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The present book contains the entire Sanskrit text of Haribhatta’s Jatakamala (ca. AD 400), as far as it has been preserved in a few manuscripts presently accessible to us. Haribhatta’s work belongs to the Buddhist genre of “Garlands of... more
The visit of Shivaji Bhosle at Aurangzeb's court in 1666 is a famous subject of modern historical and popular accounts. A contemporary relation of this event is to be found in vernacular poetry, which according to the Western... more
This article is self-consciously framed as a hypothesis, a suggestion of how we might go about the work of understanding Kalhaṇa’s Rājataraṅgiṇī (RT), as well as certain other works of Kashmirian Sanskrit. I propose that Kalhaṇa’s poem be... more
The present Chapter discusses two cases of adaptive reuse of religio-philosophical ideas and text passages from the Pātañjalayogaśāstra (“The Authoritative Expo-sition of Yoga by Patañjali,” PYŚ) in a work of high-class poetry, i.e. in... more
La tesi (triennale) si prefigge un confronto socio-letterario tra il mondo greco-latino e quello sanscrito sul tema amoroso, nello specifico tra gli "epigrammi" indiani di Amaru e quelli greci della Antologia Palatina (libri V e XII). Si... more
Contained in: Yigal Bronner, David Shulman and Gary Tubb, eds., Kâvya, Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a New History of Sanskrit Literature, Oxford University Press (Oxford 2014), pp. 563-608.
Transgressive Śaivite Practices in Early Works of Sanskrit and Prakrit Poetry. A cognitive literary study. This study - written in German language - is focused on literary representations of fictional śaiva ascetics in six different... more
This is NOT Sanskrit restoration. Real one! Based on Sanskrit manuscript!
A short piece introducing Dāmodaragupta's C8th verse novel, the Kuṭṭanīmata, to a general readership. This is the version that was originally submitted to the literary magazine The Equator Line in August 2014. A version of this piece was... more
The Jain monk Jinaprabhasūri (1261-1333) was one of the most prolific intellectuals of early fourteenth-century India. This article analyzes one citrakāvya ('image-poem') stotra (hymn) and two ṣaḍbhāṣā (six-language) stotras in light of... more
A Bacchanal in Heaven and Additional Specimens from Maṅkha- The volume contains five Sargas (2-3, 14-15, 25) of Maṅkha’s Śrīkaṇṭhacarita (c. AD 1144), re-edited in Sanskrit and accompanied by an annotated German translation on facing... more
Der Weg zur Befreiung. Das Sechste Buch. Das Buch über das Nirvāṇa. 1. Teil: Kapitel 1–119. Übersetzung von Roland Steiner. (Anonymus Casmiriensis: Mokṣopāya. Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe. Herausgegeben unter der Leitung von Walter... more
One of the prominent features of Indian poetry is represented by its extensive use of figures of speech (alaṃkāras). The most common among these figures are based on the association of two different images, which are compared with one... more
This article aims to explore the new poetical strategy devised by the famous poet Aśvaghoṣa (2nd CE), a Brahmin converted to Buddhism, in order to promote the Buddhist doctrine: his works represent that cultural syncretism, which was... more
This paper is focused on a couple of apparently contradictory Buddhacarita (Bcar) passages. On the one hand, there is the attribution of the pre-classical pattern of constituting kings in the sacrificial arena, implying a cyclical... more
The Padyacūḍāmaṇi is a Sanskrit mahākāvya narrating the life and feats of the “historical” Buddha. Its dating and place of origin are uncertain, and nothing is known about its author, Buddhaghoṣa (merely a namesake of the celebrated... more
In my current project, I explore an intricate tension between ethic and aesthetic in the Kṛṣṇa bhakti tradition by focusing on the Ujjvalanīlamaṇi of Rūpa Gosvāmī, who established Bengali Vaiṣṇava aesthetics in the sixteenth century.... more
In the fairly late daśāvatāra lists enumerating Viṣṇu’s ten ‘canonical’ descents among the myriads which are believed to happen time and again, two Rāmas consistently occupy the sixth and seventh place, to wit Rāma of the Bhṛgu family,... more
The Caurapañcāśikā is a short Sanskrit poem about remembered love. It can, however, be read as a poem about poetry: its ascription to the poet Bilhaṇa, the stories about its composition, and the choice of metaphors in the text invite us... more
Anand Amaladass, "The Concept of Vyutpatti in Indian Aesthetics: Does Aesthetic Delight Bring about a Change in the Person Experiencing it?", in "Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunde Asiens" 36 (1992): 261-271
One of the central debates that feature in any discussion of the history of the Caitanya sampradāya is whether Caitanya Mahāprabhu can be placed in the Mādhva paramparā i.e. the disciplic line of succession followed in the Brahma... more
The Buddhaghoṣa or Buddhaghoṣācārya treated here is a poet of unknown date known for being the author of the Padyacūḍāmaṇi (The Crest-Jewel of Verses), a Sanskrit mahākāvya consisting of 645 verses divided into ten sargas (cantos).
Buddhaghoṣa’s Padyacūḍāmaṇi is a medieval Sanskrit mahākāvya telling the story of the life of Siddhārtha. Surprisingly enough, the influence exerted on it by its famous predecessor, Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita, is marginal, if any. As a... more
The Padyacūḍāmaṇi is a Sanskrit kāvya poem on the life of the Buddha, from his staying in Tuṣita heaven to his birth and life on earth as prince Siddhārtha, up to his attainment of Enlightnement. The poem is puzzling under many aspects:... more
Nous poursuivrons d'abord notre révision de l'édition de la grande inscription sanskrite du Mébon oriental (K. 528). Cette année, nous étudierons le texte à partir de la stance 122.
Interview on Indian National TV Doordarshan News, programme 'Vartavali', speaking on Sanskrit, Kashmir and Indian history-writing:
Watch out, Pun! Śleṣa in Brajbhasha Courtly Literature* SUMMARY: The paper examines several instances of the use of śleṣa in a 17 th-century Braj poem commissioned by Shivaji Bhosle and composed in the Deccan. The subject of analysis is... more
A Story of two friends who stay in hostels for their study and a mysterious event happened in their life accidently. Such a storyline is prescribed here by a short story.
Around the second century of our era, kāvya steps out from the shadows. What was kāvya at this early moment? What ties together the kāvya produced within the Kuṣāṇa empire in North India, in Sanskrit, with that produced within the... more
The Raghuvaṃśa is as a gallery of portraits of kings, all of them –but the last– encomiastic in tone. Taking all these portraits together, it stands out that Kālidāsa’s ‘ideal ruler’ is a very complex character, who is supposed to be... more