Dear Colleagues,
I should like to bring a new publication to your attention.
Kindly regarding,
Walter Slaje
Bollée, Willem: Bāṇa’s Harṣacarita in Keywords: Based on Cowell &
Thomas' Translation (= Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis, Band
16). Halle an der Saale: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, 2020, 231
S., ISBN: 978-3-86977-220-2, EAN: 9783869772202
Bāṇa is considered
the foremost writer of Sanskrit prose and one of “the brightest stars in
the galaxy of Sanskrit poets” (Kane) and is well-known for his use of
obscure words and rare meanings of common words a good number of which
have not been recorded in our standard Sanskrit dictionaries. In his
famous Harṣacarita he relates the deeds of King Harṣavardhana (606–647
CE), his patron. It is praised as “a veritable mirror of the many-sided
culture as it had evolved during Gupta times” and as “a perennial spring
spurting valuable facts about the cultural history of ancient India”
(Agrawala).
The late Professor Willem Bollée (1927–2020) has prepared
an index of words and notions of the Harṣacarita with a view to
unclosing the wealth of cultural information contained in this
masterpiece of Bāṇa. He has released the present edition for printing.
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