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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... India's greatest dramatist . About a century has elapsed since Sir W. Jones discovered that there existed in India a ... Indian poet . Indeed , no composition of Kālidāsa displays more the richness and fertility of his poetical genius ...
... India's greatest dramatist . About a century has elapsed since Sir W. Jones discovered that there existed in India a ... Indian poet . Indeed , no composition of Kālidāsa displays more the richness and fertility of his poetical genius ...
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... Indians , the people from whom perhaps all the cultivation of the human race has been derived , plays were known ... Indian poetry , observes : ' The name of Kalidasa has been frequently and early celebrated among the western nations ...
... Indians , the people from whom perhaps all the cultivation of the human race has been derived , plays were known ... Indian poetry , observes : ' The name of Kalidasa has been frequently and early celebrated among the western nations ...
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... India , where the great demand has produced copyists without scholarship , who have faithfully tran- scribed what they did not understand , and , therefore , could not designedly alter . On the other hand , the copyists in Bengal have ...
... India , where the great demand has produced copyists without scholarship , who have faithfully tran- scribed what they did not understand , and , therefore , could not designedly alter . On the other hand , the copyists in Bengal have ...
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... Indian dramatist only wrote two other dramas . Of the Vikramorvaśī , the twin play of the Śakuntala , two editions have appeared on the Continent ; one at Bonn , by Lenz , and a more perfect one at St. Petersburg , by Bollensen : an ...
... Indian dramatist only wrote two other dramas . Of the Vikramorvaśī , the twin play of the Śakuntala , two editions have appeared on the Continent ; one at Bonn , by Lenz , and a more perfect one at St. Petersburg , by Bollensen : an ...
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... India , numbered 2696 . 3. A MS . from the Taylor Collection , and therefore from Western India , numbered 1858 , dated Śāka 1734 . All these belong to the India Office Library , and represent the three Indian Presidencies respectively ...
... India , numbered 2696 . 3. A MS . from the Taylor Collection , and therefore from Western India , numbered 1858 , dated Śāka 1734 . All these belong to the India Office Library , and represent the three Indian Presidencies respectively ...
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