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| Genre/Form: | Biographie Quelle Poetry |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Gautama Buddha; Aśvaghoṣa.; Buddha. |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Aśvaghoṣa.; Patrick Olivelle |
| ISBN: | 9780814762165 0814762166 |
| OCLC Number: | 144598225 |
| Language Note: | In English and Sanskrit |
| Notes: | Poems. |
| Description: | lv, 497 p. ; 17 cm. |
| Contents: | The Birth of the Lord -- Life in the Ladies' Chambers -- Becoming Dejected -- Rebuffing the Women -- The Departure -- Chándaka is Sent Back -- Entering the Ascetic Grove -- Lamenting in the Seraglio -- Search for the Prince -- Encounter with King Shrenya -- Condemnation of Passion -- The Meeting with Aráda -- Victory Over Mara -- The Awakening. |
| Series Title: | Clay Sanskrit library, 33. |
| Other Titles: | Buddhacarita. |
| Responsibility: | by Aśvaghoṣa ; translated by Patrick Olivelle. |
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The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance. oWillis G. Regier, The Chronicle ReviewNo effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience. oThe Times Higher Education SupplementThe Clay Sanskrit Library represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot... Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes. oNew CriterionPublished in the geek-chic format. oBookForumVery few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs. oTricycleNow an ambitious new publishing project, the Clay Sanskrit Library brings together leading Sanskrit translators and scholars of Indology from around the world to celebrate in translating the beauty and range of classical Sanskrit literature... Published as smart green hardbacks that are small enough to fit into a jeans pocket, the volumes are meant to satisfy both the scholar and the lay reader. Each volume has a transliteration of the original Sanskrit text on the left-hand page and an English translation on the right, as also a helpful introduction and notes. Alongside definitive translations of the great Indian epics o 30 or so volumes will be devoted to the Maha*bharat itself o Clay Sanskrit Library makes available to the English-speaking reader many other delights: The earthy verse of Bhartri*hari, the pungent satire of Jayanta Bhatta and the roving narratives of Dandin, among others. All these writers belong properly not just to Indian literature, but to world literature. oLiveMint Read more...
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