Inspired Poetry: Śāntākaragupta's Play on the Legend of Prince Sudhana and the Kinnarī

A fragment of a play written on the Buddhist legend of prince Sudhana and the kinnarī has been microfilmed by the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. It was probably written at the end of the eleventh century in Bengal by a Buddhist scholar called Śāntākaragupta. The present article contai...

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Published in:Indo-Iranian journal 2014, Vol.57 (1-2), p.73-104
Main Author: Dezső, Csaba
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:A fragment of a play written on the Buddhist legend of prince Sudhana and the kinnarī has been microfilmed by the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. It was probably written at the end of the eleventh century in Bengal by a Buddhist scholar called Śāntākaragupta. The present article contains a critical edition and an English translation of the fragment, as well as an analysis of the intertextuality of the play and especially the literary influences that shaped the author's poetic diction.
ISSN:0019-7246
1572-8536
DOI:10.1163/15728536-05701016