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Product details
- ISBN 9780674833401
- Weight: 1996g
- Dimensions: 171 x 260mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 1999
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This edition is based on new manuscripts of this important treatise on classical Sanskrit poetics. It was composed by the famous eleventh-century King Bhoja of Malwa (West India), a patron of traditional learning.
The text has never received a complete critical edition. It is important not only because of the theoretical treatment of the erotic sentiment (śṛṅgāra) in classical Sanskrit texts. It is also a mine of quotations from extant and also from lost Sanskrit and Prakrit poetical texts.
Venkatarama Raghavan is Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Madras.
