Mahabharata & Modern Scholarship: An Interview With Dr. Vishwa Adluri
Mahabharata is one of the foundational texts of Indian civilization. Along with Ramayana, it has transformed high abstract philosophies of the Upanishads into an aesthetically appealing literary work which has touched More...
Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – IV
[contextly_sidebar id=”H1x0rp19rLprsjuRRM1xCAFFYdUAGCaO”] The Divine Body of Metaphors It is reasonable to conclude that SL constitutes three bodies of the goddess: the first section identified as Ānandalaharī More...
Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – III
[contextly_sidebar id=”kwSt9Pu0PMI18jdO309HsleD3iLdG6z4″] Verse 51: śive śṛṅgārārdrā taditarajane kutsanaparā | saroṣā gaṅgāyāṃ giriśacarite vismayavatī || harāhibhyo bhītā sarasiruhasaubhāgyajayinī47 More...
Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – II
[contextly_sidebar id=”wkUsDiEsW7zkITf4D7gdG0xz3IjbueDA”] Encountering the Divine Body of Bliss The significance and centrality of the divine body in SL is vivid, particularly in the second part, where More...
Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – I
Abstract Saundaryalaharī is a classical Sanskrit text in one hundred stanzas dedicated to the goddess Tripurasundarī. The central argument of this paper is that this devotional hymn – a textual body comprised More...
Book Review- ‘Sur’s Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition’ By John Stratton Howley
“Sur’s Ocean: Poems from the Early Tradition” is a volume in the controversial series Murty Classical Library of India. This translation of Sūradās’s great Hindi volume ‘Sūrasāgara’ from the More...