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Brahmins and Kings: Royal Counsel in the Sanskrit Narrative Literatures

By John Nemec
Hardcover
$140.00
By John Nemec
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Brahmins and Kings examines some of the most well-known and widely circulated narratives in the history of Sanskrit literature, including the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa, Viṣṇuśarman's famed animal stories (the Pañcatantra), Somadeva's labyrinthine Ocean of Rivers of Stories (the Kathāsaritsāgara), Kalhaṇa's Chronicle of the Kings of Kashmir (the Rājataraṅgiṇī), and two of the most famous plays in the history of Sanskrit literature, Kālidāsa's Abhijñānaśākuntala and Harṣa's Ratnāvalī. Offerin...

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