Alternative spellings of this word include Chandaprabha.

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Caṇḍaprabha (चण्डप्रभ) is one of the five ministers (mantrin) of Sundarasena: the son of king Mahāsena and Śaśiprabhā from Alakā, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 101. Accordingly, as Muni Kaṇva said to Mṛgāṅkadatta in his hermitage: “... that prince [Sundarasena] had five heroic ministers, equal in age and accomplishments, who had grown up with him from their childhood,... [viz., Caṇḍaprabha]... And they were all men of great courage, endowed with strength and wisdom, well born, and devoted to their master, and they even understood the cries of birds. And the prince lived with them [viz., Caṇḍaprabha] in his father’s house without a suitable wife, being unmarried, though he was grown up”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Caṇḍaprabha, is a famous Sanskrit epic story revolving around prince Naravāhanadatta and his quest to become the emperor of the vidyādharas (celestial beings). The work is said to have been an adaptation of Guṇāḍhya’s Bṛhatkathā consisting of 100,000 verses, which in turn is part of a larger work containing 700,000 verses.

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Kavya (काव्य, kavya) refers to Sanskrit poetry, a popular ancient Indian tradition of literature. There have been many Sanskrit poets over the ages, hailing from ancient India and beyond. This topic includes mahakavya, or ‘epic poetry’ and natya, or ‘dramatic poetry’.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Caṇḍaprabha (चण्डप्रभ):—[=caṇḍa-prabha] [from caṇḍa > caṇḍ] m. Name of a man, [Kathāsaritsāgara ci, 48.]

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Candaprabha in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), 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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Partial matches: Prabha, Canda.

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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter CI < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]

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