Sudarshan Kumar Sharma
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Udayasundarikatha is a tale in 8 Ucchvasas describing the events that led to the marriage of Udayasundari, daughter of king of the Nagaloka and Malayavahana, king of Pratithana. Chapter I gives a detailed account of his genealogy and elevated state of his Race. He refers to Shiladitya king of Valabhi.The motif of the pure of Chitrashikha proves his indebtedness to Kadambari of Bana only in its apparent norm but not in its true spirit though autobiographical ...
Yajnaphalam is a very famous drama of great poet Bhasa. In this drama through Rama, Bhasa narrates the quarry of lores as taught by Vasistha. It includes the four Vedas; Vyakarana accompanied by the Samgraha endowed with the significance of the aphorisms (Sutra), the ancient treatise on etymology (Padonirvacana-marsham), Grahacara, Yogashastra of Patanjali, Acara Shastra of the Manavas or of Manu, the Rajadharmashastra of Vasistha ...
Mricchakatika has been and is even now one of the most enchanting dramas in the Sanskrit Literature. It is a brilliant torso of a play written by the great Dramatist Shudraka in the full maturitys of his powers. This play is full of spiritedness, humour and ebullience.Mricchakatika- A critical and cultural study has been done taking into account the critical study of Dr. G.V. Devasthali and introduction to Mricchakatika by M. R. Kale, R.D. Karmarkar, Dr. R.S. ...
The Brhatkatha Sloka Samgraha of Buddhasvamin considered to be one of the Sanskrit redaction of the Brhatkatha of Gunadhya in Cantos 28 displays altogether a different norm of descriptive delineation as compound to the contents of the other two versions e.g. Brhatkathamanjari of the prolific writer Ksemendra and Somadeva's Kathasarit Sagara both having eighteen Lambakas subdivided into gucchas and tarangas respectively. The poem begins with an encomium of ...
Sri Bhojadeva was first and foremost a man of great learning, a versatile scholar, a polymath indeed, for he has been credited with works in almost every branch of knowledge. According to Ajada who wrtote a commentary named Padakaprakasa on Sarasvati Kanthabharana, Bhoja wrote 84 works giving them names with his own titles and binds. Of the various works ascribed to him, Samarangana Sutradhara is a voluminous treatise, an architectural masterpiece, dealing with ...
The Brhatkatha Sloka Samgraha of Buddhasvamin considered to be one of the Sanskrit redactionso f the Brhatkatha of Gunadhya in Cantos 28 displays altogether a different norm of descriptive delineation as compound to the contents of the other two versions e.g. Brhatkathamanjari of the prolific writer Ksemendra and Somadeva's Kathasarit Sagara both having eighteen Lambakas subdivided into gucchas and tarangas respectively. The Poem begins with an ...
Mandaramanjari of Vishveshvara Pandeya, author of Aryasaptashati and many other works on Alankarashastra is only in Purvabhaga, the Uttarabhaga said to have been written by his son not traceable.According to Dr. V.V. Bhatta, Mandaramanjari like Kadambari deals with the two Romances of Puspupura King Citrabhanu son of Rajashekhara and Malaykavati and Mandaramanjari on the one hand and of the Demon Manasaketu and Madayantika like Bana’s Candriapida and ...
A person who has learnt the Vedas and the Upanishads, but has not bothered to study the Puranas, can never be wise. The knowledge of the Puranas supplements that of the Vedas and the Upanisads. As such, the Puranas contain many stories and history. There is no race on earth that does not have its own history. But the immense volume of the Puranas is unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. The Vayu Purana itself states that the Puranas were originally recited by ...