Book Review: Prekṣaṇīyam - Essays on Indian Classical Dance and Theatre (Part 1)
Prekṣaṇīyam is authored by Śatāvadhānī Dr. R Ganesh and translated to English with additional material by Arjun Bharadwaj. This is a book on the Essays o...
Prekṣaṇīyam is authored by Śatāvadhānī Dr. R Ganesh and translated to English with additional material by Arjun Bharadwaj. This is a book on the Essays o...
[Starting this Rāmanavami, every Friday, Prekshaa presents a condensed prose rendering of the Vālmīki-rāmāyaṇa based on the critically constituted text. We atte...
Cindu – The word cindu means to jump or to leap; in the Telugu language, the word is also used in the sense of overflowing, springing up and pouring out.&nbs...
Introduction dhyānābhyāsa-vaśīkṛtena manasā tannirguṇaṃ niṣkriyaṃ jyotiḥ kiñcana yogino yadi paraṃ paśyanti paśyantu te । asmākaṃ tu tadeva locana-camatkār...
88. Caurāparādhānmāṇḍavyanigraha-nyāya Māṇḍavya was punished for the crime committed by the thieves. The story of Māṇḍavya comes in the Ādi-parva of Mahābhārat...
Śrī Kṛṣna was satisfied with this entreaty; Arjuna had been put on the path; his internal transformation was complete. Bhagavān felt certain that Arjuna was rea...
ಆದಿಪ್ರಾಸದ ನಿರ್ಬಂಧ ಇಲ್ಲವಾದ ಬಳಿಕ ಮತ್ತೆ ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಶ್ಲೋಕ ಬರಬಹುದಿತ್ತು ಎಂಬ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಏಳಬಹುದು. ಇದಕ್ಕೂ ಕಾರಣವಿದೆ. ಆದಿಪ್ರಾಸ ಅಳಿಯುವ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಹಳಗನ್ನಡವಿರಲಿ, ನಡುಗನ್ನಡವೂ ಅ...
The daśa-rūpakas and many upa-rūpakas need to be staged using mārga-karaṇas, mārga-cārīs, and mārga-sthānakas; these have to come along with nṛtta-hastas as wel...
Here, by “divine eyes” we do not need to imagine a pair of extra-physical eyes with their own eyeballs and eyelids. It is enough to think that Bhagavān endowed...
ಕರ್ಷಣಜಾತಿಗಳು ಮಾತ್ರಾಜಾತಿಗಳಂತೆಯೇ ಏಕದೇಶಸ್ಥಿರವಾಗಿವೆ. ಈ ಸ್ಥಿರತೆ ಪದ್ಯಬಂಧಗಳ ಚಾಕ್ಷುಷರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿರದೆ ಶ್ರಾವಣರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಣಸಿಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಂದರೆ, ಕರ್ಷಣಜಾತಿಗಳ ಭಾಷಾಪದಗತಿ ಗದ್ಯಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಬಲು...
79. Ghaṭīyantra-nyāya For irrigating the fields in the villages there will be a contraption with a wheel fitted to the wells called ghatīyantra. Some of the cu...
Early next morning they heard a resounding thunder in the cloudless sky. When the sages turned to Divākaradeva questioningly, he said, ‘This is the sound made b...