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Composed by one of the foremost Sanskrit poets and scholars of the earlier part of the 20 Cen. Pandit Nityananda Shastri, the Mahakavya delineates the life story of Lord Rama which he conceives as the ocean, the Udadhi, in fourteen cantos, the figure corresponding to the number of the jewels, the ratnas come out of it when churned. The figure also is reminiscent of the number of years of exile of the Lord. The Mahakavya is composed in the age-old Citrakavya style ...
A prolific writer, Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri, has enriched Sanskrit and Indological literature with a number of his research studies. Apart from books, he has published a sizeable number of articles in journals and commemoration and felicitation volumes. It was thought desirable to bring out a compendium of them. Also thought desirable was to bring to light a big corpus of his writings which are still in manuscript. The research material presented here is vast I ...