Seven Hundred Elegant Verses
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Seven Hundred Elegant Verses
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Author : Govardhana
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2017-12-01
Seven Hundred Elegant Verses written by Govardhana and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with Literary Collections categories.
When Go·várdhana composed his "Seven Hundred Elegant Verses" in Sanskrit in the twelfth century CE, the title suggested that this was a response to the 700 verses in the more demotic Prakrit language traditionally attributed to King Hala, composed almost a thousand years earlier. Both sets of poems were composed in the arya metre. Besides being the name of a metre, in Sanskrit arya means a noble or elegant lady, and Go·várdhana wished to reflect and appeal to a sophisticated culture. These poems each consist of a single stanza, almost as condensed and allusive as a Japanese haiku. They cover the gamut of human life and emotion, though the favorite topic is love in all its aspects. 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
Mahabharata Book Seven Volume 2
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2017-04-01
Mahabharata Book Seven Volume 2 written by and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Volume Two of "Drona" begins in the aftermath of tragedy. As evening falls, Arjuna journeys wearily back to camp and is greeted by the ashen faces of his brothers. Before they speak, he guesses the worst. And the worst is right: his son Abhimanyu is dead. Arjuna is inconsolable. Insensible with rage, he vows to take revenge on the boy’s killers. He swears that if they are not dead before another day passes, he will set himself alight. The world seems to shudder at his words.
Language Of The Snakes
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Author : Andrew Ollett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Language Of The Snakes written by Andrew Ollett and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Foreign Language Study categories.
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.
Mah Bh Rata
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2008-05
Mah Bh Rata written by and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05 with Religion categories.
In India's great epic Maha·bhárata, the eighth book, “Karna,”; recounts the events that occurred during the mighty hero Karna's two days as general of the Káurava army. This second volume resumes on the war's seventeenth and penultimate day. This will be a momentous day for the Bhárata clans and especially for a number of their most distinguished heroes, with some of the epic's most telegraphed events reaching their climax. Not only will the epic's most anticipated duel between its greatest champions Árjuna and Karna be played out to its cruel and tragic end, but one of the more gruesome episodes in the epic will also take place with Duhshásana meeting the fate that has long awaited him since his brazen mistreatment of Dráupadi in the assembly hall. 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
Mahabharata Book Five
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2008-05
Mahabharata Book Five written by and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05 with Religion categories.
The Pándavas believe they have completed the terms of their exile, though Duryódhana claims that they did not live unknown for the full thirteenth year, since Árjuna was recognized in the battle at the end of the preceding book, Viráta. While the Pándavas and Kurus make their preparations for war they organize a series of embassies to negotiate peace. This volume constantly highlights the inevitability of conflict and the futility of negotiation. Most characters are concerned that war between family cannot fail to be sinful. Contained herein is the “Sanat·sujatíya,” a philosophical passage to rival the “Bhagavad·gita.” Like the “Bhagavad·gita,” the “Sanat·sujatíya” tells that karma will not chain one in the cycle of rebirth, if one refrains from desire. Through understanding the truth of non-duality, that the world is mere illusion, one is subsumed into eternal existence with Brahman. 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
Mahabharata Books Ten And Eleven
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2017-04-01
Mahabharata Books Ten And Eleven written by and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-01 with Literary Collections categories.
The great war of the Maha bharata is over. Or is it? This is a single extended family wracked in conflict. Both sides succumbed to treachery. Ashva tthaman, the young leader of the three survivors on the losing side, is incensed at his father’s murder. He returns after dark to the now sleeping encampment. The sacrifice of the unsuspecting champions, the "Dead of Night," ensues. The five sons of Pandu have escaped. After a final confrontation, a missile crisis, Ashva tthaman concedes defeat but redirects his missile into the wombs of the victors’ women. They miscarry, and cannot hope for more children. Now the survivors, victors and vanquished, must struggle to comprehend their loss. "The Women" of both sides are confronted by their men’s mangled corpses in a masterpiece of horror and pathos. But their potent curses must be curbed to usher in a new era. Maha bharata Books Ten and Eleven give voice to the vanquished, to the psychology of loss and the conflicting desires for understanding and revenge.
Garland Of The Buddha S Past Lives Volume 2
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Author : Aryashura,
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2017-04-01
Garland Of The Buddha S Past Lives Volume 2 written by Aryashura, and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-01 with Literary Collections categories.
In this second volume of the Garland of Past Lives, Aryashura applies his elegant literary skill toward composing fourteen further stories that depict the Buddha’s quest for enlightenment in his former lives. Here the perfection of forbearance becomes the dominant theme, as the future Buddha suffers mutilations from the wicked and sacrifices himself for those he seeks to save. Friendship, too, takes on central significance, with greed leading to treachery and enemies transformed into friends through the transformative effect of the future Buddha’s miraculous virtue. The setting for many such moral feats is the forest. Portrayed as home for the future Buddha in his lives as an animal or ascetic, the peaceful harmony of this idyllic realm is often violently interrupted by intrusions from human society. Only the future Buddha can resolve the ensuing conflict, influencing even kings, in the stories but also throughout Asian history, to express wonder and devotion at the startling demonstrations of virtue they encounter.
Mahabharata Book Six Volume 2
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2017-04-01
Mahabharata Book Six Volume 2 written by and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-01 with Literary Collections categories.
This second half of Bhishma describes the events from the beginning of the fifth day till the end of the tenth of the great battle between the Káuravas and the Pándavas. Despite grandfather Bhishma’s appeal to conclude peace with the Pándavas, Duryódhana continues the bloody battle. The key strategist is general Bhishma, commander of the Káurava forces. Even though he is compelled to fight on the side of the Káuravas, Bhishma’s sympathies are with the Pándavas. After the ninth day of war, when Bhishma has wreaked havoc with their troops, the Pándavas realise that they will be unable to win as long as invincible Bhishma is alive. Bhishma willingly reveals to them how he can be destroyed. Strictly observing the warrior code, he will never fight with Shikhándin, because he was originally born a woman. Bhishma advises the Pándava brothers that Árjuna should strike him from behind Shikhándin’s back, and they follow the grandfather’s advice.
The Rise Of Wisdom Moon
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Author : Krishna mishra
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2016-10-01
The Rise Of Wisdom Moon written by Krishna mishra and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-01 with Literary Collections categories.
The Rise of Wisdom Moon was composed during the mid-eleventh century by Krishna mishra, an otherwise unknown poet in the service of the Chandella dynasty, whose cultural and religious capital was Khajuraho. The early popularity of Krishna mishra’s work led to its frequent translation into the vernaculars of both North and South India, and even Persian as well. Famed as providing the enduring model of the allegorical play for all subsequent Sanskrit literature, The Rise of Wisdom Moon offers a satirical account of the conquest of the holy city of Benares by Nescience, of the war of liberation waged by the forces of Intuition, and of the freedom of the Inner Man that then follows the rise of Wisdom. But at the outset, when Nescience still has the upper hand, with minions like Lord Lust, such developments seem unlikely.
The Quartet Of Causeries
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Author : Shyamilaka
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2009-08
The Quartet Of Causeries written by Shyamilaka and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08 with Drama categories.
The Four Soliloquies have been handed down as a collection of the most ancient monologue farces in classical Sanskrit.