The Ocean Of The Rivers Of Story: V. 2
by Somadeva , James Mallinson and Somadeva Suri
FORMAT: Hardback
ISBN: 9780814795583
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Product Details
ISBN: 9780814795583
Category: Classical, Early & Medieval
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 2009-01-15
Series: Clay Sanskrit Library
Publisher: New York University Press
Country of origin: USA
Pages: 650
Pagination: 650 pages
Dimensions (mm): 163 x 109 x 28
Weight: 408g
The Ocean Of The Rivers Of Story: V. 2
The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance. --Willis G. Regier, The Chronicle ReviewNo effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience. --The Times Higher Education SupplementThe Clay Sanskrit Library represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot.... Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes. --New CriterionPublished in the geek-chic format. --BookForumVery few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs. --TricycleRama Beyond Price, a dramatized remake of the Ram