Introduction to the Kathāmṛta – Part 1 – Kathāmṛta and Kathā-sarit-sāgara
कवीन्द्रमानसाम्भोजनिवासभ्रमरीं नमः। देवीं सहृदयानन्दशब्दमूर्तिं सरस्वतीं॥ (सोमदेवः) श्रीरामायणभारतबृहत्कथानां कवीन्नमस्कुर्मः। त्रिस्रोता इव सरसा सरस्वती...
कवीन्द्रमानसाम्भोजनिवासभ्रमरीं नमः। देवीं सहृदयानन्दशब्दमूर्तिं सरस्वतीं॥ (सोमदेवः) श्रीरामायणभारतबृहत्कथानां कवीन्नमस्कुर्मः। त्रिस्रोता इव सरसा सरस्वती...
Kirīṭa-pati Veṅkaṭācārya (18th–19th cen. CE) was a great scholar of several śāstras and was a champion of Viśiṣṭādvaita philosophy. He lived in Sura-pura, a pro...
ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸನ ಯುದ್ಧವರ್ಣನೆಯಲ್ಲಿನ ಕಲ್ಪನಾಶಕ್ತಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಯುದ್ಧದ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಅವನ ಅಭಿಮತ ಮಹಾಭಾರ...
Acharya’s Singing After a few months (since our stay at the Vasanta Mahal), Vidvān Mysore Vasudevacharya’s vocal concert was organised at the reseidence of Dr....
Renowned as a doctor, a compassionate man, and an extremely capable surgeon in the old Mysore area, Rao Bahadur Dr. T V Arumugam Mudaliar was a contemporary of...
Yayāti was the tenth in the line of descendants from Dakṣa-prajāpati; his son was Pūru. Further in his lineage Duṣyanta was born. The preceptor of the Asuras,...
Lolla Lakṣmī-dhara (15th–16th cen. CE) was a scholar-poet in the court of Kṛṣṇa-deva-rāya. He is well-known as the author of Lakṣmī-dharā, arguably the best ava...
Introduction to books I have mentioned above that Ramanna made me read Kannada Rāmāyaṇa, Bhārata and other books regularly. Bhāgavata and Ranganātha-rāmāyaṇa -...
Naiṣadhīya-carita is considered the touchstone of scholarly poetry. Śrī-harṣa (12th cen. CE), its author, takes delight in proclaiming that he composed this wor...
অর্জুনকে শোক থেকে বিরত থাকার জন্য অনুরোধ করে কৃষ্ণ গীতার সূচনা করেন – “জীবিত বা মৃত, কারোর জন্য অশ্রুপাত করনা” (ভ. গী. ২.১১)। এবং তিনি গীতার পরিসমাপ্তিও করেন অর...