The Recognition of Shakntala
Author: Kālidāsa
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2006-11
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 0814788157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A well-known Sanskrit drama presented here in a bilingual translation.
Author: Kālidāsa
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2006-11
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 0814788157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A well-known Sanskrit drama presented here in a bilingual translation.
Author: Kālidāsa
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780670087464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Translated from the Sanskrit and Prakrit.
Author: Kalidasa
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-08-31
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0141908025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kalidasa is the major poet and dramatist of classical Sanskrit literature - a many-sided talent of extraordinary scope and exquisite language. His great poem, Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger), tells of a divine being, punished for failing in his sacred duties with a years' separation from his beloved. A work of subtle emotional nuances, it is a haunting depiction of longing and separation. The play Sakuntala describes the troubled love between a Lady of Nature and King Duhsanta. This beautiful blend of romance and comedy, transports its audience into an enchanted world in which mortals mingle with gods. And Kalidasa's poem Rtusamharam (The Gathering of the Seasons) is an exuberant observation of the sheer variety of the natural world, as it teems with the energies of the great god Siva.
Author: Kalidasa
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9352140540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kalidasa’s most famous play refashions an episode from the Mahabharata, magnificently dramatizing the love story of Shakuntala, a girl of semi-divine origin, and Dushyanta, a noble human king. After their brief and passionate but secret union at her father’s forest ashram, Dushyanta must return to his capital. He gives Shakuntala his signet ring, promising to make her his queen when she joins him later. But, placed unawares under a curse, he forgets her—and she loses the ring that would have enabled him to recognize her. Will the lovers be reunited? The world’s first full-length play centred on a comprehensive love story, The Recognition of Shakuntala is an undisputed classic of the ancient period. Vinay Dharwadker’s sparkling new translation is the definitive poetic rendering of this romantic-heroic comedy for the twenty-first century stage. His absorbing commentary and notes give contemporary readers an unparalleled opportunity to savour the riches of a timeless text.
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999-04-15
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780226156415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled. This text recounts and compares a range of these. The comparisons show that differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture.
Author: Manohar Laxman Varadpande
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9788170174301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M. R. Kale
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 8120802829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Abhijnanasakuntalam is an unparalleled work of the great poet and playwright Kalidasa, the brightest star in the firmament of Indian poetry. No other component of this poet displays more the richness of poetical genius, the warmth and play of fancy, the profound knowledge of the human heart that this masterly production. The present edition is unique in several essentials. The editor has adopted the most popular and appropriate version of the text. He has put the variants in the footnotes. He has added a short Sanskrit commentary, copious notes, an exhaustive introduction and several useful appendices. The English translation of the text is literal as well as idiomatic. It is hoped that this edition will meet the long-felt requirement of university students and the general reader alike.
Author: Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-10-16
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 0199095442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The urban theatre which emerged under Anglo-European and local influences in colonial metropolises such as Calcutta and Bombay around the mid-nineteenth century marked the beginning of the ‘modern period’ in Indian theatre, distinct from classical, postclassical, and more proximate precolonial traditions. A Poetics of Modernity offers a unique selection of original, theoretically significant writings on theatre by playwrights, directors, actors, designers, activists, and policy–makers, to explore the full range of discursive positions that make these urban practitioners ‘modern’. The source-texts represent nine languages, including English, and about one-third of them have been translated into English for the first time; the volume thus retrieves a multilingual archive that so far had remained scattered in print and manuscript sources around the country. A comprehensive introduction by Dharwadker argues for historically precise definitions of theatrical modernity, outlines some of its constitutive features, and connects it to the foundational theoretical principles of urban theatre practice in modern India.
Author: Adithi Rao
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780143330394
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Six unforgettable stories of love and bravery, treachery and injustice, from ancient Indian literature Classical Sanskrit and Tamil writing teem with a myriad characters, and here we meet some truly memorable ones. This collection of six plays, poems and epics retold for children includes ‘Shakuntala’, a heartrending story of the love between the beautiful Shakuntala and King Dushyanta; ‘The Little Clay Cart’, where the evil designs of the king and his family are foiled by the righteous Charudatta and Vasantasena; ‘The Story of an Anklet’, about Kannagi, who wreaks a terrible revenge for the wrong done to her; ‘Manimekalai’, the extraordinary account of a woman’s search for her true calling; ‘The Last Trial of Sita’, in which the playwright gives a whole new ending to the Ramayana, and ‘The Broken Thigh’, about the final, desperate combat between Duryodhana and Bheema on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Accompanied by descriptions of the authors’ lives and the time when the stories were written, these lively retellings are an ideal introduction to some of the best-known stories from the Indian classics.