Bhatti’s Poem: The Death of Ravana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bhatti’s Poem: The Death of Ravana write by Bhaṭṭi. This book was released on 2009-04. Bhatti’s Poem: The Death of Ravana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To the dry bones of grammar Bhatti gave juicy flesh in his poem, telling the Indian story in Sanskrit. This book is both a poetic retelling of Rama's adventures, and a compendium of grammatical and rhetorical examples for students.
Bhatti’s Poem: The Death of Ravana
Bhatti’s Poem: The Death of Ravana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bhatti’s Poem: The Death of Ravana write by . This book was released on 2016-10-01. Bhatti’s Poem: The Death of Ravana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To the dry bones of grammar Bhatti gave juicy flesh in his poem, telling the greatest Indian story in elegant Sanskrit. Composed in the fourth century CE, in South India, ”Bhatti’s Poem: The Death of Rávana” is both a poetic retelling of Rama’s adventures, and a compendium of grammatical and rhetorical examples for students. Bhatti’s study aid to Pánini’s groundbreaking grammatical treatise, the “Eight Books,” gives examples disguised as the gripping, morally improving “Ramáyana” story. In Bhatti’s own words: “This composition is a lamp to those whose eyes have language as their goal.” Tradition has it that an elephant ambled between Bhatti and his pupils, interrupting their outdoors grammar class. By Hindu law this intrusion canceled class for a year. Lest time be lost, Bhatti composed his poem to teach grammar without textbooks. Ever since, “The Death of Rávana” has been one of the most popular poems in Sanskrit literature.
Mahabharata Books Ten and Eleven
Mahabharata Books Ten and Eleven - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mahabharata Books Ten and Eleven write by . This book was released on 2017-04-01. Mahabharata Books Ten and Eleven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The great war of the Maha bharata is over. Or is it? This is a single extended family wracked in conflict. Both sides succumbed to treachery. Ashva tthaman, the young leader of the three survivors on the losing side, is incensed at his father’s murder. He returns after dark to the now sleeping encampment. The sacrifice of the unsuspecting champions, the "Dead of Night," ensues. The five sons of Pandu have escaped. After a final confrontation, a missile crisis, Ashva tthaman concedes defeat but redirects his missile into the wombs of the victors’ women. They miscarry, and cannot hope for more children. Now the survivors, victors and vanquished, must struggle to comprehend their loss. "The Women" of both sides are confronted by their men’s mangled corpses in a masterpiece of horror and pathos. But their potent curses must be curbed to usher in a new era. Maha bharata Books Ten and Eleven give voice to the vanquished, to the psychology of loss and the conflicting desires for understanding and revenge.
Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives (Volume 1)
Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives (Volume 1) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives (Volume 1) write by Aryashura. This book was released on 2017-04-01. Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives (Volume 1) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Garland of Past Lives is a collection of thirty four stories depicting the miraculous deeds performed by the Buddha in his previous rebirths. Composed in the fourth century C.E. by the Buddhist monk Aryashura, the text’s accomplished artistry led Indian aesthetic theorists to praise its elegant mixture of verse and prose. The twenty stories in this first volume deal primarily with the virtues of giving and morality. Ascetics sacrifice their lives for hungry tigers, kings open their veins for demons to drink their blood, helmsmen steer their crew through perilous seas, and quail chicks quench forest fires by proclaiming words of truth. The experience is intended to arouse astonishment in the audience, inspiring devotion, through the future Buddha’s transcendence of conventional norms in his quest to acquire enlightenment and save the world from suffering. The importance of such stories of past lives in traditional Buddhist culture, throughout Asia and up to today, cannot be overestimated.
Seven Hundred Elegant Verses
Seven Hundred Elegant Verses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seven Hundred Elegant Verses write by Govardhana. This book was released on 2017-12-01. Seven Hundred Elegant Verses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Go·várdhana composed his "Seven Hundred Elegant Verses" in Sanskrit in the twelfth century CE, the title suggested that this was a response to the 700 verses in the more demotic Prakrit language traditionally attributed to King Hala, composed almost a thousand years earlier. Both sets of poems were composed in the arya metre. Besides being the name of a metre, in Sanskrit arya means a noble or elegant lady, and Go·várdhana wished to reflect and appeal to a sophisticated culture. These poems each consist of a single stanza, almost as condensed and allusive as a Japanese haiku. They cover the gamut of human life and emotion, though the favorite topic is love in all its aspects. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
