Vol. 15 (2013): History and Society as Depicted in Indian Literature and Art

Edited by Lidia Sudyka and Anna Nitecka

Published: 2013-12-21

Front Matter

• Front Matter

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Introduction

• Introduction

  Lidia Sudyka, Anna Nitecka

  VII-XVII

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Articles

• The Debate on Asceticism as a Permanent Choice of Life: Some Late Clues from Mahākāvyas

  Tiziana Pontillo

  1-21

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• Political Metaphors in the Mahākāvya: The Conceptual Metaphor the state is the human body in Māgha’s Śiśupālavadha

  Anna Trynkowska

  23-36

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• Women’s Town—Ghost Town A Picture of a Dying City in the Raghuvaṃśa

  Tomasz Winiarski

  37-66

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• Sanskritization of Regional History: A Study in the Historiography of Atula’s Mūṣikavaṃśa

  Rajendran Chettiarthodi

  67-80

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• A War Expedition or a Pilgrimage? Acyutarāya’s Southern Campaign as Depicted in the Acyutarāyābhyudaya

  Lidia Sudyka

  81-100

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• Prisons in Sanskrit Literature: A Comparison of Arthaśāstra and Vāgmaṇḍanaguṇadūtakāvya Descriptions

  Lidia Szczepanik

  101-118

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• Embracing Simultaneity: The Story of Śleṣa in South Asia

  Yigal Bronner

  119-141

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• Kavirahasya, “The Secret of Poets”: Rājaśekhara’s View on Poetry

  Katarzyna Pażucha

  143-166

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• Ritual Worship of the Narasiṁhamantra as Depicted in the Sātvatasaṁhitā

  Ewa Dębicka-Borek

  167-207

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• The Topos of the Four Ages of Humankind and the Question of Rāma’s Divinity

  Mariola Pigoniowa

  209-236

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• Following the Path of One’s Duty: Tulsīdās’s Rāmcaritmānas as a Socio-Cultural Code

  Danuta Stasik

  237-248

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• History of a Polyglossic Literary Culture: On the Decline of the History of Hindi Literature

  Piotr Borek

  249-264

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• Tyrants, Villains, Belles and Saints: Stereotyped Portraits of Muslim Characters in Early Hindi Novels

  Tatiana Dubyanskaya

  265-286

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• “The Double Curse”—a Dalit Woman Autobiography in Hindi by Kausalya Baisantri

  Monika Browarczyk

  287-305

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• Royal Attributes as Reflected in Caṅkam Poetry

  Alexander Dubyanskiy

  307-324

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• Old Tamil Kings and Chieftains as Described in Sangam Literature

  Jaroslav Vacek

  325-354

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• Tirumaṅkaiyāḻvār’s Maṭal Poems and Social History of Early Medieval South India

  Jacek Woźniak

  355-373

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Reviews

• Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India. By Daud Ali. Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx + 296 pp. $ 30.00 (hardcover)

  Piotr Borek

  377-384

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• Rasāla Books (www.rasalabooks.com)

  Lidia Szczepanik

  385-387

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Back Matter

• Back Matter

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