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Book The Clay Sanskrit Library  Story Collections  Tales  Fables

Download or read book The Clay Sanskrit Library Story Collections Tales Fables written by Clay Sanskrit Library and published by Clay Sanskrit. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure, conquest, romance, comedy, suspense, and tragedy are just a few of the themes woven together by the range of styles represented in this set of classical Sanskrit literature. The set brings together classics like the Aesop’s fables which originated in Vishnu·sharman’s “Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom” with the less traditional, such as the adventures of Dandin’s “What Ten Young Men Did,” written uncharacteristically in prose rather than verse. Included in this set: The Emperor of the Sorcerers Volume 1 By Budha·svamin. Edited and translated by Sir James Mallinson. 452 pages / 978-0-8147-5701-7 The Emperor of the Sorcerers Volume 2 By Budha·svamin. Edited and translated by Sir James Mallinson. 467 pages / 978-0-8147-5707-9 Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom By Vishnu·sharman. Edited and translated by Patrick Olivelle. 562 pages / 978-0-8147-6208-0 “Friendly Advice” by Naráyana & “King Víkrama’s Adventures” Translated by Judit Törzsök. 742 pages / 978-0-8147-8305-4 How Úrvashi Was Won Kali·dasa. Translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman. 300 pages / 978-0-8147-4111-5 The Ocean of the Rivers of Story Volume 1 By Soma·deva. Translated by Sir James Mallinson. 556 pages / 978-0-8147-8816-5 The Ocean of the Rivers of Story Volume 2 By Soma·deva. Translated by Sir James Mallinson. 580 pages / 978-0-8147-9558-3 The Quartet of Causeries By Shúdraka, Shyamílaka, Vara·ruchi, and Íshvara·datta. Edited and translated by Csaba Dezsö and Somadeva Vasudeva. 450 pages / 978-0-8147-1978-7 What Ten Young Men Did By Dandin. Translated by Isabelle Onians. 651 pages / 978-0-8147-6206-6

Book The Clay Sanskrit Library  Poetry

Download or read book The Clay Sanskrit Library Poetry written by Clay Sanskrit Library and published by Clay Sanskrit. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including poetry whose masterful artistry addresses themes such as love, Indian epic and religion with as much aesthetic appeal as thematic, the poetry included in this set contains the poetry of well-known poets such as Vedánta Déshika while giving a voice to the work of other important writers such as Bhanu·datta who have been given less modern attention. Included in this set: Bhatti’s Poem: The Death of Rávana By Bhatti. Translated by Oliver Fallon. 550 pages / 978-0-8147-2778-2 The Birth of Kumára By Kali·dasa. Translated by David Smith. 360 pages / 978-0-8147-4008-8 “Bouquet of Rasa” & “River of Rasa” By Bhanu·datta. Translated by Sheldon I. Pollock. 475 pages / 978-0-8147-6755-9 Love Lyrics By Ámaru and Bhartri·hari. Translated by Greg Bailey. By Bílhana. Edited and translated by Richard F. Gombrich. 327 pages / 978-0-8147-9938-3 Messenger Poems By Kali·dasa, Dhoyi, and Rupa Go·svamin. Edited and translated by Sir James Mallinson. 293 pages / 978-0-8147-5714-7 Princess Kadámbari Volume 1 By Bana. Translated by David Smith. 490 pages / 978-0-8147-4080-4 The Rise of Wisdom Moon Krishna·mishra. Translated by Matthew Kapstein. With a foreword by J. N. Mohanty. 350 pages / 978-0-8147-4838-1 “Self-Surrender,” “Peace,” “Compassion,” and “The Mission of the Goose”: Poems and Prayers from South India Appayya Díkshita, Nilakantha Díkshita, and Vedánta Déshika. Translated by Yigal Bronner and David Shulman. With a foreword by Gieve Patel. 316 pages / 978-0-8147-4110-8 Seven Hundred Elegant Verses By Go·várdhana. Translated by Friedhelm Hardy. 360 pages / 978-0-8147-3687-6

Book Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom

Download or read book Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom written by and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal protagonists. Many of these narratives have traveled across the world, and are known in the West as Aesop’s fables. 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

Book The Complete Clay Sanskrit Library

Download or read book The Complete Clay Sanskrit Library written by Clay Sanskrit Library and published by Clay Sanskrit. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 17500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clay Sanskrit Library, co-published by NYU Press and the JJC Foundation, has been created to introduce classical Sanskrit literature to a wide international readership. This literature combines great beauty, enormous variety and more than three thousand years of continuous history and development. Twenty-eight leading scholars from eight countries cooperated to produce fresh new translations that combine readability and accuracy. The first twelve titles appeared in February 2005, and by 2009 the library was completed with 56 published volumes. The selection includes drama, poetry and novels, together with the famous epics. The Library is now also available as a 56-volume complete set, as well as in six thematic mini-sets, grouped for readers interested in specific areas of the world of classical Sanskrit literature.

