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राजशेखर (rAjazekhara)

 
Capeller Eng
English
राजशेखर
m.
N.
 of a poet.
Apte 1890
English
राजशेखर Author of the Bāla-Rāmāyaṇa, Bāla-Bhārata, and Viddhaśālabhañjikā. He lived after Bhavabhūti and before the end of the tenth century, that is, he flourished between the end of the 7th and the middle of the 10th century.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
राज—शेखर
m.
 (also with कवि, सूरि
&c.
 )
N.
 of various authors and teachers
(esp. ) of a poet (son of Durdaka and Śīla-vatī, tutor of Mahendrapāla, king of Kānyakubja
he lived in the 10th century and wrote 4 plays, viz. Pracaṇḍa-pāṇḍava or Bāla-bhārata, Bāla-rāmāyaṇa, Viddhaśāla-bhañjikā, and Karpūra-mañjarī)
Apte Hindi
Hindi
राजशेखरः
पुं*
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"बालरामायण, बालभारत और विद्धशालभंजिका का रचयिता।यह भवभूति के पश्चात् दसवीं शताब्दी के अन्त से पूर्व हुआ, अर्थात् यह सातवीं शताब्दी के अन्त और दसवी शताब्दी के मध्य हुआ।"
Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
English
राजशेखर a writer on alaṃkāra. Quoted twice in
Alaṃkāraśekhara.
राजशेखर son of Durduka and Śīlavatī, tutor to Ma-
hendrapāla, king of Kanyakubjā (inscriptions of 903
and 907) wrote 4 plays:
Karpūramañjarī.
Pracaṇḍapāṇḍava or Bālabhārata.
Bālarāmāyaṇa.
Viddhaśālabhañjikā.
In the introduction to the Bālarāmāyaṇa he speaks
of 6 works of his. Verses of his are quoted
by Kṣemendra, Maṅkha, Śp. p. 77, Skm.
(where he is mentioned by Abhinanda as a
contemporary, and by Vasukalpa), Sbhv. in
Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa, Gaṇaratnamahodadhi.
See Saṃkṣepaśaṅkarajaya Oxf. 255. 258^a.
राजशेखर
Kāvyamīmāṃsā Kavirahasya.
पुराणम्
English
राजशेखर / RĀJAŚEKHARA. A Sanskrit dramatist who lived in india in 7th century A.D. Bālabhārata or Prakāṇḍapāṇḍava, Bālarāmāyaṇa, Viddhaśālabhañjikā and Karpūramañjarī are his more famous dramatic works. Karpūramañjarī refers to him as the preceptor of a king of Kanauj. rājaśekhara was known by the name kavirāja also.
Bālarāmāyaṇa, called also Mahānāṭaka, is a drama in ten Acts. Bālabhārata contains only two Acts. Its theme is the wedding of draupadī and the ruin caused by the game of dice. Viddhaśālabhañjikā is a drama in four Acts. He has a further work to his credit, Kāvyamīmāṁsā in eighteen chapters.
Some scholars hold the view that rājaśekhara lived in the 10th century A.D.
Capeller
German
राजशेखर
m.
 N. eines Dichters.