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

View 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

Introduction

  • Introduction

    Lidia Sudyka, Anna Nitecka
    VII-XVII
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.01

Articles

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

    Tiziana Pontillo
    1-21
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.02

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

    Anna Trynkowska
    23-36
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.03

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

    Tomasz Winiarski
    37-66
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.04

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

    Rajendran Chettiarthodi
    67-80
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.05

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

    Lidia Sudyka
    81-100
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.06

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

    Lidia Szczepanik
    101-118
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.07

  • Embracing Simultaneity: The Story of Śleṣa in South Asia

    Yigal Bronner
    119-141
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.08

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

    Katarzyna Pażucha
    143-166
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.09

  • Ritual Worship of the Narasiṁhamantra as Depicted in the Sātvatasaṁhitā

    Ewa Dębicka-Borek
    167-207
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.10

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

    Mariola Pigoniowa
    209-236
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.11

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

    Danuta Stasik
    237-248
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.12

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

    Piotr Borek
    249-264
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.13

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

    Tatiana Dubyanskaya
    265-286
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.14

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

    Monika Browarczyk
    287-305
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.15

  • Royal Attributes as Reflected in Caṅkam Poetry

    Alexander Dubyanskiy
    307-324
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.16

  • Old Tamil Kings and Chieftains as Described in Sangam Literature

    Jaroslav Vacek
    325-354
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.17

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

    Jacek Woźniak
    355-373
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.18

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
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.19

  • Rasāla Books (www.rasalabooks.com)

    Lidia Szczepanik
    385-387
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.20

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