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Kaurava (कौरव)
Kaurava (कौरव), descendants of king Kuru, denotes chiefly Dhritarashtra's hundred sons led by Duryodhana, who fought the five Pandava cousins at Kurukshetra and were annihilated, ushering in kaliyuga.
Kauromal Chandanmal Khilnani
Kauromal Chandanmal Khilnani (ديوان ڪوڙو مل چندن مل کلناڻي, 1844–1916), known as Diwan Kauromal, was a Sindhi writer, educationist, and administrator called the father of Sindhi prose.
Kausilumina
Kausilumina (කව්සිළුමිණ, also spelled Kavsilumina) is a thirteenth-century Sinhala mahakavya by King Parakramabahu II of the Dambadeniya period, versifying the Kusa Jataka in 770 verses across 15 cantos.
Kav Silumina
Kav Silumina, literally "the crest-gem of poetry", is a Sinhalese epic poem of thirteenth-century Ceylon, generally attributed to King Parakramabahu II and woven around the Kusa-jataka, the story of the Bodhisattva king Kusa.
Kaval Kottam
Kaval Kottam (காவல் கோட்டம்) is a 2008 Tamil historical novel by Su. Venkatesan covering 600 years of Madurai's history; it won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil.
Kaveh
Kaveh (کاوه; also Kāva) was a Persian-language journal published in Berlin from 1916 to 1922 by nationalist Sayyed Ḥasan Taqizāda, funded by Germany during World War I.
Kavi Manch
Kavi Manch (कवि मंच, "the poet's stage") is the platform, live or online, where Hindi poets recite to an audience; its best-known form is the kavi sammelan.
Kavi sammelan
A kavi sammelan (कवि सम्मेलन) is an Indian gathering where poets recite their own verse to an audience, found across Indian languages, most prominently in Hindi and Marathi.
Kavijivan
Kavijivan (કવિજીવન) is an 1887 Gujarati biography of the poet and reformer Narmad, written by his contemporary Navalram Pandya a year after Narmad's death in 1886.
Kavikankan Chandi
Kavikankan Chandi (কবিকঙ্কণ চণ্ডী), also known as Kabikankan Chandi or Abhayamangal, is a 16th-century Bengali epic poem on the goddess Chandi, composed by Mukundaram Chakrabarti in West Bengal.
Kavikanthabharana
Kavikanthabharana (कविकण्ठाभरणम्, "Necklace of the Poet's Throat") is an 11th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics in five chapters by the Kashmirian poet Kshemendra, a practical manual that carries his doctrine of auchitya, or propriety.
Kavilok
Kavilok (કવિલોક) is a Gujarati poetry institution and the first bimonthly poetry journal in the language, founded after 1955 by Rajendra Shah and published in Ahmedabad.
Kavita
Kavita (कविता) is the word for poetry in modern Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi and Marathi, derived from the Sanskrit root behind kavi (poet) and kāvya.
Kavita ke Naye Pratiman
Kavita ke Naye Pratiman (कविता के नये प्रतिमान, "New Paradigms of Poetry") is a 1968 collection of critical essays in Hindi by critic Namvar Singh on judging Nayi Kavita.
Kavitavali
Kavitavali (कवितावली), also called Kabitt-Ramayan, is a collection of devotional quatrains on the life of Rama by the Hindi poet-saint Tulsidas, written in Braj Bhasha.
Kavitta
Kavitta (कवित्त), also known as manharan or ghanakshari, is a syllable-counting verse meter of Hindi and Brajbhasha poetry, made up of four lines of 31 letters each.
Kavya
Kavya (काव्य) is a Sanskrit term for poetry and creative literature characterized as classical, ornate, or courtly, subsuming prose romance, biography, and drama, with a documented history from the 7th century.
Kavyadarsha
Kavyadarsha (काव्यादर्श, Kāvyādarśa, "Mirror of Poetry") is a seventh-century Sanskrit verse treatise on poetics by Daṇḍin, a foundational alankara-school work that influenced works like the Kannada Kavirajamarga and Sinhala Siyabaslakara.
Kavyalankara
Kavyalamkara (काव्यालंकार, "Ornamenting Poetry") is a 7th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics by Bhamaha, the first to treat poetics apart from drama and defining 38 figures of speech.
Kavyalankarasutra
Kavyalankarasutra, also known as Kavyalankarasutravritti, is a Sanskrit treatise on poetics by the Kashmirian scholar Vamana, who taught that style (riti) is the soul of poetry.
Kāvyamālā
Kāvyamālā (काव्यमाला, "Garland of Poems") is a series of Sanskrit text editions launched in 1886 by the Nirnaya Sagar Press of Bombay, edited by Pandit Durgaprasad and Kashinath Pandurang Parab.
Kavyamimamsa
Kavyamimamsa (काव्यमीमांसा) is a Sanskrit treatise on poetics by the theorist Rajashekhara, composed around 880–920 CE. It treats poetry as a whole, covering the poet, composition, and the reader.
Kavyanushasana
Kavyanushasana (काव्यानुशासनम्, Kāvyānuśāsana) is a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by the Jain scholar Hemacandra in twelfth-century Gujarat, in eight chapters that follow the Rasadhvani theory.
Kavyaprakasha
Kavyaprakasha (काव्यप्रकाश, literally "Light of Poetry") is an influential 11th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics by the Kashmir scholar Mammaṭa, whose systematic account of dhvani and poetic theory became a standard teaching text.
Kavyavalokana
Kavyavalokana (ಕಾವ್ಯಾವಲೋಕನ) is a 12th-century Kannada treatise on poetics by the Jain scholar Nagavarma II, whose Shabdasmriti chapter is regarded as the first grammar of Kannada written in Kannada.
Kawabata Yasunari Prize
The Kawabata Yasunari Prize (川端康成文学賞) is a Japanese literary award for the most accomplished short story of the year, financed by Kawabata's 1968 Nobel Prize money.
Kayapó oral literature
Kayapó oral literature is the body of myths, tales, and oratory transmitted by speech among the Mebêngôkre (Kayapó) people of the Brazilian Amazon, a Jê-speaking people.
Kayar
Kayar (കയർ, "Coir") is a 1978 Malayalam epic novel by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, chronicling two and a half centuries of social change in Kuttanad, Kerala, across hundreds of characters; an English translation, Coir, appeared in 1997.
Kazakh literature
Kazakh literature (қазақ әдебиеті) is the oral and written literature of the Kazakh people in Kazakh and Russian, from oral epics through zhyrau poetry to Abai Qunanbaiuly, its modern classic.
Kaze no Stigma (風のスティグマ)
Kaze no Stigma (風のスティグマ, Stigma of the Wind) is a 2007 GONZO TV anime, 24 episodes, adapted from Takahiro Yamato's unfinished Fujimi Fantasia Bunko light novels about exiled wind mage Kazuma Yagami and fire mage Ayano Kannagi.