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Abhijnana Sakuntalam- A Sanskrit Drama By Kalidasa (Papercover)

    • Abhijnana Sakuntalam- A Sanskrit Drama By Kalidasa (Papercover)

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    Abhijnana Sakuntalam- A Sanskrit Drama By Kalidasa: The Devanagari Recension of the Text with English Translation, Critical and Explanatory Notes By Monier Williams
     
    Abhijnanasäkuntalam is an unparalleled work of the great poet and dramatist Kālidāsa. This popular play (Nātika) deals with the love and marriage of King Duşyanta Śakuntalā. and the Asrama girl.
    This critical edition contains the English translation of Prof. Monier Williams, an eminent scholar of Sanskrit and Indology. The English translation and Notes have been revised and the texts have also been thoroughly checked. Therefore, it is hoped that this New Revised Edition will be more helpful to English-knowing students as well as other students of Sanskrit literature.
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    • PRODUCT INFO

      AUTHOR N.C. PANDA
      PUBLISHER BHARATIYA KALA PRAKASHAN
      LANGUAGE SANSKRIT AND ENGLISH
      EDITION 1st
      ISBN 978818090
      PAGES 346
      COVER PAPERCOVER
      OTHER DETAILS 8.75 X 5.75 INCH
      WEIGHT 570 GM
      YEAR                        2010                                                        

      COUNTRY OF      

      ORIGIN 

      		 INDIA                                                     

    • AUTHOR INFO

       The Great Poet and Dramatist Kālidāsa

    • EDITOR INFO

      Dr. N.C. Panda

      Vishveshvaranand Vishvabandhu Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies, Panjab University, Hoshiarpur, is well-known in the field of Indological Research and combines in him a comprehensive understanding of scholarly issues, impartial judgment, and an exemplary clarity of expression.

      After graduation from Utkal University and Post-graduation and Phil. Degrees from Kurukshetra University, he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Vedic Studies from Panjab University, Chandigarh. In addition to these Dr Panda is also qualified in other Indological branches like Buddhism (Acharya), Kashmir Saivism (M.Phil.), Indian Philosophy (Acharya), Ayurveda Ratna, and C.C. in German.

      Dr. Panda is the Joint Editor of Vishveshvaranand Indological Research Journal. As an ardent student and a successful researcher of Indology, he has contributed numerous learned Research papers and written and edited some valuable works, viz. :

      1. Perspectives of Indian Thought, 2. Upadeśasahasri (Revised & Edited), 3. Buddhism (Text with Eng. tr. in two Vols. Compiled & Ed.), 4. Kalätattvakośa Lexicon, Vol. VI (Ed.), 5. Samkhyakärikä (Ed.), 6. Aspects of the Vedanta (Ed.).

    • TRANSLATED BY

      Prof. Monier Williams,

    • PREFACE

      This is a valuable addition to Abhijñānasäkuntalam. The English translation and Notes have been thoroughly revised in this edition. Therefore, it is hoped that this new revised critical edition will be found more helpful by those for whom it is intended. Especially the English-knowing students must be benefitted from this authentic revised edition.

      I sincerely thank all those learned editors whose works I have duly consulted in preparation for this revised edition. Dr. K.L. Parashar has written the foreword to this book in Sanskrit. So, I am very much thankful to him for this great job.

      I feel it an honor to dedicate this book to Prof. H.K. Satapathy a great Sanskrit scholar, a poet, a researcher, and a man of inspiring attitude. I have no words to express my sincere feelings of gratefulness to Prof. Raghbir Singh, Chairman, V.V.B.IS. & I.S., P.U., Hoshiarpur, for his affectionate attitude and constant encouragement. I also owe sincere thanks and gratitude to Prof. Indra Dutt Uniyal, Prof. B.B. Chaubey, Prof. Shuk Dev Sharma, Prof. Vikram Kumar, Prof. Surendra Mohan Mishra, Prof. Gopabandhu Mishra, Prof. Rajinder Kumar Sharma, Prof. Prem Lal Sharma, and Prof. Krishna Murari Sharma for their invaluable suggestions and overall help and support, whenever I needed. I am extending my special thanks to my wife Mrs. Sharadhanjali Panda for her utmost co-operation and constant encouragement.

    • INTRODUCTION

      Kalidasa is unanimously recognized as an eminent Sanskrit poet and dramatist of India. There is scarcely any Indian literature in which we do not find adaptations of stories of Kalidasa's works. So, in India scholars from all parts from Kashmir in the North to Chennai in the South and from Gujarat in the West to Bengal in the East have tried to solve the different problems presented by his date, life, and works. Though several scholars have written about the great poet, the problems of his date, place, life, and works are still unsolved. Scholars of India and Abroad have expressed various conflicting views about his life and work.

      Regarding the date and place of Kälidäsa Monier Williams writes: "This work is by the illustrious Kalidāsa, who is supposed by some native authorities (though on insufficient grounds) to have lived in Ujjayini, the capital of king Vikramaditya, whose reign in the starting point of Hindu era called Samvat, beginning 57 years B.C. Kälidāsa is described as one of the 'nine gems' of that monarch's splendid court. It seems, however more probable that Kalidasa flourished in the third century of the Christian era". Prof. A.B. Keith, an eminent scholar writes: "Kālidāsa was later than Asvaghosa and than the dramatist Bhasa; he knows Greek terms as his use of Jamitra proves; the Prakrit of his dramas is decidedly later than Asvaghosa's and Bhasa's and he cannot be put before the Gupta age.....We must remember that Chandragupta II had the style of Vikramaditya, whose name tradition consistently connects Kālidāsa."

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