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ID: 300410359
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300410359

 

Record Type: concept
mahakavyas (<poems by form>, poems, ... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Sanskrit poems of the kavya literary style; mahakavyas are short epics characterized by elaborate figures of speech. In its classical form, a mahakavya consists of a variable number of comparatively short cantos, each composed in a meter appropriate to its particular subject matter, which is taken from the epic tradition.
 
Terms:
mahakavyas (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
mahakavya (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)
mahakavya (Dutch,AD,U,U)
mahakavya's (C,U,Dutch,D,L,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.VW

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.... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of <concepts in the arts and humanities>
........ <concepts in the arts and humanities> (G)
Hierarchy of <genres in literature and performing arts>
............ <genres in literature and performing arts> (G)
Hierarchy of <genres for literature>
................ <genres for literature> (G)
Hierarchy of <poetry and poems>
.................... <poetry and poems> (G)
Hierarchy of poems
........................ poems (G)
Hierarchy of <poems by form>
............................ <poems by form> (G)
Hierarchy of mahakavyas
................................ mahakavyas (G)

Additional Notes:
Dutch ..... Sanskriet gedichten in de literaire stijl kavya. Mahakavya's zijn korte, epische gedichten die worden gekenmerkt door doorwrochte stijlfiguren. In zijn klassieke vorm bestaat een mahakavya uit een variabel aantal relatief korte canto's, elk in een metrum dat past bij het onderwerp. Deze onderwerpen worden uit de epische traditie gehaald.  

Related concepts:
contextualized in ....  kavya
................................  (<genres for literature>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, ... Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) [300410361]

Sources and Contributors:
mahakavya............  [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
....................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
....................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
mahakavyas............  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Datta, Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature (1988) 2: 1185
.......................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
.......................  Peterson, Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court Epic (2012)
mahakavya's............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred]
.......................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
 
Subject: .....  [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
............  UvA Talen
............  Westerlinck, Encyclopedie der wereldliteratuur (1963) 52
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Datta, Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature (1988) 2: 1185
.......... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)

 

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