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Series X quickly establish itself as the first ever standard reference book on Bengali Theatre outside Bengal. The resource book plays a major role in familiarizing the reader for the first time with Bengali Theatre from a part or parts of the country which even Bengal is not familiar with. A pioneering and comprehensive account and documentation of Bengali stage which flourished chiefly in Delhi with an overview of dramatic efforts in other states of India. It ...
Poet Atula's Musikavamsa is an Epic Poem, Mahakavya, dealing with the History of the Musike dynasty that ruled over the kingdom of Ezhimala known by an alternate name of Kolathunadu. Some of the rulers of the Ezhimala kingdom have come for prominent mention in the Samgham literature of the early centuries of the Christian era. The composer of the Mahakavya does not appear to have drawn any material from the old Tamil literature but has given a mythological ...
Nitisaram actually means the essence of Niti, a word which has got more than one meaning, depending upon the context in which it is used. In one sense it means the proper code of conduct for a human being, what a person is expected to do in different situations and at different stages of life and how he should react with other people-good, bad or indifferent as they may be. A compilation containing more than 120 verses has been in circulation in kerala for the ...
Narayaniyam is undoubtedly the most widely read among the Sanskrit compositions of Kerala origin. In the course of the little over four centuries after its dedication to the Lord of Guruvayur, it appears to have become a highly cherished household possession among the devotees and scholars in Kerala. In this condensed version of the Bhagavata Purana in 100 Dasakas of ten verses or more, the poet is addressing himself directly to the Lord whom he is ...
The Adhyatma Ramayanam is as the title would indicate a spiritual version of the Ramayanam. While Valmiki Ramayanam as an Itihasa was composed with the objectives of giving proper advice on all the four goals of life, Dharma, Arth, kama and Moksa, the Adhyatma version is primarily concerned with the last and final goal. Devotion to the feet of the Supreme Lord in the form of Rama is the surest and easiest means of achieving this objective. To give it a special ...