Glimpses of Sanskrit literature

Title page......Page 4
Foreword......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1. Evolution of Sanskrit Literature: A Reapprisal (N. P. Unni)......Page 18
2. The Ādikāvya and the Legacy of Ṛṣi Vālmīki (R. P. Goldman)......Page 28
3. Poetry of the Mahābhārata (Satya Pal Narang)......Page 47
4. Sanskrit Linguistics and Mathematics in Ancient India (Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat)......Page 56
5. Bhāsa and Kālidāsa: The Inseparable Divergence (Shriniwas Rath)......Page 68
6. Prākṛt Poetry: Hāla's Sattasaī (Herman Tieken)......Page 78
7. Classical Sanskrit Prose Literature (Saroja Bhate)......Page 89
8. Public Poetry in Sanskrit (Sheldon Pollock)......Page 102
9. The Major Dramatists (Rajendra Mishra)......Page 125
10. The Development of Aesthetics and Literary Criticism in India (Anthony K. Warder)......Page 141
11. Anthologies, Gnomic Verses and Aphorisms (Sukumari Bhattacharji)......Page 153
12. Give and Take: Sanskrit Poetry in Context (Friedhelm Hardy)......Page 164
13. The Contribution of Kashmir to Sanskrit Literature (Ved Kumari Ghai)......Page 178
14. Some Peripheral Literature: Lexicography and Medicine (Satya Vrat Shastri)......Page 190
15. Contemporary Sanskrit Writing (Radha Vallabh Tripathi)......Page 197
16. Sanskrit Studies Abroad (Arvind Sharma)......Page 204
17 A Treasury of Translations......Page 213
Ṛgveda: To the Dawn......Page 214
Kaṭha Upaniṣad: The One Essential......Page 215
Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: City in Mourning......Page 216
The Sorrow of Arjuna......Page 217
The Vision......Page 219
Karṇabhāram of Bhāsa......Page 220
Śākuntalam of Kālidāsa......Page 227
Pen Pictures from Various Kāvyas......Page 241
Ṛtusamhāra of Kālidāsa: The Pageant of the Seasons......Page 245
The Epigrams of Bhartṛhari......Page 247
Panchatantra......Page 249
Love Poems of Amaru and Bilhaṇa......Page 252
The Anthology of Vidyākara: Seasons......Page 254
Gita Govinda of Jayadeva......Page 256
Verses in the Nine Rasas (Flavours)......Page 258
Appendix 1: Some Sanskrit Educational Institutions in India......Page 264
Appendix 2: Some Indian Publishers of Sanskrit Books......Page 267
Contributors......Page 270
Index......Page 274