Download or read book A History of the Classical Sanskrit Literature written by M. Krishnamacharya and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tales of The Ten Princes written by Dandin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dandin's work as a novelist, poet and pioneering theorist of literary style has secured for him an important place in classical Sanskrit literature. He lived in Kanchi, near present-day Chennai, in the period c. AD 650?750, during the Pallava rule. The Dasa Kumara Charitam is a prose romance recounting the exploits of Prince Rajavahana and his nine companions. Its colourful tales of adventure are notable for their ironic humour, amoral outlook and uninhibited descriptions of contemporary life and manners. A remarkable feature of the stories is the geographical sweep of their action, ranging from present-day Punjab to Kerala, Gujarat to Assam and all the way to the islands of the Indian Ocean. Also remarkable is the rich variety of characters and situations. Dandin vivifies each personage, major and minor, and provides lively accounts of assassinations, executions, dance festivals and royal assemblies, describes at length the training of a courtesan, and even the tools for burgling a house. Even though Tales of the Ten Princes can be enjoyed for its absorbing stories alone, it is also a wonderfully detailed sociological account of an important age in ancient India.

Download or read book Despatches to England written by Madras (India : Presidency) and published by . This book was released on 1736 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kundamala of Dinnaga written by Diṅnāga and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1983 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ramayana written by Valmiki and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rama, the crown prince of the City of Ayodhya, is a model son and warrior. He is sent by his father the king to rescue a sage from persecution by demons, but must first kill a fearsome ogress. That done, he drives out the demons, restores peace, and attends a tournament in the neighboring city of Mithila; here he bends the bow that no other warrior can handle, winning the prize and the hand of Sita, the princess of Mithila.Valm'ki's Ramßyana is one of the two great national epics of India, the source revered throughout South Asia as the original account of the career of Rama, ideal man and incarnation of the great god Vishnu. The first book, "Boyhood," introduces the young hero Rama and sets the scene for the adventures ahead. It begins with a fascinating excursus on the origins and function of poetry itself.For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org

Download or read book Despatches to England from Fort St George V 1 18 1694 1751 written by East India Company. Public Department and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Heavenly Exploits written by New York University Press and published by NYU Press. This book was released on with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Emperor of the Sorcerers written by Budhasvāmin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the tale of prince Narávahana-datta, taking him from royal palaces to flying sorcerers' mountain fastnesses via courtesans' bedrooms and merchant ships. Along the way, he accumulates 26 wives.

Download or read book The Lady of the Jewel Necklace The Lady who Shows her Love written by Harsha and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Harsha, who reigned over the kingdom of Kanauj from 606 to 647 CE, composed two Sanskrit plays about the mythical figures of King Udayana, his queen, Vásava·datta, and two of his co-wives. The plays abound in mistaken identities, both political and erotic. The characters masquerade as one another and, occasionally, as themselves, and each play refers simultaneously to itself and to the other. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org

Download or read book Ha sad ta written by James Mallinson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Numerous more followed, including the third in the CSL selection, the sixteenth-century "Swan Messenger," composed also in Bengal by Rupa Go svamin, a devotee of Krishna. Here romantic and religious love combine in a poem that shines with the intensity of love for the god Krishna."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Ocean of the Rivers of Story Volume One written by Somadeva Bhaṭṭa and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of Soma·deva's eleventh-century Ocean of the Rivers of Stories is no boast: in more than 20,000 verses it tells more than 250 tales. The reader has only to enjoy being swept away in the flood of stories, said to spring from that source of so much classical Indian literature, "The Long Story"--Publisher description.

Download or read book The Glorious Deeds of Purna written by Joel Tatelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By providing an annotated translation of, and applying the methods of literary criticism to, a first-century account of the life of the saint Purna, this study introduces the reader to the richness and complexity of an essential Buddhist genre.

Download or read book Ausonius written by Decimus Magnus Ausonius and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handsome Nanda written by and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanda has it all: youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfills his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for an older brother. When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha's order of monks, he is forced to confront his all-too-human enslavement to his erotic and romantic desires. Dating from the second century CE, Ashva·ghosha’s Handsome Nanda portrays its hero’s spiritual makeover with compassion, psychological profundity, and great poetic skill. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org

Download or read book Gita Govinda written by Jayadeva and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jayadeva’s Gitagovínda is a lyrical account of the illicit springtime love affair of Krishna and Radha, a god and goddess manifesting on earth as a cowherd and milkmaid for the sake of relishing the sweet miseries and rapturous delights of erotic love. The narrative framing their bucolic songs was composed under royal patronage in northeastern India in the twelfth century. It was to be performed for connoisseurs of poetry and the erotic arts, for aesthetes and voluptuaries who, while sensually engaged, were at the same time devoted to Krishna as Lord of the Universe. The text at once celebrates the vicissitudes of carnal love and the transports of religious devotion, merging and reconciling those realms of emotion and experience. Erotic and religious sensibilities serve, and are served by, the pleasures of poetry. In the centuries following its composition, the courtly text became a vastly popular inspirational hymnal. Jayadeva's songs continue to be sung throughout India in fervent devotional adoration of Krishna.