Sanskrit Poetry, from Vidyākara's Treasury

Sanskrit Poetry, from Vidyākara's Treasury

Author: Vidyākara

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780674788657

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In this rich collection of Sanskrit verse, the late Daniel Ingalls provides English readers with a wide variety of poetry from the vast anthology of an eleventh-century Buddhist scholar. Although the style of poetry presented here originated in royal courts, Ingalls shows how it was adapted to all aspects of life, and came to address issues as diverse as love, sex, heroes, nature, and peace. More than thirty years after its original publication, Sanskrit Poetry continues to be the main resource for all interested in this multifaceted and elegant tradition.


The Subhāṣitaratnakoṣa

The Subhāṣitaratnakoṣa

Author: Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi

Publisher: Belknap Press

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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This edition of the Sanskrit text of the Subhāṣitaratnakoṣa--in the editors' opinion the oldest known general anthology of Sanskrit verse--is the result of years of work deciphering and comparing the five different versions. The editors' aim has been to restore, as far as the sources permit, the text compiled by Vidyākara between A.D. 1100 and 1130.


The Dhvanyāloka of Ānandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta

The Dhvanyāloka of Ānandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta

Author: Ānandavardhana

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 854

ISBN-13: 9780674202788

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For nearly a thousand years the brilliant analysis of aesthetic experience set forth in the Locana of Abhinavagupta, India's founding literary critic, has dominated traditional Indian theory on poetics and aesthetics. The Locana, presented here in English translation for the first time, is a commentary on the ninth-century Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana, which is itself the pivotal work in the history of Indian poetics. The Dhvanyaloka revolutionized Sanskrit literary theory by proposing that the main goal of good poetry is the evocation of a mood or "flavor" (rasa) and that this process can be explained only by recognizing a semantic power beyond denotation and metaphor, namely, the power of suggestion. On the basis of this analysis the Locana develops a theory of the psychology of aesthetic response. This edition is the first to make the two most influential works of traditional Sanskrit literary and aesthetic theory fully accessible to readers who want to know more about Sanskrit literature. The editorial annotations furnish the most complete exposition available of the history and content of these works. In addition, the verses presented as examples by both authors (offered here in verse translation) form an anthology of some of the finest Sanskrit and Prakrit poetry.


Caurapa–c__ik_

Caurapa–c__ik_

Author: Greg Bailey

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0814799388

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Short lyrical poems in a Sanskrit-English bilingual edition.


The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Author: Roland Greene

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2012-08-26

Total Pages: 1678

ISBN-13: 0691154910

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Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.


Heroic Kr̥ṣṇa

Heroic Kr̥ṣṇa

Author: Kevin McGrath

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780674073333

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Heroic Kṛṣṇa depicts a pre-Hindu superhuman hero who became the divinity Krsna. Drawn from the epic Mahābhārata, Kevin McGrath's account of the warrior-charioteer and his friendship with Arjuna explores cultural continuities from the Bronze Age Vedic world and illustrates the pre-divine life of one of the most popular Indian deities of today.


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Author: Shih Shun Liu

Publisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 220

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Strī

Strī

Author: Kevin McGrath

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 244

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This book is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahābhārata, and focuses particularly on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them. It portrays those qualities that cohere about women in the poem, which are particular to them and which distinguish them as women, and describes how women heroes function as crucial speakers in the generation and maintenance of cultural value and worth. This includes men who have been transformed into women and women who have been reincarnated as men. The overall method accomplishes an ethnography of text, describing a special aspect of the bronze age preliterate and premonetary world as it is represented by the actions and metaphors of Mahābhārata. References to contemporary Indian cinema and popular culture support the narrative of the book, bringing modern valence to the arguments.


Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime

Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime

Author: Vijay Mishra

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-08-06

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780791438725

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Combines Western theories of the sublime (from Longinus to Lyotard) with indigenous Indian modes of reading in order to construct a comprehensive theory of both the Indian sublime and Indian devotional verse.