Indian Kavya Literature is planned in eight volumes as a comprehensive study of literature (kavya) in the literary criticism of that same tradition. Surprising as it may seem, Indian literature has not till now been presented from this obvious, natural...

Where Kavya flourished, performance in the streets and in theatres also flourished. So theatre in Andhra and everywhere to the south, also in Orissa, Mithila and Nepala, flourished in the 14 plus. In Andhra Rudra's Yayaticarita is the earliest extant...

Book Summary of Indian Kavya Literature (Vol. VII In 2 Pts. ) The Wheel Of Time The work begins with a discussion of the purpose of Philosophy or Darsana, which is basically to promote rational belief and action, criticise errors...

The book comprises of two parts, part I deals with the socio-historical aspects of family of the Vedic Seer Bharadvaja and part II discusses the significant contribution the family has made to the various fields of Indian culture. Part I...

Siddhanta Kaumudi is a critical and scholarly commentary on the sutras of Panini by Bhattoji Diksita, a stalwart grammarian of the Panini system who flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century. The Sutras are arranged topic-wise and fully...

The Kiratarjuniyam of Bharavi: Cantos I-III (Text, Eng. Tr. & Introd.): Text with Mallinatha's commentary, Prose order of the Slokas, Notes, Translation into English and Hindi by M.R. Kale.The Kiratarjuniya is a Mahakavya and is named after its chief incident,...

Valmiki the poet and the author of Valmiki-Ramayana, most unlikely used irregularities, more often than just sporadically, it is not concerned generally with what is grammatically correct. To present here the same is the main aim of this study that...

This is a literary classic biography of the Jain world. All Aspects of Jain religious order are depicted in this illustrious book. Sixty three stories of Tirthankar, Chakravarti, Baldev, Vasudev and Prativasudev are described with their previous births.

Volume-III in this series presents some of the most celebrated classical writers of India, including Sudraka, Visnusarman, Kalidasa, Pravarasena, Amaruka, Bharavi, Subandhu and Visakhadatta. A new analysis and appreciation of their poetry, drama and fiction is offered, in the light...

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The word 'philosophy' as well as the conjuring expression 'Indian philosophy' has meant different things to different people-endeavours and activities, old and new, grave and frivolous, edifying and banal, esoteric and exoteric. In this book, the author has chosen deliberately...

The Uttararamacarita occupies a very high place in the dramatic literature of the Hindus and it is accepted by common consent as a masterpiece of the author. Bhavabhuti appears to have possessed all the requisites of the true dramatist and...