A portion of it is the well-known Kena- (or Talavakara-) upanishad,' on the nature of Brahma, as the supreme of deities. If the Samaveda has thus its ample share of Brahmana-literature, though in part of a somewhat questionable character, it is not less richly supplied with sutra-...
while Sanskrit Vartman Patram and Vishwasya Vrittantam were started in Gujarat over the last five years.Since 1974, there has been a short daily news broadcast on state-run All India Radio.These broadcast
It is said; the true nature of the Supreme Goddess is beyond mind and matter. She is limitless and formless. She isArupa. But, when She takes a form, theBinduis her intense representation. TheBindusymbolizes Her most subtle micro form as the Universal Mother, womb, yoni, creator, retainer...
With the advanced nature of the Sanskrit language and alphabet, some feel that, like the traditional source of the Vedas, Sanskrit was given by Divinity to humanity. It could not have been developed by the slow process of a human agency. After all, in the time period in which Sanskrit app...
A Criti-cal Study of the Manuscripts of Selected Commentaries on the Kirātārjunīya, an Epic Poem in Sanskrit. PhD dissertation, University of Hamburg. Krishnamacharya, V. (1947), Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Adyar Li-brary. Vol. VI Grammar, Prosody and Lexicography. ...
This text is the longest narrative poem of the Caṅkam literature. It was authored by the poet Māṅkuṭi Marutaṉ to advise the Pāṇṭiya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ, who was the victor of the battle at Talaiyālaṅkāṉam. It narrates all that goes on over a whole...
“century”): theShringara(love)-shataka,Niti(ethics and polity)-shataka, andVairagya(dispassion)-shataka. Most schoalars are confident only that the first is his. Another work sometimes attributed to Bhartrihari, theBhattikavya(“Poem of Bhatti”), performs linguistic gymnastics to demonstrate...
epic, long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds, although theterm has also been loosely used to describe novels, such asLeo Tolstoy’sWar and Peace, and motion pictures, such asSergey Eisenstein’sIvan the Terrible. In literary usage, the termencompassesboth oral and writtencompositions. The prim...
As in all of Kalidasa’s works, the beauty of nature is depicted with a precise elegance of metaphor that would be difficult to match in any of the world’s literatures. The second drama, Vikramorvashi (possibly a pun on vikramaditya), tells a legend as old as the Vedas (earliest ...