Uttararamacharita (The Later Story Of Rama) (Hb/Pb)
Uttararamacharita (The Later Story Of Rama) (Hb/Pb)

Author: Bhavabhūti

Publisher: Global Vision Pub House

Published: 2004-08

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9788182200128

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Uttararamacharita By Bhavabhuti (7Th Century) Deals With The History Of Rama,S Later Life, Beginning With His Coronation, The Abandonment Of Sita, And Their Final Reunion. Bhavabhuti Says He Has Only Given A Dramatic Form To The Ramayana Katha Of Valmiki. It Is True That The Main Characters And Events In This Play Are Drawn From The Ramayana, But The Changes In Characters And Happenings Bhavabhuti Has Made, Including The Happy End, Cannot All Be Ascribed To The Demands Of The Dramatic Form. Bhavabhuti Has, In Fact, Presented The Rama Story With A New Motivation Within An Overall Design Implying Purposeful Art.

Bhavabhūti; [his Date, Life, and Works
Bhavabhūti; [his Date, Life, and Works

Author: Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9788120811805

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Bhavabhuti has been unanimously acclaimed as an eminent Sanskrit poet, second only to Kalidasa. The present work deals with the various problems concerning this great poet of Vidarbha such as the identification of his birthplace, his identity with Umbeka, the location of the god Kalapriyanatha at whose fairs all his plays were first staged, the chronological relation of his Uttra-Rama-charita to the Kundamala of Dhiranga, the influence of his works on later Sanskrit dramatists and so forth. Besides, the present work gives a detailed account of the plots of all his plays with numerous citations from them together with their English rendering, which will enable ordinary readers to appreciate his poetic genius and dramatic talent. it also states in detail the poet`s views on various religious, political and social matters. The present work is thus designed to meet the needs of both the ordinary and the critical readers of Bhavabhuti`s works.

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Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited

Published:

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 9312140930

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Shakuntala and Other Stories from Ancient India
Shakuntala and Other Stories from Ancient India

Author: Adithi Rao

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780143330394

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Six unforgettable stories of love and bravery, treachery and injustice, from ancient Indian literature Classical Sanskrit and Tamil writing teem with a myriad characters, and here we meet some truly memorable ones. This collection of six plays, poems and epics retold for children includes ‘Shakuntala’, a heartrending story of the love between the beautiful Shakuntala and King Dushyanta; ‘The Little Clay Cart’, where the evil designs of the king and his family are foiled by the righteous Charudatta and Vasantasena; ‘The Story of an Anklet’, about Kannagi, who wreaks a terrible revenge for the wrong done to her; ‘Manimekalai’, the extraordinary account of a woman’s search for her true calling; ‘The Last Trial of Sita’, in which the playwright gives a whole new ending to the Ramayana, and ‘The Broken Thigh’, about the final, desperate combat between Duryodhana and Bheema on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Accompanied by descriptions of the authors’ lives and the time when the stories were written, these lively retellings are an ideal introduction to some of the best-known stories from the Indian classics.