Book  Friendly Advice  by N r ya a and  King Vikrama s Adventures

Download or read book Friendly Advice by N r ya a and King Vikrama s Adventures written by Nārāyaṇa and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naráyana’s best-seller gives its reader much more than “Friendly Advice.” In one handy collection—closely related to the world-famous Pañcatantra or Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom —numerous animal fables are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. Tales of canny procuresses compete with those of cunning crows and tigers. An intrusive ass is simply thrashed by his master, but the meddlesome monkey ends up with his testicles crushed. One prince manages to enjoy himself with a merchant’s wife with her husband’s consent, while another is kicked out of paradise by a painted image. This volume also contains the compact version of King Víkrama’s Adventures, thirty-two popular tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne. 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

Book The Hitopadesha

Download or read book The Hitopadesha written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit

Download or read book Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit written by N. D'Anvers and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit By N D'Anvers Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit is a collection of nine delightful Indian stories and fairy tales which are suitable for young and old alike. Included at the end of each chapter is a section of questions which aid in reinforcing the meaning and value of the tales, ensuring their understanding and adding to the enjoyment of reading them. Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit provides an important segment of world literature that has been virtually inaccessible. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Book The Ocean of the Rivers of Story  Volume One

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.

Book The Novel  An Alternative History

Download or read book The Novel An Alternative History written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.

Book The Clay Sanskrit Library  Plays

Download or read book The Clay Sanskrit Library Plays written by Clay Sanskrit Library and published by Clay Sanskrit. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of plays provides an array of Sanskrit drama and satire, with plots that vary from the “strikingly Shakespearian” (as H. H. Wilson described it ) “Little Clay Cart” to a dramatization of and amendment to the “Ramáyana” in “Rama’s Last Act.” In addition to its scope of genre, the set covers a large period of time (the “Three Satires” by Bhállata, Ksheméndra, and Nila·kan alone were written over a period of nearly a thousand years) and also includes several works traditionally given less modern attention, such as “Málavika and Agni·mitra” by Kali·dasa, in order to provide a multifaceted view of Sankskrit theater. Included in this set: “The Lady of the Jewel Necklace” & “The Lady who Shows her Love” By Harsha. Translated by Wendy Doniger. 514 pages / 978-0-8147-1996-1 Little Clay Cart By Shúdraka. Translated by Diwakar Acharya. Foreword by Partha Chatterjee. 640 pages / 978-0-8147-0729-6 Málavika and Agni·mitra Kali·dasa. Translated by Dániel Balogh and Eszter Somogyi. 350 pages / 978-0-8147-8702-1 Rákshasa’s Ring By Vishákha·datta. Translated by Michael Coulson 385 pages / 978-0-8147-1661-8 Rama Beyond Price By Murári. Edited and translated by Judit Törzsök. 638 pages / 978-0-8147-8295-8 Rama’s Last Act By Bhava·bhuti. Translated by Sheldon Pollock. Foreword by Girish Karnad. 458 pages / 978-0-8147-6733-7 The Recognition of Shakúntala (Kashmir Recension) By Kali·dasa. Edited and translated by Somadeva Vasudeva. 419 pages / 978-0-8147-8815-8 Three Satires By Bhállata, Ksheméndra, and Nila·kantha. Edited and translated by Somadeva Vasudeva. 403 pages / 978-0-8147-8814-1

Book Tales from the Kathasaritsagara

Download or read book Tales from the Kathasaritsagara written by SOMADEVA and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kathasaritsagara - the ocean of stories - is among the world's great story collections, truly an ocean that carries the reader on its gentle swell to shores far and near, to places known and imagined, to people familiar and strange. Drawing from earlier collections of tales, the Kathasaritsagara was composed in Sanskrit by Somadeva in eleventh-century Kashmir. In a period and a language still largely dominated by religious texts, the Kathasaritsagara is a breath of fresh air. No set of beliefs dominates, no sacred texts are glorified - what it revels in most is the pulsating carnival of human life and experience. Priests and monks, gamblers and courtesans, kings and bandits, merchants and housewives, talking animals, divine and demonic beings - all cavort through its pages, in cities and forests, across seas and on islands. And in Arshia Sattar's masterful translation, the many universes of adventure the Kathasaritsagara holds within itself come alive for a new generation of readers.

