. "mahakavya"@en . "300410359" . "2016-11-16T08:28:17"^^ . . . "2016-11-16T09:25:45"^^ . "mahakavyas"@en . "Sanskrit poems of the kavya literary style; mahakavyas are short epics characterized by elaborate figures of speech. In its classical form, a mahakavya consists of a variable number of comparatively short cantos, each composed in a meter appropriate to its particular subject matter, which is taken from the epic tradition."@en .