Mahavaraha, Maha-varaha, Mahavarāha, Mahāvarāha: 12 definitions
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Mahavaraha means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali. 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.
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexMahavarāha (महवराह).—An account of, in the varāha purāṇa.*
- * Matsya-purāṇa 53. 39.
The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s 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.
Kavya (poetry)
Source: Wisdom Library: KathāsaritsāgaraMahāvarāha (महावराह) is the name of a king from Śūrapura, as mentioned in the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 52. Accordingly as Gomukha said in the presence of Naravāhanadatta, Alaṅkāravatī and Aśokamālā: “... there is on the earth a city rightly named Śūrapura, and in it there lived a king named Mahāvarāha, the destroyer of his foes. That king had a daughter named Anaṅgarati, born to him by his wife Padmarati, owing to his having propitiated Gaurī; and he had no other children”.
The story of Mahāvarāha was told by Gomukha in order to demonstrate that “divine beings fall by virtue of a curse, and, owing to the consequences of their own wickedness, are incarnate in the world of men, and after reaping the fruit appropriate to their bad conduct they again go to their own home on account of previously acquired merit”.
The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Mahāvarāha, 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.
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’.
Vastushastra (architecture)
Source: archive.org: Catalogue of Pancaratra Agama Texts (vastu)Mahāvarāha (महावराह) is the name of a deity situated in the East on the Vimāna, as discussed in chapter 13 of the Ādikāṇḍa of the Hayaśīrṣasaṃhitā: a large Pāñcarātra Āgama consisting of roughly 6500 verses dealing primarily with architecture, temple-building and consecration rituals and iconography.—Description of the chapter [prāsādalakṣaṇa-paṭala]: [...] Then the comparative heights of various parts of the temple are discussed (25-27). This is followed by a brief discussion of where the various deities should be located on the vimāna (?)—Mahāvarāha in the East, Narasiṃha in the South, Śrīdhara in the West, Hayaśīrṣa in the North, Jamadagni in the Southeast, Rāma in the Southwest, Vāmana in the Northwest and Vāsudeva in the Northeast. [...]
Vastushastra (वास्तुशास्त्र, vāstuśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian science (shastra) of architecture (vastu), dealing with topics such architecture, sculpture, town-building, fort building and various other constructions. Vastu also deals with the philosophy of the architectural relation with the cosmic universe.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryMahāvarāha (महावराह).—'the great boar', an epithet of Viṣṇu in his third or boar incarnation.
Derivable forms: mahāvarāhaḥ (महावराहः).
Mahāvarāha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mahā and varāha (वराह).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryMahāvarāha (महावराह).—m.
(-haḥ) Vishnu in his boar-incarnation. E. mahā, varāha a boar.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryMahāvarāha (महावराह).—and
Mahāvarāha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mahā and varāha (वराह).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumMahāvārāha (महावाराह) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—A work quoted in Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha Oxf. 247^a.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Mahāvarāha (महावराह):—[=mahā-varāha] [from mahā > mah] m. ‘great boar’, Name of Viṣṇu in his boar incarnation, [Raghuvaṃśa]
2) [v.s. ...] of a king, [Kathāsaritsāgara]
3) [v.s. ...] of a [work] (cf. -vārāha).
4) Mahāvārāha (महावाराह):—[=mahā-vārāha] [from mahā > mah] m. Name of [work] (cf. -varāha).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryMahāvarāha (महावराह):—[mahā-varāha] (haḥ) 1. m. Boar incarnation.
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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.
Nepali dictionary
Source: unoes: Nepali-English DictionaryMahāvarāha (महावराह):—n. the boar; the third of Vishnu's ten incarnations;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Maha, Varaha, Mahanta.
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