Congratulations, Andrew. Madhav
Madhav M. Deshpande Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India [Residence: Campbell, California, USA] On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM Andrew Ollett via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I am happy to announce the publication of a critical (and diplomatic) > edition, translation, and study of the only surviving work of poetics in > Prakrit, the *Alaṅkāradappaṇō*, published by UniorPress (part of its *Series > Minor*): > > *The Mirror of Ornaments (Alaṅkāradappaṇō): A Prakrit Work of Poetics* > http://www.fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fedoapress/catalog/book/616 > > The book is open access and freely downloadable. I argue that this work > (or one very similar to it) was one of the sources utilized by Bhāmaha in > his *Kāvyālaṅkāra*, usually considered one of the earliest works of > poetics properly speaking, and I will be interested to hear what the > *vihuaaṇa* (= *vibudhajana*) think about it. > > I also take this opportunity to thank the series editor, Francesco Sferra, > and several colleagues who helped to make the book much better than it > would otherwise have been (including Yigal Bronner and Csaba Dezső). > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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