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Studies in Sanskrit Sahitya-Śästra One important feature of the papers presented in this collection is that they mainly deal with topics which have not yet received adequate scholarly attention which they deserve. In these papers an attempt is made to elucidate certain obscure and doubtful points of poetics by a comparative and critical study, or to throw fresh light on certain other problems, or to bring to light certain facts for the first time. No history of Sanskrit literature or work on Sanskrit poetics deals critically and exhaustively with topics like Plagiarism, Poetic conventions, Poetic truth, Intonation (Kaku) Sandhis in the Sanskrit drama or Prakrit Verses in Alamkara works.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
V. M. Kulkarni, Director, B. L. Institute of Indology, Patan, formerly Professor of Sanskrit and Prakrit (Maharashtra Educational Service, Class I) and Director of Languages, Maharashtra State, has taught Sanskrit and Prakrit Literature, Sanskrit Poetics and Aesthetics for several years. Besides contributing critical articles and notes to Encyclopaedias in English and Marathi he has published over eighty papers and critical reviews in various research Journals of repute.
As an Editor he has to his credit:
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(1) Spigārārṇavacandrika of Vijayavarni: A work dealing with Sanskrit poetics, critically edited on the basis of a very rare manuscript, published by Bharatiya Jnanapitha, Delhi.
(2) Jayadeva's
Gitagovinda with
hitherto unpublished commentary of King Mänänka, published by L. D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad.
