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... and of deep relevance to Akbar’s imperial and political ambitions. I pursue my analysis of the Mughal Mahabharata in two sections, focusing first on the work’s Sanskrit sources and then on the translation practices one finds evidenced in the Persian text. In the first section, I outline how the Mughal...

...Brian A. Hatcher © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Indigent Brahmans, Industrious Pandits: Bourgeois Ideology and Sanskrit Pandits in Colonial Calcutta Brian A. Hatcher Introduction...

...Audrey Truschke Abstract Siddhicandra's Bhanucandraganicarita ( Biography of Bhanucandra , ca. 1620s) enacts a stunning development in Sanskrit historiography. The text's title bills it as a biography of a Jain mendicant, a standard genre of Jain-authored works. But, in fact, the text treats cross...

...Jesse Ross Knutson Knutson’s essay examines contemporary accounts in Sanskrit verse of the conquered territories of King Laksmanasena of Bengal (c. late twelfth/early thirteenth century), situating their false claims in a larger history of petty kings’ competing false claims about themselves...

..., the Sangitadarpana (“Mirror of Music”) of Harivallabha (ca. 1653). Harivallabha was translating a recent Sanskrit work of the same name: an old-fashioned treatise that nonetheless proved extremely influential in Persian and other Sanskrit works, as well as in miniature painting. This article examines...

... Katerina Clark’s observations on the Soviet socialist-realist novel, and building on the adaptation’s intertextual references to older Javanese and Sanskrit epic traditions, Lienau’s essay argues that Pramoedya’s work posits the generic superiority of the Indonesian-Malay novel to the linguistic caste...

...Geetanjali Srikantan Abstract It has been well documented that the marriage, inheritance, and succession laws of Hindus as a religious community in India are a product of British colonial intervention and engagement with Sanskritic legal traditions. However, what has been relatively ignored...

...Rebecca Gould This essay aims at a methodological interpretation of Sheldon Pollock's oeuvre from the perspective of comparative literary history. Part 1 focuses on his recent magnum opus, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men . Part 2 compares the Sanskrit cosmopolis in Pollock's...

..., and it is borne through a particular relationship to temporality. It draws this claim from three sources across Mīrājī’s literary corpus: his essay titled “About my Poems” (“Apnī Naẓmon Ke Bāre Men”); his literary critical essay on Sanskrit philosophers of aesthetics titled “Theories on Rasa” (“Ras Ke Naz̤ariye...

... poems tend to share: a resistance to the laws of time. In order to illustrate what this resistance to time amounts to, the article begins with a reading of the Caurapañcāśikā ( The Thief's Fifty ), an exemplary collection of Sanskrit lyrics attributed to the eleventh-century poet Bilhaṇa...

... the past, which encodes a historicization of its own present. In the Rājataraṅgiṇī the Sanskrit tradition reckons with both itself and something far beyond, ultimately coming to terms with its own materiality. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Kalhaṇa Rājataraṇgiṇī kāvya Sanskrit...

... in a Sanskrit worldview, Hindi intellectuals exhibited newness in their theorization of the art of poetic craft. Engaging with Busch's work on the ritigranth genre, this article demonstrates how the poet-scholars of Rajasthan who were experts in Brajbhasha and Marwari—or Hindi and Rajasthani, respectively...

... for any book concerned with Sanskrit literary and cultural production to attract serious, sus- tained interest outside of the world of South Asian studies. Sheldon Pollock’s masterful and far-­ranging study has done so to a greater degree than any such work in many years...

... of the core disciplines of Indian scholarship before A definition of “the anxious”! the advent of colonialism and a cultural space long mo- Kesavdas says that “the anxious” is a woman whose nopolized by Sanskrit intellectuals, emerged as a fertile lover doesn’t show up for some reason, causing her site...

...A. R. Venkatachalapathy © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Coining Words: Language and Politics in Late Colonial Tamilnadu A. R. Venkatachalapathy Forming words with Sanskrit roots will certainly ruin under the distinguished headship...

... at the outset, his book is “an attempt to understand two great moments Africa of transformation in culture and power in premodern India” (1). The first is when Sanskrit, Asia,   the “language of the gods,” dramatically breaks out of its...

... a sion and films give, by default, certain impermeability to bhasha, the current speech, distinguished from Sanskrit or large sections of the masses. Thus, by its constitution and Persian, natural, un-selfconscious, anonymous, speech. The monopolistic propagation, the standard appropriates the lan...

... is responsible for Studies a Persian translation of a Sanskrit work on mathematics, the Lilavati. He was, in short, a lead-   and ing intellectual representative of the cosmopolitan tendencies of the Mogul Empire. Fayzi...

... language of Sanskrit was actually heteroglot” literary communities should be approached made in the late seventeenth century. I shall examine the by looking at “an entire literary area with its multiple © Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 24:2 (2004...