D D Kosambi Translator (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1970. Hardcover in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Fine copy. Cloth bright and unfaded. Gilt sharp and unworn. Corners square. Spine straight and firm. Binding tight and sound. No inscriptions, no underlining, no marginalia. Pages clean, fresh and un-creased. A notably well preserved example. Avimaraka : Love's Enchanted World presents the Sanskrit drama Avimaraka in English translation, with introduction and scholarly apparatus. The play, attributed in some traditions to Bhasa, was first brought to modern attention after the discovery of manuscripts in South India in 1912. It relates the tale of a young outcaste who, through magical intervention, enters the inner apartments of a princess and remains concealed there for a year. The tone is light, playful and in places audacious, combining romance, social inversion and courtly intrigue. This edition includes an informative introduction on authorship and dating, discussion of the Bhasa corpus, and notes elucidating mythological, linguistic and dramaturgical features. A useful copy for students of classical Indian drama, Sanskrit literature, comparative theatre, and the history of early South Asian textual transmission. An increasingly uncommon title in this condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xxi, 151 pages : 23 cm. English translation from a Sanskrit text.