Indira Viswanathan Peterson provides an introduction to the Sanskrit court epic (mahākāvya), an important genre in classical Indian poetry, and the first stud

2,500 years of India’s dazzling literary tradition, translated from a wide range of classical languages, and introduced by an award-winning poet. Romantic gha

"Regardless of terminology, the use of padya and gadya in Telugu literary works is invariably linked to Nannaya (early to mid-11th century), traditionally consi

"The first major scholarly history of the important South Indian mural tradition in the early modern period, and a reconception of their role in negotiating the

At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new s