Transliteration, Ecology and other Essays on Indology
Book Specification
| Item Code: | IDE931 |
| Author: | Satyanarayan Chakraborty |
| Publisher: | Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2001 |
| Pages: | 221 |
| Cover: | Hardcover |
| Other Details | 8.5" X 5.75" |
| Weight | 370 gm |
Book Description
This is a collection of twenty seven essays, mainly Indological. Many of these essays have been published in research journals of Felicitation/Commemoration volumes. A few of them have either been revised and on some occasions enlarged with additional information. The subject matter of these articles are varied. Thus, problems of transliteration for bibliography, concern of ecological embalance, Tagore's translations of kalidasa's works, evaluation of Kalidasa by Tagore, Bankim Chandra, Madhusudan, Haraprasad Shastri and other Bengalee critics, Citramimamsa, different aspects of Kalidasa's Abhijnana-sakuntala, Bhita Medallions and the like- are the topics here. Last five articles are written in Sanskrit. In one of them right to die with dignity as sanctioned in Indian scriptures has been discussed. It is expected that the collection of essays would be well received and appreciated by all, particularly by scholars of Sanskrit.
About the Author :
Dr. Chakraborty has to his credit fifteen books composed/critically edited. A few deserving mention are; The Citramimamsa of Appaya Diksita - A Study, Trayee (an analysis of Appaya Diksita's works on poetics in Sanskrit), Abhijana - sakuntla (critically edited with exposition and the commentary of Raghavabhatta), Meghaduta-O-Saudamani (critically edited with exposition and commentaries), Canakya-niti sastra samiksa.
Many of this articles have been published in research journals of felicitation / commemoretation volumes like Visvesvaranand Indological Journey, Asiatic Society Journal, Bharatiya Vidya, Samvid, Sanskrit-Sahitya-Parisat-Patrika, Rabindra Bharati University Journal, Journal of the Department of Sanskrit (R.B.U), Prof. S. Rath Felicitation Volume and others.
Professor Chakraborty is the consulting editor of Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh Project (Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka) and the Sectional editor of the Visvakosa (published in 23 vols). The autor participated / chaired sessions on a number of occasions in All-India Oriental Conference, International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (Hongkong, Budapest, Toranto), World Sanskrit Conferences (Benaras, Melbourne, Bangalore, Turin) International Conference on S.E. Asia (Bangkok). He visited Bangladesh and Nepal several times for lectures at different Institutions.
| 1. | Problems of Transliteration in Preparing Bibliography | 1 |
| 2. | Interchange of Personal Pronouns in Kalidasa's Dramas | 8 |
| 3. | Smrtisastras on Environment Pollution | 23 |
| 4. | Save Trees - A Call by the Authors of Puranas | 31 |
| 5. | A Critical Analysis of the Bengali Renderings of Kalidasa's Works by Rabindranath Tagore | 42 |
| 6. | Tagore's Views on the Abhijnana-sakuntala in Pracina Sahitya | 57 |
| 7. | Role of a Few Bird-episodes in Some Sanskrit Court epics and Dramas | 66 |
| 8. | Character of Kaikeyi as Depicted in the Ramayana: Changing Phases | 79 |
| 9. | Abhijnana-sakuntala and Bankimchandra | 89 |
| 10. | Appreciation of Kalidasa by Michael Madhusudan Dutta | 95 |
| 11. | Some Observations on the Portrait of Sakuntala in Act VI of the Abhijnana-sakuntala | 107 |
| 12. | Some Considerations of the Act III of the Abhijnana-sakuntala in Bengal Recension | 111 |
| 13. | Study in the Vikramorvasiya in Tagore Family | 120 |
| 14. | Folk-elements in the Abhijnana-sakuntala | 132 |
| 15. | Appreciation of Kalidasa by the 20th Century Bengalee Writers - A Critique | 138 |
| 16. | Position of Sanskrit in West Bengal: Some Wrong Ideas and their Consequences | 145 |
| 17. | Teacher-taught Relation in the Light of Manusamhita II | 149 |
| 18. | Some Interesting References to Indian History in the Bhavisya Purana | 154 |
| 19. | On Appaya Diksita's Reference to a 'Kavyaloka' | 160 |
| 20. | Probable Spurious Portions in Appaya Diksita's Citramimamsa | 166 |
| 21. | Critical Analysis of Kalidasa - literature by MM. Haraprasad Shastri | 175 |
| 22. | Bhita Medallion and Bhita Plaque: Date of Kalidasa and the Bengal Recension of the Abhijnana-sakuntala | 182 |
| 23. | Dharmasastra Aathmahannaanumotanam | 188 |
| 24. | 'Prachin-Sahitya' Abhidaan-Shakunthalam | 195 |
| 25. | Bhandhe Bharatamaataram | 201 |
| 26. | 'Ye Ke Chatmahono Zaana:' : Ke Te? | 209 |
| 27. | Kaakaa Shri Golakanysyoth Bhavaanveshnam | 216 |
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