Alternative spellings of this word include Tarunachandra.

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Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Taruṇacandra (तरुणचन्द्र) is a physician from Vilāsapura in the service of king Vilāsaśīla, according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 40. Accordingly, “busied with reflections like these, the king [Vilāsaśīla] summoned into his hall of audience a physician named Taruṇacandra and thus spake to him respectfully: ‘My good man, because you are clever and devoted to me, I ask you whether there is any artifice by which this old age can be averted’”.

The story of Taruṇacandra and Vilāsaśīla was narrated by Tapantaka (son of Vasantaka) in order to demonstrate that “everything depends upon the power of actions in a former life”, in other words, that “in this world all the good and bad fortune that befalls all men at all times is earned by actions in a former life”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Taruṇacandra, 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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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

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