Lokaprakasa by Ksemendra with the commentary of Sahaja Bhatta, Volume 1 (Hardcover)

The Lokaprakasa by well-known Kashmirian author Ksemendra (fl. 1050 CE) is a unique Sanskrit text that deals with details of public administration, from the king down to the village level. It includes private sale and mortgage documents as well as marriage contracts-documents that are little attested outside medieval Kashmir. In the first decade of the 20th century, famous explorer and Kashmiri specialist Sir M. Aurel Stein asked his friend, learned Kashmiri Pandit Sahaja Bhatta, to prepare an edition of this significant text with commentary explaining many otherwise obscure terms. The manuscript was originally projected to be published by Stein and Charles Lanman in the early 1930s, in a facsimile edition. Long lost, the manuscript has been recovered in the Societe Asiatique in Paris and is now published here. The text fills a large gap in our knowledge of private life and public administration in medieval India and will greatly interest Sanskritists and historians alike.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Department of South Asian Studies
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Harvard Oriental Series
Release date:	February 2019
Authors:	K semendra
Commentary by:	Sahaja Bhatta
Editors:	Michael Witzel
Introduction by:	P Filliozat
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	548
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-98038-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-674-98038-7
Barcode:	9780674980389

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