On a New Edition and Translation of Kṣemendra’s Narmamālā

✍ Scribed by Ghosh, Abhijit

• Book ID: 119942637
• Publisher: Akademie Verlag
• Year: 2012
• Weight: 351 KB
• Volume: 107
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-5383
• DOI: 10.1524/olzg.2012.0040

✦ Synopsis

32 there: "In short, the DO is indeed a didactic poem of a sort; but it is simultaneously, if not primarily, a work of humor and entertainment, and should be accepted as such." remark on p. XXV that the NM's "grammar is correct" may be disputed; for ungrammatical syntax cf., e.g., NM 1,49c, 1,79ab. As to metre, Kṣemendra often disregards the dictum śloke ṣaṣṭhaṃ guru jñeyaṃ pañcamaṃ laghu sarvatra, e.g. NM 1,78c, 1,83c, 1,86c, 2,56d (possibly). 3 The book has a nice get-up. But it was not well proofread; many misprints and lack of uniformity