mahākāvya | महाकाव्य | mahAkAvya
mahā—kāvya | महा—काव्य | n. a great or classical poem (applied as a distinguishing title to 6 chief artificial poems, viz. the Raghu-vaṃśa, Kumārasambhava and Megha-dūta by Kālidāsa, the Śiśupāla-vadha by Māgha, the Kirātārjunīya by Bhāravi and the Naiṣadha-carita by Śrī-harṣa; accord. to some the Bhaṭṭi-kāvya is also a M˚), Kāvyād.; Pratāp. (IW. 452).