SILVESTREM TENUI MUSAM MEDITARIS AVENA; Virgil
M A H F I L Volume VII______________Fall - Winter 1971__________Numbers 3 and 4
SANSKRIT ISSUE
Guest Editor: Barbara Stoler Miller CONTENTS
Foreword .............................. iii
A Note on Sanskrit Pronunciation e .................. iv
SANSKRIT RHETORIC AND POETIC ...__......... Vidya Niwas Misra 1
THE CREATIVE ROLE OF THE GODDESS VAC
IN THE RGVEDA .................. W. Norman Brown 19
VEDIC AND EPIC TRANSLATIONS ............. Leonard Nathan 29
MYTH AS LITERATURE IN ANCIENT INDIA: THE SAGA
OF SUKRACARYA ................. Robert P. Goldman 45
TRIJATA^S DREAM ..................... Ron Padgett 63
MALAVIM AND AGNIMITRA: A TRANSLATION OF
KALIDASA'S PLAY ................... Edwin Gerow 67
A NEW APPROACH TO_SANSKRIT TRANSLATION,
APPLIED TO KALIDASA'S KUMARASAMBHA VA
CANTO_VIII .............. Wendy Doniger O^laherty 129
SKETCH: KALIDASA'S SPRING ............... David Shapiro 143
SOME AFTERTHOUGHTS ON A PRODUCTION OF
BAUDHMANA'S THE HERMIT AND THE HARLOT ...... Carlo Coppola 145
THE HERMIT AND THE HARLOT ............ J.A.B. van Buitenen 149
THREE LOVE POEMS: TRANSLATIONS
AND ILLUSTRATIONS ............ P. Lal and K. K. Hebbar 167
THE FIFTY STANZAS OF A THIEF ............ Richard Gombrich 175
SONGS FROM JAYADEVA'S GITAGOVINDA ....... Barbara Stoler Miller 187
OBSCENITY IN SANSKRIT LITERATURE ........ J. Masson-Moussaieff 197
A JOTTING ON THE MIRROR: THOSE OF LADIES ........ Alex Wayman 209
NOTES ON RASA IN VEDIC AND BUDDHIST TEXTS ........ Adele Fiske 215
SOME SANSKRIT POETIC MOTIFS IN THE PRAKRIT
'^ATTASAI" ................... John T. Roberts 219
AN OLD GUJARATi DRAMATIC PRESENTATION ......... Ernest Bender 223
SANSKRIT LITERARY FORMS AND ORIYA
LITERATURE .............. Debi Prasanna Pattanayak 229
A BRAJ VERSION OF "THE BRAHMAN^ UNSUCCESSFUL
SACRIFICE" e .... ^ .... . . . . . . Margaret B. Riccardi 235
A NEPALI VERSION OF THE VETALAPANCAVIMSATI
STORY OF THE BRAHMAN ANDJIHE SNAKE . . . Theodore Riccardi, Jr. 241 A SANSKRIT TRANSLATION OF OlTANJALI REVIEWED ..... Usharbudh Arya 245 SANSKRIT COMPOSITIONS IN CARNATIC MUSIC ....... C.V. Narasimhan 251
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS ...................... 255
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