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kāvya

kāvyá mfn. (fr. kaví), endowed with the qualities of a sage or poet, descended or coming from a sage, prophetic, inspired, poetical, [RV. i, 117, 12]; [viii, 8, 11]; [VS.]; [AV.]


[id., [RV. v, 39, 5]; [x, 144, 2]; [VS.]]


kāvyá mf(A)n. coming from or uttered by the sage Uśanas, [Parāś.]; [MBh. ii, 2097]


kāvyá (ás), m. (gaṇa kurv-ādi) a patr. of Uśanas, [RV.]; [TS.] &c.


kāvyá mf(A)n. of the planet Śukra, [VarBṛS.]; [Sarvad.]


kāvyá (ās), m. pl. poems, [MBh. ii, 453]


a class of Manes, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; [Lāṭy.]; [Mn. iii, 199]


the descendants of Kavi, [VP.]


kā́vya (am), n. wisdom, intelligence, prophetic inspiration, high power and art (often in pl.), [RV.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. xi]


a poem, poetical composition with a coherent plot by a single author (opposed to an Itihāsa), [R.]; [Sāh.] &c.


term for the first tetrastich in the metre Ṣaṭ-pada


a kind of drama of one act, [Sāh. 546]


a kind of poem (composed in Sanskṛt interspersed with Prākṛt), [Sāh. 563]


happiness, welfare, [L.]