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SANSKRIT LITERATURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hindu literature written in Sanskrit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Sanskrit literature" is a kind of...):
literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Sanskrit literature"):
Hastinapura (one of two classical Hindu epics; a great collection of poetry worked into and around a central heroic narrative (eight times as large as the Iliad and Odyssey combined))
Purana (a body of 18 works written between the first and 11th centuries and incorporating legends and speculative histories of the universe and myths and customary observances)
tantra (any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind)
sutra (a rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature or a group of aphoristic doctrinal summaries prepared for memorization)
Instance hyponyms:
Ramayana (one of two classical Hindu epics telling of the banishment of Rama from his kingdom and the abduction of his wife by a demon and Rama's restoration to the throne)
Kamasutra ((Hinduism) an ancient Sanskrit text giving rules for sensuous and sensual pleasure and love and marriage in accordance with Hindu law)
