[INDOLOGY] Texts with different topics by one author

Peter Wyzlic pwyzlic at uni-bonn.de
Thu Nov 5 11:18:17 UTC 2015


> Am 05.11.2015 um 11:08 schrieb <hellwig7 at gmx.de> <hellwig7 at gmx.de>:

> I am looking for Sanskrit authors who have written about many (>=3) different topics or in many (>=3) different genres (e.g., poetry, narrative, philosophical, scientific, ...); alternatively for voluminous texts by one author that cover such different topics in separate chapters (i.e., the thematic strata should be easily separable).
> 
> Further requirements:
> 1) Authorship of their works should be consolidated in Indological research.
> 2) Texts should not be too short.
> 3) Texts should not be collections of former works or of citations only, but "really" be written by these authors.
> 4) The older, the better!
> 5) Texts should be edited or - even better - already digitized.
> 
> The first (and actually only) author that came to my mind is Kshemendra. Do you have any other ideas? Any feedback is highly appreciated.
> 

Kalikālasarvajña Hemacandra might be one of those authors.

All the best
Peter Wyzlic

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