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University of Calcutta. Journal of the Department of Letters

1925

the object of recognition) is the central point of the plot of the 4th 5th and 6th Acts and of the 7th Act to a little extent. [...] So that judging from the standpoint of the significance of the name in the development of the drama the true drama may be said to have no real value of the title. [...] In all the Trivandrum dramas in the prologue we do not get any description of the Kavya or any mention of the author thus pointing to the antiquity of the dramas. [...] Epigraphy has revealed to us volumes of texts where the pets or court-bards are over-fluent in their praise of kings and patrons to the extent of coparing the beams shooting forth like a current from the nails of the feet of their patrons to the holy stream of the Ganges! ( Vide Epigr. [...] So we will have to adjust the approximate age of the two poets in the light of critical history —the evidence of coins and inscriptions and the records of Chinese travellers and the like.
humanities general
Pages
339
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120022
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v unknown view
The Dramas of Bhasa
1-46 Jyotischandra Ghatak view
Linguistic Speculations of the Hindus
47-185 Prabhatchandra Chakravarti view
A Historical Study of the Terms Mahayana and Hinayana and the Origin of Mahayana Buddhism
45-193 R. Kimura view

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