The Sanskrit term Upendraśakti can be transliterated into English as Upendrasakti or Upendrashakti, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavya (poetry)

Source: Wisdom Library: Kathāsaritsāgara

Upendraśakti (उपेन्द्रशक्ति) is the name of a merchant (vaṇij), according to the Kathāsaritsāgara, chapter 73. Accordingly, “... one day a great merchant, named Upendraśakti, found an image of Gaṇeśa, carved out of a jewel, on the border of a tank, and brought it and gave it to that prince. The prince, seeing that it was of priceless value, out of his fervent piety set it up in a very splendid manner in a temple”.

The Kathāsaritsāgara (‘ocean of streams of story’), mentioning Upendraśakti, 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

Upendraśakti (उपेन्द्रशक्ति):—[=upendra-śakti] [from upendra] m. Name of a merchant.

[Sanskrit to German]

Upendrashakti 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: Shakti, Upendra.

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Full-text: Mahendrashakti.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing Upendrashakti, Upendra-śakti, Upendra-sakti, Upendra-shakti, Upendraśakti, Upendrasakti; (plurals include: Upendrashaktis, śaktis, saktis, shaktis, Upendraśaktis, Upendrasaktis). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) (by Somadeva)

Chapter LXXIII < [Book XII - Śaśāṅkavatī]

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