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kavya

The English word “kavya” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A highly artificial Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets in the early centuries AD.
  2. poetry (especially in a classical style) in the literatures of India's modern languages

Etymology

From Sanskrit काव्य (kāvyá).

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