, words and sound). It is the device of constructing verses that can be written out in the form of a lotus or of a chariot.
Nāgarī is an adjective derived from nagara , a Sanskrit word meaning "town" or "city", and literally means "urban" or "urbane". [21] The word Nāgarī (implicitly modifying lipi , "script") was used on its own to refer to a North Indian script, or perhaps a number of such scripts, as Al-Biruni attests in the 11th century; the form ...
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 ...
The most convenient method of inputting romanized Sanskrit is by setting up an alternative keyboard layout. This allows one to hold a modifier key to type letters with diacritical marks. For example, alt+a = ā. How this is set up varies by operating system.
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.
Majority of scholars theorize that Bharavi was from the southern region of India. The inscriptions that mention him are from western Deccan region. R.R. Bhagawat Sastri, who first suggested that Bharavi from southern India, argues that his description of the Sahya mountains (the Western Ghats) in southern India is vivid and more realistic than his rather fanciful description of the Himalayas ...