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Śṛṅgāraprakāśa of Bhoja, Part 2

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$75.00 • £65.95 • €68.95

ISBN 9780674292529

Publication Date: 07/25/2023

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This edition is based on new manuscripts of this important treatise on classical Sanskrit poetics. It was composed by the famous eleventh-century King Bhoja of Malwa (West India), a patron of traditional learning.

The text has never received a complete critical edition. It is important not only because of the theoretical treatment of the erotic sentiment (śṛṅgāra) in classical Sanskrit texts. It is also a mine of quotations from extant and also from lost Sanskrit and Prakrit poetical texts.

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