Inspired Poetry: Śāntākaragupta’s Play on the Legend of Prince Sudhana and the Kinnarī
A fragment of a play written on the Buddhist legend of prince Sudhana and the kinnarī has been microfilmed by the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. It was probably written at the end of the eleventh century in Bengal by a Buddhist scholar called Śāntākaragupta. The present article contai...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2014
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Indo-Iranian journal
Année: 2014, Volume: 57, Numéro: 1/2, Pages: 73-104 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Śāntākaragupta
Sudhana
kinnarī
Sanskrit drama
Bengal
Nepalese manuscript
intertextuality
textual criticism
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| Résumé: | A fragment of a play written on the Buddhist legend of prince Sudhana and the kinnarī has been microfilmed by the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. It was probably written at the end of the eleventh century in Bengal by a Buddhist scholar called Śāntākaragupta. The present article contains a critical edition and an English translation of the fragment, as well as an analysis of the intertextuality of the play and especially the literary influences that shaped the author’s poetic diction. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8536 |
| Contient: | In: Indo-Iranian journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15728536-05701016 |