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Sugata Saurabha - An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,598
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Sugata Saurabha - An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha (Hardcover, New): Chittadhar Hrdaya

Sugata Saurabha - An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha (Hardcover, New)

Chittadhar Hrdaya; Edited by Todd T. Lewis, Subarna Man Tuladhar

Series: Harvard Oriental Series

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This poem belongs of the little-known Newari (Nepal Bhasha) language and literature, specifically to its even less known Buddhist version. It is one of the very rare cases that works in Newari language appear outside Nepal.

In nineteen long cantos, the "Sugata Saurabha" tells of the life of the Buddha, following the traditional accounts, but situates it in the strongly local context of Newar and Nepali Buddhism. It emulates the classical (Kavya) style of the long-standing Indian tradition, and has been inspired by the 2,000-year-old Sanskrit poem, the "Buddhacarita," Consequently, the poet inserts stanzas composed in traditional classical Sanskrit meter, though written in polished Newari.

The poem was composed by the greatest modern writer in Newari language, Chittadhar Hrdaya (1906- 1982), while he was imprisoned by the autocratic strongly pro-Hindu Rana regime that governed Nepal from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

The poem is the best-known work of the flowering of modern Newari literature that emerged after the restrictions of the Rana regime were lifted in 1950.

General

Imprint: The Department Of Sanskrit And Indian Studies
Country of origin: United States
Series: Harvard Oriental Series
Release date: March 2008
First published: March 2008
Authors: Chittadhar Hrdaya
Editors: Todd T. Lewis • Subarna Man Tuladhar
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 51mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 847
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02712-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
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LSN: 0-674-02712-4
Barcode: 9780674027121

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