Poetical Vision of the Buddha’s Former Lives: Seventeen Legends from Haribhatta’s Jatakamala (With CD)
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Edition
Ist ed.
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ISBN
9788177421040
Length
viii+232p., 24cm.
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The present book contains the first Indian edition of 17 (out of 34) legends, from the Garland of Birth-Stories (Jatakamala) by the Kashmirian poet Haribhatta who lived not later than 400CE. His composition, written in the prosimetric campu style, is a worthy successor to Aryasura’s Jatakamala. An exemplary representative of the chaste style (vaidarbhi ritih), it enchants the reader by its perfectly lucid Sanskrit, the great variety of metres (29) and ...
