Author: BāṇaPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814795587
Category : Princesses
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
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Princess Kadambari
Author: BāṇaPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814795587
Category : Princesses
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
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Kadambari
Author: BanaPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184752474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Bana is among the three most important prose writers in classical Sanskrit, all of whom lived in the late sixth and early seventh centuries AD. It is clear, from his writings, that his mind was amazingly modern, humane and sensitive, especially for the seventh-century India in which he lived. Bana had a healthy irreverence towards many of the established orthodoxies of his time and his strength lies in his skill as a storyteller and as a creator of characters vibrant with life and individuality. Kadambari is a lyrical prose romance that narrates the love story of Kadambari, a Gandharva princess, and Chandrapida, a prince who is eventually revealed to be the moon god. Acclaimed as a great literary work, it is replete with eloquent descriptions of palaces, forests, mountains, gardens, sunrises and sunsets and love in separation and fulfillment. Featuring an intriguing parrot-narrator, the story progresses as a delightful romantic thriller played out in the magical realms between this world and the other, in which the earthly and the divine blend in idyllic splendour.
The Novel: An Alternative History
Author: Steven MoorePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441133364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
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.
“The” Kadambari of Bana
Author: C. M. RiddingA Literal English Translation of Bāṇa's Kādambarī
Author: BāṇabhaṭṭaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romances, English
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Kādambarī of Bāna
Author: BāṇaJapan, China, Egypt
Author: Charles Herbert SylvesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Best Stories from Indian Classics
Author: V.S. NaravanePublisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 8174368973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In this selection of stories from the classics of Sanskrit fiction, Professor Naravane offers fascinating glimpses of life in ancient India. Retold in modern English and presented in a lively, fluent style, those stories are marked by an amazing diversity of atmosphere, situation, attitudes and characterization. They reveal the centuries, and convey the unique, distinctive flavour of Indian life and culture.
Mahabharata Book Twelve (Volume 3)
Author: Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814795420
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The Book of Liberation is perhaps the most enigmatic philosophical text from ancient India. Presented as the teachings of Bhishma as he lies dying on the battlefield, after the epic war between the Pándavas and Káuravas, it was composed by unknown authors in the last centuries BCE, during the early period of world-renunciation, when peripatetic sages meditated under trees and practiced austerities in forest groves, and wandering sophists debated in the towns and cities. There has been no time like it before or since: such freedom of thought and expression is unparalleled in the history of the world. The freedom enjoyed by these ancient thinkers was not an end in itself. Above all this animated work is the record of philosophers seeking liberation (moksha) from a world they believed unsatisfactory. The speculation herein is but a means to an end, for its authors believed they could attain freedom from the world by knowing philosophical truths.
Mahabharata Book Seven (Volume 2)
Author: Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479813834
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
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.