Jyotirmaya Sharma

The Ocean of Mirth

Reading Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ Of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya, a Political Satire for All Times

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Produktbeschreibung

The Ocean of Mirth brings together an English translation and an analytical interpretation of a singularly crucial, but obscure, Sanskrit mediaeval text, the H¿sy¿r¿ava-Prahasanä of Jagad¿¿vara Bhä¿¿ch¿rya. The volume will be a major intervention in the discovery of a significant non-canonical text of classical literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 82
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2019
• Englisch, Sanskrit
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780367278274
• ISBN-10: 0367278278
• Artikelnr.: 57783016

Autorenporträt

Jyotirmaya Sharma is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, India. In 2015-16, he was Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. Between January and June 2012 he was a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, and Fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany, in 2012-13. He was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study, RFIEA, between 2013 and 2016. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. 2. A note on the text and translation 3. Names of characters in H
sy
r
ava in order of appearance 4. English translation of H
sy
r
ava-Prahasanä 5. Sanskrit translation of H
sy
r
ava-Prahasanä