An Introduction to Karpuramanjari, with Text and Hindi translation

25x15cm, x,218 pages., Binding corners bumped. Shaken. Series: Prakrit Jain Institute Research Publication Series, Vol. 11. Drama by Rajasekhara [ca. 880-ca. 920] ["Karpuramanjari has a very important place in the history of Indian drama. .it is a Sattaka which very closely imitates the Natika but which as a rule shuns the Pravesaka and the Viskambha in the organisation of the plot. Karpuramanjari is the first extant Sattaka & Rajasekhara's definition given in this play is the first extant definition of this form." - preface] .The English introduction runs pp 1-132; the Hindi translation pp 135-211. Contents: Introduction: Backround; Concepts of Sattaka & Its Aesthetic value; the Prologue of KM; On Poetry: Constitutents of Poetry; The Beautiful; The Figures of Speech; On Love: Kama, the God of Love; The Erotic Feeling, Kaula Influence; Summing Up; Karpuamanjari (Text). Rubbed. Binding heavily rubbed & stained. Fair condition.