राजशेखर

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

राजशेखर/ राज--शेखर m. (also with कवि, सूरिetc. ) N. of various authors and teachers ; ( esp. ) of a poet (son of दुर्दकand शील-वती, tutor of महेन्द्रपाल, king of कान्यकुब्ज; he lived in the 10th century and wrote 4 plays , viz. प्रचण्ड-पाण्डवor बाल-भारत, बाल-रामायण, विद्धशाल-भञ्जिका, and कर्पूर-मञ्जरी)

Purana Encyclopedia

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

RĀJAŚEKHARA : A Sanskrit dramatist who lived in India in 7th century A.D. Bālabhārata or Prakāṇḍa- pāṇḍava, Bālarāmāyaṇa, Viddhaśālabhañjikā and Kar- pūramañjarī 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, Kāvya- mīmāṁsā in eighteen chapters.

Some scholars hold the view that Rājaśekhara lived in the 10th century A.D.


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*3rd word in left half of page 628 (+offset) in original book.