Magha : ancient Sanskrit poet, son of Dattaka, & author of Shishupāla-vadha.
... day and night of, 127; Kalpa (aeon), 127; Dvaparayuga, 49, 139; Kaliyuga, 2, 3, 13, 14-16, 19, 46-49, 98-9, 104, 134, 145, 224; Krita Age, 133, 139, 145; Tretayuga, 139 generation units, 134-6 Magha, Magha-century, 6, 7, 8, 11, 46, 47, 49, 50, 98-99, 104, 225 Page 636 Sapta Rishi/Seven Rishis (Great Bear) cycle, 6-7, 11, 46-9, 98-9, 105-111, 224 ... (Vāhlīki), 528 'Maga', Magā, Magas, 'Maka', 'Makā', 268, 269, 276-77, 593 Maga Thogon, 277 Maga-Brāhmanas, 277 Magadha, 1, 113, 118-21, 225, 241, 472, 486, 487, 488 Magha (Devaputra), 432 Maghā, Maghā-century, 7, 8, 11, 46, 47, 49, 104, 225 Maghā, Nakshatra, 99 Maghadhavasi, 544 Maghas of Baghelkund and Kauśāmbi, 30, 335, 432, 464 Magi ...
... inscription under review. The absence of any regal title may suggest that Magha was a prince or subordinate ruler.... Elsewhere (The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 176) we have suggested the possibility of the Magha dynasty of Kausambi being 'founded by a lieutenant of the Kusanas (of Kanishka's house) named Magha'. Whether Devaputra Magha, mentioned in the Mathura inscription, had anything to do with the... somewhat differently by V. S. Agrawala and D. C. Sircar. 2 What is common to both the renderings is the expression: "Devaputra Magha." Sircar's general comment 3 is: "In the present state of our knowledge, it is difficult to be definite regarding the identity of Devaputra Magha, although his title Devaputra as well as the palaeography of the inscription under review would point to his membership of... By the way, we may point out in the palaeographical context that in The Age of Imperial Unity (pp. 175-77) Sircar chooses to date the Magha rulers of Kauśāmbī by the Śaka Era of 78 A.D ., which he attributes to Kanishka and by which some of the Magha dates are quite away from the currently believed Gupta times, 1.Mookerji, The Gupta Empire, p. 113. 2.Sircar, "A Brāhmī Inscription ...
... intended to be some suggestion of the other idea of vája, possession. The path is action of knowledge, the goal is vája, possession or plenteous having, magha, fullness or plenty, of Asurya, the divine might, Force or Tapas of the divine Nature,—magha & vája, full & assured having as opposed to the partial visitations which we receive in this mortal state & mortal nature and cannot invariably use or... established working and their increasing strength, gayam pushtim cha. The expression by vachas, by the girah has been attained. It is their fullnesses, magháni that the Rishi now covets, for the word magha in Veda means a full & copious state or satisfying and abundant possession as opposed to rare & exceptional visitations or enjoyments and to small & limited seeings. These fullnesses the Solar Purushas ...
... temperament, general materials, poetic method, and much of it has a high genius or an unusual quality and distinction though not the same perfection, beauty and felicity. The literary epics of Bharavi and Magha reveal the beginning of the decline marked by the progressive encroachment of a rhetorical and laborious standard of form, method and manner that heavily burdens and is bound eventually to stifle the... to much that is neither suitable to his temperament and genius nor in itself beautiful or true. Nevertheless Bharavi has high qualities of grave poetic thinking and epic sublimity of description and Magha poetic gifts that would have secured for him a more considerable place in literature if the poet had not been crossed with a pedant. In this mixture of genius with defect of taste and manner the later ...
... maintained, physical ananda insisted on 3) Vijnanam made invariable, powers enforced in detail, samadhi extended. Sahitya was resumed today, the Life Divine commenced; also the systematic study of Magha, an orderly arrangement of material (छ dhatus) for the Structure of Sanscrit Speech and a review of past Prerana records begun. The insistence on physical ananda was not strong, but health & utthapana... active, successful & frequent. Page 96 Karma—The Life Divine continued, Rigveda resumed, nirukta & prerana slightly, kavya touched, Bhasha proceeded with. The difficulty of understanding Magha now only persists, ordinarily, where the meaning of important words is unknown. Triple dasya was strongly confirmed in the mind in relation to the Krishnakali bhava. The health & utthapana appear to ...
... Divine commenced; also the systematic study of Magha, 2 an orderly arrangement of material (chh dhatus 3 ) for the Structure of Sanscrit Speech and a review of past Prerana 4 records begun. "July 19 th . The Life Divine continued, Rigveda resumed, nirukta & prerana slightly, kavya" 1 touched, Bhasa proceeded with. The difficulty of understanding Magha now only persists, ordinarily, where the meaning ...
... ancient height and amplitude. While this kind of narrative writing goes back to the epics, another seems to derive its first shaping and motive from the classical poems of Kalidasa, Bharavi and Magha. A certain number take for their subject, like that earlier poetry, episodes of the Mahabharata or other ancient or Puranic legends, but the classical and epic manner has disappeared, the inspiration ...
... मगधा town of Magadha; long pepper. Page 691 मगध्यति to surround; serve, be slave; attend upon. मग्न मघः one of the Dwipas; a country; a drug or medicine; pleasure; Magha. मघं a kind of flower; gift, present; wealth, riches (Vd.) मघवः, मघवन्, मघवत् Indra; Vyasa; liberal, munificent; an owl. मघा the tenth asterism (5). मघाभवः, -भूः Venus ...
... together (in life) Book VI Canto I: The beginning describes the descent of Narad from Immortal's world to this earth (1-30 Lines) The Naishadhiya Charitam, a classical Sanskrit epic, by Magha opens with the description of descent of Narad from heaven. The student who is interested may compare these two to find for himself the difference between poetry which is from Overhead inspiration and ...
... . The Earth, also, because of its wideness & containing faculty is called mahi,—just as it is called prithivi, dhara, medini, dharani, etc. In various forms, the root itself, mahi, mahitwam, maha, magha, etc, it recurs with remarkable profusion and persistence throughout the Veda. Evidently it expressed some leading thought of the Rishis, was some term of the highest importance in their system of ...
... help, he removes that limitation, that concentration in detail, in the alpam, the little, that consequent necessity of losing hold of one thing in order to give yourself to another, he increases the magha, the vijnanamay state of mahattwa or relative non-limitation in the finite which shows itself by an increase of fundamental force of being filled with higher illumination. That support of vaja prevents ...
... excellence would consist in being more Indra-like in bounty than any such god in general. Hale's translation rests on a secondary aspect which the lexicographers have posited on the assumption that the Magha-vans connected with the Rigvedic priests and singers could be other than the gods who fundamentally bear that name. To press a wholly human Maghavan on our attention in 5,27,1 is unnecessary and arbitrary ...
... swimmers of Love's laughing fiery floods And dancers within raptures golden doors. 159 And here is a gorgeous imagery of Shiva applied to nature, reminding us of similar images of the poet Magha in his great Sanskrit poem: A matted forest-head invaded heaven As if a blue-throated ascetic peered From the stone fastness of his mountain cell Regarding the brief gladness of ...
... the description of the descent of Rishi Narad at the beginning of Book VI, canto I, from the world of Immortals to the earth has so much more of the overhead afflatus than a similar description in Magha's Naishadam (A. B. Purani, Savitri: An Approach and A Study, p. 381). 212. Ilion, p. 1. 213. Savitri, p. 4. 214. ibid., p. 829. Cf. R.L. Megroz: "Science ...
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