Śakuntalá; or, Śakuntalá recognized by the ring, the Devanágarí recension, ed. with tr. of the metrical passages, and notes by M. Williams |
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... Society of Germany ; Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford . SECOND EDITION . Oxford : AT THE CLARENDON PRESS . M.DCCC.LXXVI . [ All rights reserved . ] & 1 PREFACE . THE following pages are the result.
... Society of Germany ; Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford . SECOND EDITION . Oxford : AT THE CLARENDON PRESS . M.DCCC.LXXVI . [ All rights reserved . ] & 1 PREFACE . THE following pages are the result.
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... edition of the most celebrated drama of India's greatest dramatist . About a century has elapsed since Sir W. Jones discovered that there existed in India a number of Naṭakas or Sanskrit dramas , many of them of great antiquity ; some ...
... edition of the most celebrated drama of India's greatest dramatist . About a century has elapsed since Sir W. Jones discovered that there existed in India a number of Naṭakas or Sanskrit dramas , many of them of great antiquity ; some ...
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... edition of the Śakuntala was subsequently printed in Calcutta , also from Bengali MSS . and in Bengāli character , by Prema - candra , dated Śāka 1761 ( A.D. 1839 ) . Several editions of the Bengālī recension have been printed at ...
... edition of the Śakuntala was subsequently printed in Calcutta , also from Bengali MSS . and in Bengāli character , by Prema - candra , dated Śāka 1761 ( A.D. 1839 ) . Several editions of the Bengālī recension have been printed at ...
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... edition of which was published ( by W. H. Allen & Co. , 13 , Waterloo Place , London ) in 1872 . The great Indian dramatist only wrote two other dramas . Of the Vikramorvaśī , the twin play of the Śakuntala , two editions have appeared ...
... edition of which was published ( by W. H. Allen & Co. , 13 , Waterloo Place , London ) in 1872 . The great Indian dramatist only wrote two other dramas . Of the Vikramorvaśī , the twin play of the Śakuntala , two editions have appeared ...
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... edition I took care to avail myself of Dr. Boehtlingk's corrections of himself , and his after - thoughts at the end of his work , as well as of such critical remarks as coincided with my own views . Often working independently of him ...
... edition I took care to avail myself of Dr. Boehtlingk's corrections of himself , and his after - thoughts at the end of his work , as well as of such critical remarks as coincided with my own views . Often working independently of him ...
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