Book    The Ocean of the Rivers of Story    by Somadeva

Download or read book The Ocean of the Rivers of Story by Somadeva written by and published by Clay Sanskrit. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance." —Willis G. Regier, The Chronicle Review "No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience." —The Times Higher Education Supplement "The Clay Sanskrit Library represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot. . . . Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes." —New Criterion "Published in the geek-chic format." —BookForum "Very few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs." —Tricycle ”Now an ambitious new publishing project, the Clay Sanskrit Library brings together leading Sanskrit translators and scholars of Indology from around the world to celebrate in translating the beauty and range of classical Sanskrit literature. . . . Published as smart green hardbacks that are small enough to fit into a jeans pocket, the volumes are meant to satisfy both the scholar and the lay reader. Each volume has a transliteration of the original Sanskrit text on the left-hand page and an English translation on the right, as also a helpful introduction and notes. Alongside definitive translations of the great Indian epics — 30 or so volumes will be devoted to the Maha·bhárat itself — Clay Sanskrit Library makes available to the English-speaking reader many other delights: The earthy verse of Bhartri·hari, the pungent satire of Jayánta Bhatta and the roving narratives of Dandin, among others. All these writers belong properly not just to Indian literature, but to world literature.” —LiveMint ”The Clay Sanskrit Library has recently set out to change the scene by making available well-translated dual-language (English and Sanskrit) editions of popular Sanskritic texts for the public.” —Namarupa The frame narrative in “The Ocean of the Rivers of Story” is so swamped in the flood of stories that it is not until volume two of the CSL edition, 3,000 verses into the text, that Nara·váhana·datta, the protagonist, is born. Shiva has foretold his birth and said that he is a partial incarnation of the god of love and will become the emperor of the sorcerers. From here on the main narrative and many of the tales pouring into it describe the exploits of sorcerers and lovers. This volume ends with the events preceding the birth of Mádana·máñchuka, Nara·váhana·datta’s first and greatest love.

Book Panchatantra Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vishnu Sharma
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-11-26
  • ISBN : 9781973335184
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Panchatantra Stories written by Vishnu Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story. The surviving work is dated to about 300 BCE, but the fables are likely much more ancient. The text's author is unknown, but has been attributed to Vishnu Sharma in some recensions and Vasubhaga in others, both of which may be fictitious pen names. It is likely a Hindu text, and based on older oral traditions with "animal fables that are as old as we are able to imagine".

Book The   Hitopad  sa  books 1 4

    Book Details:
  • Author : Friedrich Max Müller
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781019697412
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Hitopad sa books 1 4 written by Friedrich Max Müller and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hitopadesha is a classical collection of Sanskrit fables, with morals, written for young people. This edition contains the original Sanskrit text along with a translation into English by the renowned scholar, Friedrich Max Müller. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Epitome of Queen Lilavati

Download or read book The Epitome of Queen Lilavati written by Jinaratna and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pro-Jainish tale of anti-violence translated in this handsome bi-lingual (English-Sanskrit) volume.

Book Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit

Download or read book Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit written by S. Mitra and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit is a collection of nine delightful Indian stories and fairy tales which are suitable for young and old alike. Included at the end of each chapter is a section of questions which aid in reinforcing the meaning and value of the tales, ensuring their understanding and adding to the enjoyment of reading them. Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit provides an important segment of world literature that has been virtually inaccessible. CONTENTS. 1. The Magic Pitcher 2. The Story of a Cat, a Mouse, a Lizard and an Owl 3. A Royal Thief-Catcher 4. The Magic Shoes and Staff 5. The Jewelled Arrow 6. The Beetle and the Silken Thread 7. A Crow and His Three Friends 8. A Clever Thief 9. The Hermit's Daughter

Book The Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom

Download or read book The Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom written by Viṣṇuśarman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal protagonists. Many of these narratives have traveled across the world, and are known in the West as Aesop’s fables. 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